News media irresponsibly prints and reports Donald Trump lies before providing the truth

Plea to #LameStreamMedia- As Maine Writer, I am appalled by the media coverage about the Donald Trump threat to democracy.....in fact, all these media people just requote whatever Trump said in his most recent incoherent rants. Then, that becomes the days news!  Hardly any objective analysis. I am sick of "man on the street" impromptu interviews with people who are obviously reticent to respond to a microphone stuck in their faces. 

Echo opinion letter published in the Boston Globe:

Please, news media, do not fall for his schtick

I am shocked by how little journalists have learned after nine years of covering Donald Trump. Since the human mind is more likely to remember information presented to it first, journalists have been repeatedly urged not to print Trump’s lies before presenting the truth that contradicts his lies. Yet on the front page of the Globe on Aug. 1 over a New York Times news service story, the headline read, “Trump attacks Harris over racial identity” and the subhead read, “Tells Black journalists she was Indian, ‘made a turn.’ ”

The article citing Trump’s remarks about Vice President Kamala Harris, his likely presidential opponent, continued on the back page of the front section with the headline “Trump attacks Harris over racial identity, says she became Black.” But in the article’s third paragraph the reader was told, “Headlines from her earliest political victories dating back to the early 2000s highlighted both identities.”

The way the mainstream media covered Donald Trump during the 2016, presidential campaign made many believe they were complicit in getting him elected. I fear that they might help him get elected again in 2024.

From Michael Biales in Acton Massachusetts