• Fuzzy_Dunlop@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Exactly. How do “journalists” hear something like this and not immediately ask “so what else did he do just now that we should really be covering”?

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      3 days ago

      Steve Bannon has previously explained this very tactic of “flooding the zone” because the media are “lazy”. And journalists still let themselves get caught on this superficial grind.