[Mick]

For the longest time, MSM aired all of Trump's lie-filled propaganda "briefings" and never said he "lies", using weird code for it, and nicer sounding synonyms like "falsehoods".  Now they simply cut off his anti-election screeds and say he lies.  Most investigative news organizations are simply overloaded because of the sheer quantity of bullshit going on in this Administration.  When things are put together retrospectively, the honest readers will see the sheer amount of lunacy as well as the GOP enablers that swept it under the rug.  I still can't get my head wrapped around the fact that he said, right before the elections, that COVID-19 was essentially no big deal and going away and the media would stop talking about it after the elections.  That alone, and his golfing while we have record outbreaks, would be sufficient to undermine previous presidents.  But because we're so used to the degree and amount of his bullshit, it's like a frog in a pot with the water slowly reaching boiling.

I could literally type two dozen other things Trump's administration has done off the top of my head that would've been massive scandals in other presidencies.  Any news organization that thoroughly investigates and publishes on all of it would, by default, seem like they are incredibly biased against Trump because it would drown out most other news.

Harvard's Kennedy School seems to think the media focused on the negative re: Trump.

https://shorensteincenter.org/news-cover...-189799085

Trump was covered far more negatively than other presidents:

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For the longest time, MSM aired all of Trump's lie-filled propaganda "briefings" and never said he "lies", using weird code for it, and nicer sounding synonyms like "falsehoods".  Now they simply cut off his anti-election screeds and say he lies.  Most investigative news organizations are simply overloaded because of the sheer quantity of bullshit going on in this Administration.  When things are put together retrospectively, the honest readers will see the sheer amount of lunacy as well as the GOP enablers that swept it under the rug.  I still can't get my head wrapped around the fact that he said, right before the elections, that COVID-19 was essentially no big deal and going away and the media would stop talking about it after the elections.  That alone, and his golfing while we have record outbreaks, would be sufficient to undermine previous presidents.  But because we're so used to the degree and amount of his bullshit, it's like a frog in a pot with the water slowly reaching boiling.

I could literally type two dozen other things Trump's administration has done off the top of my head that would've been massive scandals in other presidencies.  Any news organization that thoroughly investigates and publishes on all of it would, by default, seem like they are incredibly biased against Trump because it would drown out most other news.

Just want to make sure I understand you correctly -- your thesis is that the mainstream media held back with respect to Trump?

[Mick]

For the longest time, MSM aired all of Trump's lie-filled propaganda "briefings" and never said he "lies", using weird code for it, and nicer sounding synonyms like "falsehoods".  Now they simply cut off his anti-election screeds and say he lies.  Most investigative news organizations are simply overloaded because of the sheer quantity of bullshit going on in this Administration.  When things are put together retrospectively, the honest readers will see the sheer amount of lunacy as well as the GOP enablers that swept it under the rug.  I still can't get my head wrapped around the fact that he said, right before the elections, that COVID-19 was essentially no big deal and going away and the media would stop talking about it after the elections.  That alone, and his golfing while we have record outbreaks, would be sufficient to undermine previous presidents.  But because we're so used to the degree and amount of his bullshit, it's like a frog in a pot with the water slowly reaching boiling.

I could literally type two dozen other things Trump's administration has done off the top of my head that would've been massive scandals in other presidencies.  Any news organization that thoroughly investigates and publishes on all of it would, by default, seem like they are incredibly biased against Trump because it would drown out most other news.

Harvard's Kennedy School seems to think the media focused on the negative re: Trump.

https://shorensteincenter.org/news-cover...-189799085

Trump was covered far more negatively than other presidents:

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For the longest time, MSM aired all of Trump's lie-filled propaganda "briefings" and never said he "lies", using weird code for it, and nicer sounding synonyms like "falsehoods".  Now they simply cut off his anti-election screeds and say he lies.  Most investigative news organizations are simply overloaded because of the sheer quantity of bullshit going on in this Administration.  When things are put together retrospectively, the honest readers will see the sheer amount of lunacy as well as the GOP enablers that swept it under the rug.  I still can't get my head wrapped around the fact that he said, right before the elections, that COVID-19 was essentially no big deal and going away and the media would stop talking about it after the elections.  That alone, and his golfing while we have record outbreaks, would be sufficient to undermine previous presidents.  But because we're so used to the degree and amount of his bullshit, it's like a frog in a pot with the water slowly reaching boiling.

I could literally type two dozen other things Trump's administration has done off the top of my head that would've been massive scandals in other presidencies.  Any news organization that thoroughly investigates and publishes on all of it would, by default, seem like they are incredibly biased against Trump because it would drown out most other news.

Just want to make sure I understand you correctly -- your thesis is that the mainstream media held back with respect to Trump?