Rob Pegoraro on Nostr: Hannah-Jones calls weasel wording like "racially tinged" a symptom of journalists ...
Hannah-Jones calls weasel wording like "racially tinged" a symptom of journalists betraying their own unease at stating the obvious. "We can't call Donald Trump a liar, because that makes us look biased," she says, then points out the self-defeating nature of that defensive crouch: "Not telling the truth makes us looks biased."
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