Sanewashing.
It’s pretty rare for the Columbia Journalism Review and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to be dishing on the same topic. But media critics touched a nerve this week with accusations that the political press suffers from a “coherence bias,” particularly as it relates to Donald Trump: the tendency of reporters and editors to take his verbal diarrhea and transform it, through the magic of elision and omission, into statesmanship. TNR contributor Parker Molloy has an even better word for this practice: “sanewashing.”
Even your comment is still beating around the bush a little bit. Let’s state it plainly: it violates journalistic integrity that they don’t!
The media is not misguidedly trying to be “neutral” here; it’s worse than that. They are actively carrying water for the fascists.
Yeah, giving some random equal time to spout nonsense as an actual subject matter expert is malpractice.