Finally: Top Journo Erupts at Media for Ignoring Trump's Mental State
https://newrepublic.com/article/185622/finally-top-journo-erupts-media-ignoring-trumps-mental-stateNo paywall link
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For many months, media critics and liberal Democrats have insisted that Donald Trump’s mental unfitness for the presidency is—or should be treated as—a big and important news story in and of itself. If President Biden’s age merited extensive, focused coverage because his fitness for the job is naturally of interest to voters, goes this critique, then surely Trump’s visible incoherence, cognitive impairment, inability to cogently discuss the simplest public matters, and increasingly strange flights of fantasy also deserve equivalent treatment.
This argument has never received an even remotely serious hearing from newsroom leaders at big media organizations. But it might have just become a bit harder to ignore, now that a well-respected veteran journalist has—in a moment of striking candor—called out his colleagues for failing to take Trump’s mental state seriously as a story in its own right.
“We have a damaged, delusional, old man who again might get reelected to the presidency of the United States,” Mike Barnicle, who served as a longtime columnist for The Boston Globe and other newspapers, said on Morning Joe early Wednesday. Barnicle continued that Trump frequently says “deranged” things in public that “you wouldn’t repeat” on “American television” or “in front of your children.”
“How did we get here?” Barnicle asked. Then he pointed a finger at his media colleagues. “Donald Trump can say whatever crazy things he wants to say, about submarines, and sharks, and electric batteries,” Barnicle said. He noted that such things are “not really covered” as a window into “who the man is” or a sign that he’s “out of his mind.”
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Mike, how could you, you are one of us, damn it. Maybe we will have to become journalist, again. This won't be easy for some of us.
it's the weave! or is he talking about his hair???? lol
movie about the "media" and specifically the medium of TV is "Network". One of the greatest writing jobs in film history. It is poignant on several levels at once. Does the big media we have now not want to risk lifting the fog they so purposely and deeply create? Of course it couldn't be such a thing because that would require multi-billion dollar corporations to have an agenda to control and protect how they are perceived while having a simultaneous agenda to manipulate the responses of people for the purposes of generating audience numbers by controlling presentation and content. Good heavens it would be sheer madness to think they would do such a thing.
What more do you need?
where else?
I’ve been reading Barnicle since I was a kid - and that’s a long time. If you grew up in Massachusetts, you knew Barnicle. Whether you liked him or not is a different issue. 
