The Truth About Trump's Press Conference ( 'bias toward coherence,') [View all]
The Truth About Trumps Press Conference
August 9, 2024 at 5:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 257 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/08/09/the-truth-about-trumps-press-conference/
"SNIP...........
Tom Nichols: Donald Trumps public events are a challenge for anyone who writes about him. His rallies and press conferences are rich sources of material, fountains of molten weirdness that blurp up stuff that would sink the career of any other politician. By the time theyre over, all of the attendees are covered in gloppy nonsense.
And then, once everyone cleans up and shakes the debris off their phones and laptops, so much of what Trump said seems too bonkers to have come from a former president and the nominee of a major party, so journalists are left trying to piece together a story as if Trump were a normal person. This is what The Atlantics editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, has described as the bias toward coherence, and it leads to careful circumlocutions instead of stunned headlines.
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