You may have noticed that the press really doesn’t like the way that the president fabricates facts, etc. Fair enough. For some media critics, how the MSM covers Trump’s lies is a matter of grave importance. Again, fair enough. After all, I don’t like that stuff either, so I am not going to claim that they don’t have a point.
But if you want a good example of why so many on the Right don’t care about this sort of thing anymore, or at least don’t pay attention to journalists who criticize it, all you need to do is look at how some in the press have handled Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
As I’ve been pointing out for a while, when it comes to social-media marketing and the press, she does not represent an answer to Trumpism so much as a progressive version of it.
But here’s the fun part. For the MSM, when Trump does it, he’s a liar and a demagogue at war with the First Amendment. Trump lives in a “reality distortion field.”
When AOC does it, she’s doing important work, illuminating the very real biases of the press and shaping a narrative.
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