A bias of *The Media* that never gets talked about is the strong bias toward coherence.

[Nevilledog]

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A bias of ~The Media~ that never gets talked about is the strong bias toward coherence.

Make a reporter sit through a bizarre, rambling, nonsensical speech and they’ll be inclined to summarize it in some way that makes actual sense and grab the single sensical quote.
9:09 AM · Sep 30, 2020

[captain queeg]

1. Totally agree. Read a transcript some time.

He is completely incoherent.

[Nevilledog]

2. I had never thought of it as a "bias", but it absolutely is one.

[Hortensis]

3. An English journalist, fully familiar with the dynamic of

normalizing politician gibberish in general, attended a Trump event in Arizona and wrote an article that was posted here on DU. As sophisticated as she was, fully expecting the real Trump to be nonsensical, rambling, and frequently incoherent, she was still absolutely shocked by how incredibly worse The Real Donald Trump was than the filtered product.

This is why I think the first debate provided the electorate with extremely valuable information about who this man is. (People who still need to know policy positions can pull out their phones and look up the many summaries published for them.)

I'd wish Joe had been less affected by Trump's explosive sabotage and able to express himself even better through it, but overall it was extremely worth watching. Just wish more people did.