The top of the Wednesday New York Times offers quite a contrast in headlines: a whiny piece on how Donald Trump may be gaining because of America’s “collective amnesia,” next to a puff piece “White House Memo” on “Campaign Shifts Strategy to Let Biden Be Himself.” As if he isn’t authentically fumbling and bumbling?
Reporter Jennifer Medina and Reid Epstein began their story “Passing Years Cloud Memory of Trump Term” as if Trump has completely vanished from public consciousness, as if the media haven’t obsessed over Trump daily, even hourly while Biden was president:
Not all that long ago, many Americans committed hours a day to tracking then-President Donald J. Trump’s every move. And then, sometime after the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and before his first indictment, they largely stopped.
They are having trouble…
