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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 05:20:33 JST Paul Cantrell

   • Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org

   In all the noise, the obvious keeps getting lost. Sometimes stating the obvious very simply and very clearly is the best thing to do. That’s what @froomkin does here:

   #uspol https://journa.host/@froomkin/113749269989999599

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 05:26:27 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org

     My only quibble with @froomkin’s analysis here — and truly, I am quibbling — is that it’s important to recognize that the press itself is one of the marks in this con, not just a complicit bystander. Like any mark, they’re in deep denial and will stay there. Like any mark, they fancy themselves Smarter Than That. That’s why the press won’t cover him as a con artist.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 05:31:31 JST Paul Cantrell

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     The reason the political press is so manipulable, the thing that’s made them such an easy mark for the con, is that political coverage long ago stopped being proper journalism.

     It’s reality TV: assembling pulpy entertainment from carefully edited fragments of real people, manipulated into the shape of narrative drama. Is it any wonder a reality TV star knows how to work that system?

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