Maybe A Whole New Perspective?

'We have to get our act together': Morning Joe regular raises red flag on Trump coveragehttps://t.co/viY6NOCPTP

— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 12, 2024

"What's amazing to me is the amount of attention we pay in the media, all of us, to the flubs," he began before noting Biden meant to say Vice President Kamala Harris and substituted Trump's name. 

“You know, Vice President Trump instead of Vice President Harris — things like that," he continued. "That stuff has come with the dinner with Joe Biden for 40 years and we regard it each and every time he makes a flub, it's shocking. It's not shocking." 

"What is truly shocking in terms of balance, and you referenced it, is Donald Trump's, not flubs, his incendiary rhetoric. Rhetoric aimed at dividing the country, at turning one group of people against another group of people, of threatening institutions like NATO, of threatening a country like Ukraine, things like that," he added. 

"We pay less attention to his rhetoric than we do," before adding a mocking "'Oh, my god, he called her Vice President Trump.' No, we have to get our act together and balance this thing out."

The problem runs a little deeper than that.

It's helpful and instructive when this is right out in the open. This isn't reporting or analysis. It's reporting the campaign trash talk like it's a face value factual narrative. See the final clause for instance. Imagine being a hype man for some rapper but not realizing it.… https://t.co/l6Yzmzb10S

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 12, 2024

A reminder Swan works for the “newspaper of record:”

What If You Had a Military Summit Defending the Future of Democracy and No One Gave a Damn?https://t.co/qtmD5EVLha

— emptywheel (check marks the spot) (@emptywheel) July 12, 2024

The GOP platform calls for using the 14th Amendment to establish fetal personhood. You can’t claim to walk away from a national abortion ban while walking into fetal personhood. Journalists need to get that story right. My latest for @HeartlandSignal ⤵️ https://t.co/ijf9oKsCVc

— Jennifer Schulze (@NewsJennifer) July 12, 2024

A paper whose coverage of Trump is just objectively bad and in the tank for access over accuracy.

There is barely a point in trying to "shame" the NYT on its political coverage any more.

They are smart enough to be fully aware of what they are doing. (And it *doesn't* happen in coverage of biz, tech, arts, books, climate, etc.) https://t.co/vhVhMM3wFd

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) July 11, 2024