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Originally Posted by direwolf
Oh don't worry, I'm sure the rest of the networks will gush over it as well. Remember what happened after he stuck to the script for his speech to congress? The bar is set so low for this jackass, that when he simply sticks to the teleprompter and comes across as "measured" or "normal", it's considered a huge win for Trump. No doubt it will push all the Russia talk off the front page for at least a day or two.
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agreed; the bar is set very low for Trump...
its a weird battle for media companies, trying to figure out how to report the news now - if one goes "too negative" you get labelled as part of the "left wing media" or "fake news", so in an effort to provide a more 'balanced' view, CNN will invite some clown like Jeffrey Lord on an give him a platform... or the NYTimes hiring a climate denier like Bret Stephens...
you'd think these guys would learn from the awful proliferation of false equivalence during the election...its a crazy form of self-sabotage, esp with a guy like Jeffrey Lord....just because people have opposing positions does meant that they should necessarily be given equal weight as prevailing truth.
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In an interview with the Huffington Post, the NYT’s Bennett said there was “more than one kind of denial.”
“And to pretend like the views of a thinker like Bret, and the millions of people who agree with him on a range of issues, should simply be ignored, that they’re outside the bounds of reasonable debate, is a really dangerous form of delusion,” he said.
Let’s think about what the NYT opinion page might look like if we based it on the beliefs of millions of Americans.
According to Gallup polling data, some 20 percent of Americans believe in witches, which is roughly half the number of people who think extrasensory perception is actually a thing.
A poll conducted by Harris in 2016 found that two out of five Americans think ghosts are real. Belief in evolution? That’s at 49 percent. Creationism? Some 37 percent are down with that.
Lizard people controlling societies? One in 25 Americans fear their presence, but where's their representation in the NYT editorials?
Arguing that someone should be hired to the editorial desk of one of the world’s most influential newspapers because “millions of people” hold a particular belief is a clear path to supporting the sort of delusional thinking that has more Americans believing in the paranormal than accepting that climate change is mostly human-caused.
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https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/04/2...ectual-honesty
Trump not deviating from the teleprompter, scrolling through a script that Trump probably had nothing to do with, does NOT make him presidential... and legitimate media suggesting that without the caveats mentioned above are doing the American people a disservice.