Every once in a while, a reasonable conservative commentator will say it's crazy major news orgs have no one on staff to earnestly represent MAGA conservatism. It sounds like a reasonable critique. MAGA is ~25-40% of America! How can you cover a country without somebody to represent this cohort? But this is the problem. Yes, MSM journalists get stuff wrong all the time and let their biases pull them in bad directions. But MAGA conservatism is a movement *entirely* dedicated to faithfully defending somebody who is biologically incapable of getting through a paragraph without lying. You can't build a reasonably objective news organization like "... this is our econ team, this is our science desk, and these folks we pay to scream about how the sky is green if Trump decides for whatever reason to lie about sky color on a Tuesday."
Every once in a while, a reasonable conservative commentator will say it's crazy major news orgs have no one on staff to earnestly represent MAGA conservatism. It sounds like a reasonable critique. MAGA is ~25-40% of America! How can you cover a country without somebody to represent this cohort? But this is the problem. Yes, MSM journalists get stuff wrong all the time and let their biases pull them in bad directions. But MAGA conservatism is a movement *entirely* dedicated to faithfully defending somebody who is biologically incapable of getting through a paragraph without lying. You can't build a reasonably objective news organization like "... this is our econ team, this is our science desk, and these folks we pay to scream about how the sky is green if Trump decides for whatever reason to lie about sky color on a Tuesday."
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@DKThomp This is one of the reasons I often defended the intent (if not always the content) of the Trump diner stories. It's important to get the perspective into the paper, it's nearly impossible to get it through a columnist for a long list of reasons.
@DKThomp How many mainstream outlets having been relentlessly cheerleading pediatric sex changes that have no supporting medical evidence? Derangements on the left are just as bad but get respectability by being laundered through institutions.
@DKThomp 🤡 TRAITOR Trump whines that he can't attend Barron's graduation !!! 😆This is absolutely HILARIOUS !!! 🚨 Trump FAILED to attend ANY of his other 4 childrens' graduations‼️
Given that most of the country these days things that the establishment media are currently lying about everything, that doesn't ring very true. There's a reason that pretty much no one trusts them any more.
@DKThomp This makes sense, but raises a puzzle. Liberals have their own body of falsehoods they are sworn to defend. Does this lead to exactly the same problem? If not, why not?