A cancer on the body politic
by digby
This piece by Columbia Journalism Review in which they interviewed various reporters about covering the Trump campaign is interesting.
This one struck me:
25 August 2015: Univision anchor and journalist Jorge Ramos is ejected from a Trump press conference in Iowa. Other media organizations are later banned from covering Trump events
Jorge Ramos, anchor, Univision and Fusion: In that press conference only two journalists defended me: Tom Llamas from ABC and Kasie Hunt from MSNBC. All the other journalists didn’t say anything. I think that the way we covered Trump at the beginning of his campaign was seriously flawed. The New York Times, the LA Times, Politico and the Washington Post [in September] called Donald Trump a liar. [But] it took 13 months for them to do that. At the beginning, it was seriously inappropriate.
This was when I knew something was up. I thought, if they don’t take him seriously and he’s just a joke, why aren’t they defending one of their own on principle?
They didn’t. And they let him grow like a cancer.
Read the whole thing. The press needs to have an autopsy. Something went very, very wrong.