RE: https://mastodon.social/@top_news/117405745491720776
Here's something news organizations could do to stop enabling bad faith actors like Trump: stop using labels like "critics" for people who are rightly calling out political stunts.
It's not a neutral term. It inserts an air of neutrality where none should be. The refusal of news organizations to be willing to state objective reality is one of the reasons that a Trump is possible.
Yes, this will come with loads of criticism. The right learned years ago that they could "work the ref" and dogpile news organizations into submission by complaining about bias for ... accurately reporting facts.
Taking those complaints as valid has just led to an endless cycle of bad faith complaints and moving the goalposts farther and farther from truthful reporting.
(Yeah, I know I'm just shouting into the wind...)
@jzb This and This seem relevant.
Coulda sworn I did a whole list of headline-rewrites in a post recently, but maybe I decided it wasn't worth posting.
The page you are looking for isn't here.