This is happening a lot to female journalists. So here is a modest proposal for the White House press corps: Stand together. No one should ask another question until the President answers the question that was ignored.
The story is not that there are two conflicting versions of what happened.
The story is that the federal government is lying about what happened.
There is plenty of evidence.
Your job, our job, is to sift that evidence and describe what actually happened ffs.
A prime example of stenography normalizing and opening the Overton window: This dangerous insanity is swallowed whole from the dictator as if it were just him "weighing" policy. No! It is imperialistic fascism. Greenland and Venezuela are the Rhineland and Sudetenland. Report with history and context, otherwise it is not journalism. It is complicity.
What a long, #BrokenTimes way to say "corruption."
"The various hats worn by Donald Trump Jr. are an example of the ethical questions raised by Trump family business ventures during the president’s second term."
Leading Prediction Firms Share a Commonality: Donald Trump Jr.
The New York Times • Sharon LaFraniereFucking #BrokenPost treats Trump's vindictive perversion of the department of justice as legitimate. It's fascism, folks. You're whistling past the KZ.
#BrokenPost catalogs how Trump's attacks on voting rights but positions it as merely "trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted...beyond typical political persuasion...challenging long-established democratic norms."
It's fascism.
In which the #BrokenPost bothsides Constitutional rights.
#BrokenPost bothsides murder.
Imagine if instead of "pressing" Trump about the killing of Renee Good, they had asked what Stephen Miller told Greg Bovino the rules of engagement should be and if that explains why Bovino and so many of his goons assault peaceful Americans?
We Pressed Trump on His Conclusion About the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis. Here’s What He Said.
The New York Times • Zolan Kanno-YoungsDisgusting #BrokenPost.
"But"? No, #BrokenTimes, it should be "and." With "but" you presume he was the cause of repression and you advocate for his kidnapping. Your conjunctions matter.
If the headline is "disputed shooting" rather than straightforwardly telling the public what happened this rewards the DHS for lying about these events
The Overton window is not just an academicky trope. Moving it has consequences. What the #BrokenTimes should position as threats of illegal imperialism it instead normalizes as "hints."
After Venezuela, Trump Offers Hints About What Could Be Next
The New York Times • David E. SangerDon't click. It'll ruin your Sunday: a pure puff piece by Bumiller about one of the dictator's odious henchmen. This is what has become of the #BrokenTimes.
Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle, the Talk of Athens
The New York Times • Elisabeth Bumiller
It's so weird to say a politician "doubled down" on.....the very explicit promises he made during the campaign?
Isn't that what promises are?
Yes, it's good that The Times collates Trump's tangled grifts but, again, the #BrokenTimes fails to take the next step: Labeling it corruption to enable explanation of emoluments and illegality.
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
The New York Times • Lazaro Gamio and Amy Schoenfeld WalkerIt is white nationalism, but to the #BrokenPost it merely "underscores the sea change at an agency central to President Donald Trump’s civil rights agenda." It is America's Nuremberg laws.
