Article in The Nation by John Walsh, 10/21/24

Headline: “Finally, Trump’s Derangement Is Breaking Through in the Media”

Subhead: “It took a reference to Arnold Palmer’s penis to get more mainstream reporters to tell it like it is. That’s progress.”

“Mainstream news organizations suddenly became more blunt about Trump’s decline—and derangement. Trump’s age finally catches up with him,” The Washington Post wrote Saturday. “Trump kicks off Pennsylvania rally by talking about Arnold Palmer’s genitalia,” AP headlined its coverage of the Latrobe debacle. “Donald Trump’s vulgar rally ramble fuels questions about his state of mind,” the Financial Times wrote.”

“. . . As always, The New York Times immediately “sane-washed” the story. On its breaking-news politics page, a short report said Trump told “golf stories” about Palmer without mentioning his lewd remark. But shockingly, after wide social-media outcry, reporter Michael Gold told a critic to direct his questions to senioreditor@nytimes.com, because “I filed something that included the thing you mention as omitted, but I’m not given the power to publish what I say.”

“. . . But overall, the major media seems more ready to tell the truth about Trump. All of the Sunday shows covered his Palmer remarks and the other evidence of not just vulgarity but potential mental decline.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-cognitive-decline-media/