Margaret Sullivan Warns of the Dangers of Accepting Doublethink
Things are getting pretty Orwellian.
When Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan puts into words what it would have looked like had the media, not “[taken] everything that Donald Trump said so literally,” as Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski admonished the press for doing at the Harvard Campaign Manager’s Conference, the effect is farcical:
So, how should Trump’s statements during the campaign have been covered? Should reporters have added something like this in the second paragraph of every news story? “Trump probably didn’t mean that he would appoint a special prosecutor/build a wall/deport millions of immigrants.
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