
Article in Common Dreams by Stephen Prager, 10/3/25
Headline: “Media Faces Reckoning After Helping Trump Downplay Project 2025 on Campaign Trail”
Subhead: ” ‘A Trump denial is not a fact,’ said one media critic.”
“As President Donald Trump openly embraces Project 2025, mainstream media outlets are facing criticism for their role in helping him downplay his ties to the wildly unpopular far-right governing playbook in the lead-up to his reelection last year. . .”
“She [Kamala Harris] and other Democrats warned that if he retook power, he would swiftly enact many of its most extreme and unpopular proposals and dramatically expand executive power while doing it. . .”
“After nine months back in power, the website Project 2025 Tracker estimates that Trump has already implemented approximately 48% . . .”
“ ‘Nothing showed the difference between mainstream and independent media better than the response to Trump’s obvious lie about not knowing anything about Project 2025,’ said David Pepper, author of the book Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual.”
Read the full article at:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/project-2025-media-backlash