The Abominable Showman is obviously a believer in the huckster's old maxim that there's no such thing as bad publicity. But in the past couple of days, there's been a slight adjustment in some media coverage. It's an improvement, and we need to see more of it.
On Monday, a CBS reporter publicly fact-checked Dolt 45 to his face regarding his lies about his border separation and prosecution policies.
Yesterday, Sarah Fuckabee Sanders held the first White House press briefing since October 29th. Interestingly, CNN covered it with a split-screen, live fact-checking her remarks. MSNBC skipped Sarah's propaganda party altogether, focusing on other news instead.
It's far too late, but the American media has finally realized how, in blind pursuit of ratings, its constant coverage of Trump's shit show has in fact helped his efforts to sow confusion and disinformation.
Since this administration is sustained on a daily blizzard of lies, this new approach could be a useful new trend in network coverage -- don't show us every bit of the blizzard, just monitor what the administration spews out, then tell us the truth, list all the falsehoods and give us a factual analysis of the issues.
Skip the lying circus monkey grabbing his balls and tweeting his bullshit just to get our attention.
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