Fellow Substackers who are not at The New York Times or The Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times, CNN or any other big time mainstream news outlets have been kvetching (including The Hustings’ own Stephen Macaulay) about how those selfsame outlets are allowing Donald J.
Credit for referencing Spy. Indeed, there were those back then who knew the snake was a snake and were willing to say so. I suspect news operations today stick with mealy-mouthed euphemisms for "lie" in order to maintain their self-imposed fantasy of "objectivity." One can also imagine the hell-fury that would descend on those outlets that actually call the snake a snake. Even equivocators such as CNN (and soon, it seems, CBS) would rather pay off Trump than give his supporters more reason to call them "fake news."
Credit for referencing Spy. Indeed, there were those back then who knew the snake was a snake and were willing to say so. I suspect news operations today stick with mealy-mouthed euphemisms for "lie" in order to maintain their self-imposed fantasy of "objectivity." One can also imagine the hell-fury that would descend on those outlets that actually call the snake a snake. Even equivocators such as CNN (and soon, it seems, CBS) would rather pay off Trump than give his supporters more reason to call them "fake news."
Nicely written, Mr. Lassa.