To the Editor: The mainstream media — ABC, NBC, CBS, to name a few — has for years largely ignored Trump’s anti-democratic hate speech in the name of “sanewashing” and “bothsidesism ...
Parker Molloy, writing for The New Republic, recently commented on the phenomenon of "sanewashing" Trump's rhetoric. She argues that this practice is not only a failure of journalism but also a ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Even before the owners of the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post overruled their editorial boards and ...
Also, there has been the “sanewashing” coverage of him in which the media would normalize some of the wild and controversial things he said. University of Maryland journalism professor Tom ...