TV news searches for sound bites and short videos. They were the original click-bait and still program news for customers that lap it up. And for at least the last twenty years journalists have been led by the nose by Republicans. Whatever ridiculous take the GOP has, journalists use it to frame every question to Democrats in “fairness.” Democrats have been just shitty at countering this. The way they cover Cheeto Mussolini is not new. It’s just the most recent extension of this “news format,” if I can call it that, and taken advantage of by a master bullshitter.
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