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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, September 23, 2019

Our Failed Media Experiment

If the Ukraine Scandal succeeds in destroying Trump, Ken Vogel will be the anti-Woodward and Bernstein. While some outlets like the Post have done a decent job of covering Trump, cable news and the NY Times have basically been hacked into becoming even hackier than they were before.

As many have noted, Trump's malfeasance in Ukraine is more or less out in the open.  He's admitted to much of what he's accused of.  But the media's inability to explain and focus on any one thing means that it gets lost in the blizzard of bullshit that emanates from the White House.  That's why I think there has to be a tape for this to really destroy him.  There has to be something that even the NY Times can't screw up.

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