- Over at The Atlantic, McKay Coppins has a lengthy new article that's raising a lot of eyebrows in D.C., The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President. Coppins is a good journalist and makes a good effort to get inside the online and social media efforts in the Trump organization.
- But instead of self-examination and taking stock of their copious failures, many in the media have chosen to blame Trump and suggest his supporters are victims of disinformation, instead of winning back the trust of readers who rightly feel their opinions are not accurately reflected and their issues unfairly covered.
- Not long after Trump's election, the blogger Allahpundit no big fan of Trump, for what it's worth made the following observation: American politics increasingly feels like a novel whose events are retold by two unreliable narrators, Trump being one and the media being the other.
- Of course, in a perfect world, voters shouldn't have to choose between two unreliable narrators. But despite their obvious frustration in the Trump era, the media can't ultimately control what comes out of Trump or any other politician's mouth.
- If many people in this country have to choose between Trump and his slanderous exaggeration of unsympathetic Northam remarks, and a media that will help downplay the moral horror of infanticide, and engage in gross partisan double standards about racism and who gets accused of sexual assault, don't act surprised when large numbers of Americans decide Trump is the lesser of two evils.
- Sure, we can and absolutely should be clear that Northam did not execute a baby. But he did advocate killing infants born alive, and when Northam's horrifying comments touched off a political scandal implicating the state's top three political officials, the media committed metaphorical murder of its own.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/10/if-the-media-want-to-stop-disinformation-they-need-to-give-people-reasons-to-trust-them/
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