The cruelty is the point.

This headline encapsulates the debates in newsrooms over how to report on an authoritarian regime without alienating those who aren’t ready to call it that. Q for the @nytimes.com:
At what point will you report Trump’s authoritarianism as fact instead of something some people think?

The science is perfectly clear. @npr.org It is our responsibility as journalists to report the truth. With this headline you’re serving up one of this administration’s blatant lies as if it’s a credible scientific debate. It’s inaccurate and dangerous.

Thanks to #BostonUniversityCollegeofCommunication &
#BostonUniversitySchoolofPublicHealth for hosting me, and for the opportunity to speak with students & faculty about the state of the media and the impact the #USAID cuts. Special thanks to the #PulitzerCenter for making my visit to BU happen!

Where were these troops on #January6th 2021 when a violent mob of insurrectionists stormed the capitol building, resulting in multiple deaths and the injury of more than 150 #police officers?

Good thing the President is sending in the national guard to respond to this…emergency?

Like I said, listen to the #scientists

Nothing to see here, folks.