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Just mentioned this piece on air, in relation to Vance’s attacks on the media: they not only try to create a narrative while facts are being determined, they then use that narrative to cast conflicting facts as untrustworthy. www.pbump.net/o/trumpism-d...

pbump.netTrumpism depends on the fog of incomplete informationOn Thursday morning, multiple major news outlets published analyses of videos from the killing of Renee Good by federal officials in Minneapolis. The New York Times. The Washington Post. CNN. Each nea...

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They lie so serially that it feels beyond time it is turned back on journalists, “how do you let guy who baldfacedly publicly said he would lie to push a narrative, say this kind of stuff unchallenged? Just what is it that you think your job is?”

"[The] standard of evidence used by news outlets is stricter than the one used by a layperson" This is an especially useful point, in that it's the practical definition of what sets "genuine" (for want of a better word) news outlets apart from the wannabes.