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Trump’s Mental State Just Got Visibly Worse. Will the Media Say So?

Trump’s Mental State Just Got Visibly Worse. Will the Media Say So?

Update: 2024-09-061
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During an event billed as a speech about the economy, Donald Trump was addled and confused, rambled incoherently, and launched into strange non sequiturs. Yet The New York Times’s initial news story made the event sound far more normal than it was. Is the press doing an adequate job of analyzing Trump’s deteriorating mental state? We think the answer is an emphatic “no.” We talked to former reporter Meredith Shinerauthor of a recent piece for The New Republic about the successes of GOP media ref-workingwho explained why the press largely fails to scrutinize Trump’s mental unfitness for the presidency.

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Trump’s Mental State Just Got Visibly Worse. Will the Media Say So?

Trump’s Mental State Just Got Visibly Worse. Will the Media Say So?

Greg Sargent