Reading List for a New Era

We need new strategies to offset the sane-washed "news" provided by the corporate giants.

Call it soft-pedaling. Call it “sane-washing.” Call it “under-reporting.” No matter what label you apply, it’s all the same — the normalization by our media of the policies and actions of Trump and his cronies.

So many of our traditional media outlets, both print and broadcast, have been treating the events of the last few months as if they were all just a normal part of political life in the United States. They most certainly are not.

You can take the events of any single day of this second term of Trump’s presidency and stack them up against the same day in any other president’s first or second term, and you’ll see just how abnormal things are.

Can you imagine Ronald Reagan inviting a ketamine-fueled guy with a chain saw to share the stage with him? Would Jimmy Carter have held ad hoc press conferences to denigrate and threaten judges who ruled a…