Mainstream media is playing a dangerous game: mental health experts

Mainstream media is playing a dangerous game: mental health experts

President Donald Trump is a habitual liar who may also suffer from serious mental illness, a seasoned journalist argued on Monday — but the mainstream media is too cowardly to call it out.“For a while now, I’ve been imploring the leaders of our top news organizations to call out Donald Trump’s derangement,” wrote Dan Froomkin, editor of Press Watch and former journalist at The Huffington Post and The Intercept. “My argument is simple: It is the …

Can news organizations at least stipulate that Trump is untrustworthy?

For a while now, I’ve been imploring the leaders of our top news organizations to call out Donald Trump’s derangement. My argument is simple: It is the central, underlying explanation for everything else they’re covering. They won’t do it. Their arguments: It would appear partisan; We don’t want to take sides; And (more reasonably) we prohibit the use of language associated with mental illness unless a person has been diagnosed as mentally ill. …