With some of the statements from trump and his campaign, has anyone in the MSM suggested that trump may
be having cognitive decline issues, or would that be considered "sanewashig"?
Is the media 'sanewashing' Trump?
Critics say there's a disconnect between 'reality and reported news'
"Donald Trump can ramble. In public appearances, the former president has a penchant for hopping from one topic to the next to yet another in a matter of seconds, following a train of thought that's not always obvious. Do media reports make his word jumbles sound undeservedly coherent?"
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"There's a hot new term doing the rounds among media critics: 'sanewashing,'" Jon Allsop said at Columbia Journalism Review. The term suggests that news outlets take Trump's "incoherent, highly abnormal rants" and — in an attempt to extract meaning — process them into something "coherent or normal." The result creates a "misleading impression" for readers and viewers who didn't watch the former president's original comments.
"Trump reached a "new level of incoherence" when asked about child care during a recent appearance, Isabel Fattal said at The Atlantic. His 338-word answer jumped from child care to tariffs to deficits to a discussion of his "America First" philosophy, leaving plenty of observers mystified. "His answer makes absolutely no sense," Fattal said. But stories from The Associated Press and CNN still tried to "impose sense where there is none" with headlines like "Trump Suggests Tariffs Can Help Solve Rising Child Care Costs in a Major Economic Speech." That's not helpful to voters. "It would help if journalists would report accurately on what we're all seeing in front of us."
https://theweek.com/politics/media-sanewashing-trump-speeches
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