cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17793575
On the closing night of the Republican National Convention, Trump lambasted Democrats, pushed voter fraud conspiracy theories, fearmongered about immigration, and likened migrants to Hannibal Lecter
The media is desperate for balance. They’re not able to say “this man is a deranged fascist who’s harmful to the country and the world”. They’re fighting decades of professional inertia.
They just can’t do it; their training doesn’t let them. It’s kind of like asking a scientist if they’re certain that burning fossil fuels causes global warming: their training practically insists that they say “there’s strong evidence that it does” instead of “yes, of course it does”.
If they came out and said it, they wouldn’t be “balanced”. When you realize that the media cares more about balance than truth, it helps explain a lot of why we are where we are.