A newspaper editor — Chris Quinn of the Cleveland Plain Dealer — says it as clearly as he can:
"Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts." www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03...
Quinn writes of a different kind of access. Access to our own eyes and ears:
You know what? Good. Other outlets should just refuse to cover it. We know what’s going to happen anyway, let them scream into the void, preaching to the choir of their death cult.
I think maybe some people don’t get it because the shorthand for the insurrection is “January 6th” so they think of it as just the angry riots, not the larger coordinated attempt to kill American democracy
Many of the unbelievers have been fed a steady diet of calm, Jan 6th sightseers. If they don’t change the channel they’ll never see the truth. Fox has really done a number on them.
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If I were bot, this 20 second clip of Trump screaming hate and threatening physical violence would have better quality.
Who votes for this sickness?
Good for Mr. Quinn! Nice to see that under his stewardship the “Plain Dealer” is living up to its name* & providing an excellent example of journalistic integrity for the multitude of slackers to follow.
*Plain dealer: Someone who interacts or does business straightforwardly & honestly.
"..how German leaders – including some in the media -- thought they could use Hitler as a means to get power for themselves and were willing to look past his obvious deficiencies to get where they wanted."
JD Vance, the Benedict Arnold of our time.
The PD has always been the Ohio Chamber of Commerce's best pal and buddy, so think of this less as journalistic integrity than screaming "THIS IS HOW YOU GET BLUE OHIO, YOU MAGA MORONS! FUCK, YOU JUST GOT US ANOTHER SIX YEARS OF SHERROD BROWN!"
That's cynical to a fault. The PD has long been one of the best regional newspapers in the United States, and it is worth thinking about the Op-Ed and news pages separately.
That last line is the best. Stop elevating people with an alternate reality to the same level as those serious about what's going on. It's a waste of time, it delays progress, it adds confusion. Not everyone gets a say in everything whenever they feel like. It's this entitlement to attention. Enough
Wrote a quick email to Mr. Quinn thanking him for taking this stand. It's important these information sources don't dumb themselves down to avoid hurting peoples feelings when they hear the truth.
i'm puzzled, curious, that it took 4 months because he didn't want to harsh some "decent" trump folks. that confessed anxiety reminds me of what many american families are going thru, but of the editor's whole society.
Quinn says what should be foundational to anyone in journalism, to even those only engaged in the business of journalism, and yet it seems all the pillars of journalism have become propaganda machines, or glorified click for dollars carnival hawkers.
I mean, I think Sandy Hook alone answers the rhetorical about the bridge collapse. There are way too many people who believe conspiracies, no matter how much evidence debunks it.
just on this whole facts and truth kick though, by definition you can’t do the worst thing a president has ever done without annihilating two major cities through nuclear aggression
