Rick does Math and Stuff: The media have been systematically purged of journalism over the past 30 years. Trump is the effect, not the cause.

Yeah it’s not like we’ll see a repeat of 1968, when the Democrats downshifted to a Vice President at a convention in Chicago that was plagued by protests against the party’s support for an unpopular foreign war and wound up creating an opening for a candidate they’d beat before. Totally different!

YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

Here’s a better take www.history.com/news/lbj-exi...

LBJ Announced He Wouldn’t Run Again. Political Chaos Ensued | HISTORYwww.history.com How President Johnson’s exit from the 1968 presidential race rocked politics.

Nothing has been demonstrated to be more broken by Trump than the media. No basic research skills. Addicted to recency bias. Little critical thinking. Refusal to murder board anything. And utter contempt for any criticism.

The media have been systematically purged of journalism over the past 30 years. Trump is the effect, not the cause.

I respectfully disagree. The media has, unfortunately, failed to separate entertainment from journalism for decades now, but they have been lucky in that the majority of politicians still engaged in (mostly) good faith politics/governance...

... There is nothing good faith about Trump. The media acknowledged they understood that and still dove right into their standard good faith model. Even today, they are hopelessly lost in that model. But it's even worse now....

Would recommend this piece from 2020 from CSJ. It's a good piece on the failures. It's only gotten worse. I mean, they still can't use the word lie. www.cjr.org/special_repo...

How the press covered the last four years of Trumpwww.cjr.org <p>In November 2017, the International Center for Journalists gave Fox News’s Chris Wallace an award for excellence in journalism. In his acceptance speech, he noted that President Trump’s attacks on ...

The media created an atmosphere that allowed a pathological liar to rise to the top. Indeed, he was elevated not only by a partisan machine dedicated to his triumph, but by other networks that prioritized scandal over journalism. If they'd treated him with half the skepticism they showed Sanders..

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