The Inevitable Hissy Fit

Created
Fri, 01/11/2024 - 05:00
Updated
Fri, 01/11/2024 - 05:00
Look at that nonsense. David Kurtz at TPM writes: In the final week of the presidential campaign, the country’s two most prominent newspapers extended into a second day their credulous coverage of Republicans’ fake outrage over President Biden’s “garbage” comment. The NYT and WaPo each made it a front-page story in Thursday’s editions, with above-the-fold, prime-real-estate treatment. Considering that Trump routinely calls Harris voters scum, garbage vermin and worse this is journalistic malpractice. Have they ever put his comments above the fold like that in this campaign even once, much less in the final week? I don’t think so. Josh Marshall put it like this: It’s actually a long time GOP tactic, one of their most infuriating, not because they do it but because the mainstream media falls for it every time. And sometimes the Democrats do too. I wrote about this years ago: The Art Of The Hissy FitBy digby Tuesday, October 23, 2007 That was written years before Trump became a political figure. Maybe someday the media will stop falling for it.