At Off Message, Brian Beutler writes that “the public can’t be well informed if journalists apply different standards to different politicians arbitrarily—or, worse, out of fear that certain politicians will seek retribution for adversarial coverage. . .If campaign journalists have taught us anything it’s they’re perfectly capable of turning reality on its head and making Trump’s opponents suffer for his sins.”
Of course, we saw it just now with the reverse-engineering by the corporate media of Trump’s insanity and dementia to implicate Biden.