A hellscape of lies and distorted reality awaits journalists covering President Trump

[CousinIT]

. . .Trump will be what columnist Frida Ghitis of the Miami Herald calls “the gaslighter in chief” — that he will pull out all the stops to make people think that they should believe him, not their own eyes. (“Gaslighting” is a reference to the 1940s movie in which a manipulative husband psychologically abuses his wife by denying the reality that the gaslights in their home are growing dimmer and dimmer.)

“The techniques,” Ghitis wrote, “include saying and doing things and then denying it, blaming others for misunderstanding, disparaging their concerns as oversensitivity, claiming outrageous statements were jokes or misunderstandings, and other forms of twilighting the truth.”

But that’s just part of what experience teaches us to expect from Trump.

Here’s another: Trump will punish journalists for doing their jobs. Famously touchy and unable to endure serious scrutiny, he has always been litigious — although, as journalist Tim O’Brien has pointed out based on Trump’s failed suit against him, sometimes unsuccessfully so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-hellscape-of-lies-and-distorted-reality-awaits-journalists-covering-president-trump/2017/01/15/3656a17e-d90f-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html

[Squinch]

1. This doesn't need to be true. It is only true if they engage with his distraction techniques.

They need to agree among themselves to minimize attention to tweets and distractions and to report extensively on
a) The EXTENT of his lies rather than every single lie which exhausts those of us reading about them and
b) His actual ACTIONS.

A weekly rundown of the lies

Daily stories of his actions and their ramifications.

This will drown out the white noise he is so adept at creating.

And they need to write a firestorm of stories investigating the co-opting of our electoral and intelligence systems by Russia.

[dalton99a]

2. Move his daily diarrhea to the sideline, and report on what he is doing with the GOP

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. K&R