Problem: Media re-states, CLEANS UP, repackages trump's comments to make them sound sane

[EveHammond13]

when those comments were in no way delivered in any way that sounded sane.

Maybe they have to in order to get a coherent report out - but it normalizes and down-plays the crazy and the danger.

[empedocles]

1. Especially the chyron 'interpretations'

[Gothmog]

2. trump is not making sense most of the time

[lark]

3. MSM is owned by oligarchs, they take care of their own for the most part.

It's taken 4 years (including campaign time) for some of them to start telling the truth, that drumpf lies all the time, and even now they won't fact check him real time every time he's making a speech. Hair Furor's lie-a-thon today was only fact checked at the presser and that just gives him more opportunities to lie.

[RockRaven]

4. The media ought to faithfully present what he says, but it doesn't fit into headlines or tweets

because of his weird speaking style of tangents, run-on sentences, incomplete sentences, and repetitious catchphrases and filler words (the very things people NEED to be exposed to to understand why he's so unfit for office).

People are robbed of the experience of being confronted with his unhinged insanity, for the sake of brevity, and we all suffer for it. If you don't watch him speak unedited, or read a faithful transcript, you miss out on the full appreciation of how disordered he is.

[exboyfil]

5. They should just show it

put the text of the transcript on the screen.

Then put a big question mark on the screen and say you decide what he said.

[unitedwethrive]

6. Yes! This happened routinely by Katy Tur during the campaign.

It was so distressing to watch him fumble and obfuscate, then have her sum up with something that sounded semi-coherent.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. To the Washington Post's credit, they have provided a full transcipt of the ramble

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/15/trumps-bewildering-national-emergency-press-conference-annotated/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8f76dc0331d1