Wow, didn't realize the daily howler was still publishing. But Somerby seems to think Trump's psychopathogy hasn't been discussed. Anyone who reads the NYT and WaPo regularly knows that's ridiculous. At least once a week there's a column about how he's clinically off his rocker. The thing is, writing about it doesn't accomplish anything. The only thing that will do that is to vote him out of office. I wish the media would devote more energy to that, and especially to covering GOP election shenanigans, which are criminally ignored.
(ERIC Boehlert, article) That disturbing pattern has escalated in recent days, amidst a global pandemic, when Trump fired an inspector general who reviewed the whistle-blower complaint that led to his impeachment, arbitrarily removed the lead watchdog overseeing the $2 trillion coronavirus package, and attacked another inspector general who criticized virus testing shortages.'
I believe the late, great J. Anthony Lukas coined the term "Afghanistanism" when he worked at The New York Times--that you could write pretty much as you wanted if you were a distant foreign correspondent, but the closer you got to home, the less you were allowed to be critical and analytical. If he were with us now, he would be saying, I think, much along the lines of this great piece.
Wow, didn't realize the daily howler was still publishing. But Somerby seems to think Trump's psychopathogy hasn't been discussed. Anyone who reads the NYT and WaPo regularly knows that's ridiculous. At least once a week there's a column about how he's clinically off his rocker. The thing is, writing about it doesn't accomplish anything. The only thing that will do that is to vote him out of office. I wish the media would devote more energy to that, and especially to covering GOP election shenanigans, which are criminally ignored.
(ERIC Boehlert, article) That disturbing pattern has escalated in recent days, amidst a global pandemic, when Trump fired an inspector general who reviewed the whistle-blower complaint that led to his impeachment, arbitrarily removed the lead watchdog overseeing the $2 trillion coronavirus package, and attacked another inspector general who criticized virus testing shortages.'
I believe the late, great J. Anthony Lukas coined the term "Afghanistanism" when he worked at The New York Times--that you could write pretty much as you wanted if you were a distant foreign correspondent, but the closer you got to home, the less you were allowed to be critical and analytical. If he were with us now, he would be saying, I think, much along the lines of this great piece.