"Trump coverage needs to change and here's how" by Dan Froomkin

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The link to the article from Dan Froomkin at PRESS WATCH is below the excerpts I chose.

“You’ve got to stop covering him like he’s just another politician, with a different agenda,” Johnston told me recently. “He’s a criminal and a con artist. And that has to be central to everything you cover about him.”

For journalists, failing to situate Trump’s words and actions in the context of an ongoing con is tantamount to deception. It’s not just failing to tell the whole story, it’s failing to tell the central story.

Once you acknowledge that Trump is a con artist above all else, everything becomes clearer. For instance, it’s no longer surprising that he has no idea how to govern. That’s not his thing. Nor does he have a clearly definable political agenda, other than seizing power and destroying enemies.

He is the proverbial snake-oil salesman. That’s the accurate framing. But it’s not what we’re getting from the traditional mainstream media."

https://presswatchers.org/2024/12/trump-coverage-needs-to-change-and-heres-how/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHmBoZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdd9DWWDNt-uvshmmK_2Uk2ab-sA-ysM_2iSzC3BuUffKp12Uk_QnBYmzw_aem_cRG3qgHvYUQKtGaEpUi9tA
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It's why I (almost always) call him the grifter.
Indeed - I try not to utter his name, if possible.