Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics and coverage of Campaign 2024. Wednesday night, in Long Island’s 16,000-seat Nassau Coliseum, Donald Trump told the crowd at a rally for his presidential campaign tha...
Part of the problem is that for the 6 debunking it, there are 26 uncritically amplifying that statement in a flagrant act of journalistic malpractice in service of ending democracy for clicks... Not that anything would change the minds of the MAGAt cultists at this point.
It’s not very hard to see that 90% of major media outlets want Trump to win. They aren’t incompetent. They aren’t sane-washing his words because they don’t know he says nonsensical and racist shit. They want him to win, for career or ideological reasons.