I am so sick of the headlines that make this all seem so normal! Like I wrote before when Kamala Harris said, "Trump LIED to you!" Not the fascist pig broke a campaign promise....

Who is not very interested in “politics”, breaking norms or bucking tradition may sound like bold, necessary change, among other reasons to make this distinction.

who live in a bubble where the narrative that "the government is not the solution, the government is the problem" and "the government is controlled by left-wing politicians" breaking norms sounds like something that they would agree with.

we're talking about.

TY and Thanks for pointing it out, Timothy Snyder.

someone told me it should be "enabling" so I listened.

But I think you're right.. the owners that demand covering for the Fascist Takeover.. Thanks in Big Part to them.. are the same.. they don't give one shit about American Democracy.

No one cares about norms.
They care about breaking the law and autocracy.
Breaking norms sounds like a new clothing fashion.

It does reflect the reality that law-breaking that has been immunized by the Supreme Court or non-enforcement from the Department of Justice is effectively permitted.

are afraid of white conservatives for whom they tread lightly. It's an American tradition.

and the"media's" reluctance to consult a thesaurus has emboldened and supported their deplorability.
Can't help thinking it's all about the MONEY.

I friggin' detest cliches.

Blatant corruption.

The Overton Window is spinning so fast it is like watching clothes in a dryer.

every time they refer to the criminal president or his unlawful actions...that they are criminal and unlawful. They need to refer to the corrupt president and his corrupt Whitehouse as being corrupt. The threats to government workers is political corruption, the indictment of Comy is political corruption. I could go on. Force the media to report THAT! Make it THE message and tell the media what you are doing, so they talk about how dems are accusing the felon, Trump of corruption. Then they can start exploring why they have made their message 'corruption" and if it will work. They will get corruption experts on the TEE VEE and ask them to explain what it all means. They will force the R's to defend the criminal president and try to excuse or deny that he is corrupt. that is how to win this shutdown battle too.

Like crimes are never committed, only alleged.

They can't say laws broken, if a court hasn't (yet) found that to be the case (presumption of innocence until proven guilty). Constitution violated is not a factual statement until/unless the Supreme Court says so, because they are the ultimate arbiter of that. So no reputable news source will headline with these statements which are technically/legally false.

"Alleged" can be a useful qualifier, but it doesn't so well communicate that we do know that we do know that a person did something. IOW, an alleged shooter communicates that there definitely was a shooter, we just don't know for sure that this person did it. But with Trump there is no doubt that he did the thing, the doubt is only about whether it indeed did actually break a law or would be found to be unconstitutional by the court.

It seems like there should be a neat, concise term for this, but I can't think of any.

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Instead they say he misspoke/exaggerated/embellished…

.and why does the media “translate” his toxic vomitus nonsense bullshit into “thought provoking discourse”?..

I say it’s the media’s slavering need for access and their palpable fear of being exiled

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So they just stoke fear in these weasel media companies.

I just want the news. I don't need them to lean left or right, just report the facts. Don't get me started on broadcast news, jeez! I could live with FAUX because I knew what to expect but now all news strategizes the same. If it bleeds it leads. And it feels like I'm watching an old batman series, with all of the descriptors to get an emotional reaction such as "pow, slammed, bang, crushed, etc." Or "mislead instead of lied".
Just report the news without commentary.
I don't need to see a 2 hour car chase instead of the news and weather. The internet is not your competition, it's just another source of information. Report with accuracy, not speed.

When in fact it was a bold faced lie.
They appease the fascists because they control the media.

And they won't refrain from reversing themselves when the next Democratic president wants to get things done for the common good.

They should be ashamed, but I doubt they ever will be.