Learned a new word today: "sane-washing." It's the process whereby the media cover up Trump's unintelligible gibberish by cleaning up his quotes, never reporting his mental deterioration, and pretending he's sane no matter how insane his comments.
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) September 8, 2024
this is exactly what i mean when i accuse outlets of sane-washing Trump https://t.co/JuM3Ui1YLl
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 5, 2024
Amazing levels of sanewashing here. https://t.co/O8RvkcDaDR pic.twitter.com/CUAbeDoLPd
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) September 6, 2024
“Sanewashing” is a brilliant term https://t.co/HBvHJ34e99
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 5, 2024
American media have a lot to answer for:Perfect example of what @atrupar refers to as "sane washing." Trump goes off on a 500+ word incoherent rant about child care that makes ZERO sense but the best @nytimes can do is call it a "jumbled answer" and then cherry pick a few words to make it sound coherent pic.twitter.com/c5qjnWtvyf
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) September 5, 2024
Starting to wonder if the New York Times is in that FBI list of paid Russian influencers...
— StrictlyKamala 🇺🇦🌻 (@StrictlyChristo) September 7, 2024
Editors of all 3 leading news orgs ran A1 stories. Giving prime real visibility. Instead of objectively reporting his pathologic incoherence. They cherry picked nuggets to report. “Musk” “efficacy commission”.
— Fix Media Now (by the Media and Democracy Project) (@FixMediaNow) September 6, 2024
This a form of deception.
H/t to @Acyn
2/https://t.co/tr8TzBzOGb
Sanitizing DANGEROUSLY insane incoherent ramblings of Trump is not journalism.
— Fix Media Now (by the Media and Democracy Project) (@FixMediaNow) September 6, 2024
It is immoral and unacceptable.
Please read this important piece by @ParkerMolloy @newrepublic
4/https://t.co/tXlHE0kESY pic.twitter.com/rvSBrh5huz
Editors wield the power (and serve at the pleasure of media oligarchs who employ them) but the culprits that brought today’s episode of sane-washing are:
— Fix Media Now (by the Media and Democracy Project) (@FixMediaNow) September 6, 2024
Team Sulzberger @AGSNYT@migold @arappeport
Team @JeffBezos @marianne_levine @JStein_WaPo @TrishaThadani
Team… pic.twitter.com/nDBnakOSLz
Both the crazy speeches and the sane-washing normalization are getting noticed:Meanwhile, NYT online site does not have a comment section for this story. So is no easy way for NYT subscribers to express their views to paper directly.
— Faire Comments (@FaireComments) September 7, 2024
3/3 Update:
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) September 6, 2024
Long segment on @JoeNBC today on double-standard being applied to Trump (vs either Biden or Harris), and using coverage of this speech as example.https://t.co/x6HRk1Z41c
It's actually nice to call it incoherent gibberish. I found myself wondering if he was possessed by an alien...but, ya know, a really, really stupid one https://t.co/TJTy1SQbiy
— Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) September 7, 2024
I did a search for the term "sane-washing", and it was actually used as early as 2020, but at that time it described moderate progressive politicians defending themselves from media attacks by trying to nomalize slogans like 'defund the police', which were considered 'crazy' at the time.This is how you frame Trump’s incomprehensible gibberish attempt at a childcare answer pic.twitter.com/J49FgrYWT3
— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) September 6, 2024
2 comments:
People are what they say they are. If Donald Trump says he's a stable genius, shouldn't we validate that says the media. If Donald Trump says he isn't a fraud and didn't sexually assault women, shouldn't we validate that too says the media. If Donald Trump says the president is immune from criminal law, well who's the Supreme Court to disagree.
Donald Trump is what you get when schools, corporations, courts and governments tell people to ignore reality, boundaries and safeguarding and believe people's delusions. It's what we get from a society incapable of saying no to the anti-social behaviour of narcissistic men. So, don't be an ageist, ableist bigot folx. Be kind.
With Ai floating around in the clouds and the MSM reluctant to call issues as they are for fear of alienating advertisers your news comes s no surprise.
TB
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