Agreed. I'm not burnishing a halo for either side in the primary, because yeah, both sides pulled dog whistles on the other, sometimes intentionally, and sometimes by accident (due to not thinking, misspeaking, and just plain ol' exhaustion).
Yet, there's no denying that there was very much another layer in there where crap was misattributed to one candidate or the other, or to one candidate's supporters or the other's, when it turns out that it came from some kind of "media" source. And you're right, it's boggling trying to sort out what's what and who said what.
The 24/7 news culture has truly left us less informed than we were before, and trying to sort out fact from fiction is more than a full-time job.
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Agreed. I'm not burnishing a halo for either side in the primary, because yeah, both sides pulled dog whistles on the other, sometimes intentionally, and sometimes by accident (due to not thinking, misspeaking, and just plain ol' exhaustion).
Yet, there's no denying that there was very much another layer in there where crap was misattributed to one candidate or the other, or to one candidate's supporters or the other's, when it turns out that it came from some kind of "media" source. And you're right, it's boggling trying to sort out what's what and who said what.
The 24/7 news culture has truly left us less informed than we were before, and trying to sort out fact from fiction is more than a full-time job.