And at the same time:
The day that Donald Trump proudly welcomed the most anti-Semitic leader in Europe to the White House, the Beltway press managed yet again to completely abdicate its responsibilities by helping Trump launder an ugly, hollow attack against a Muslim member of Congress. Deep into Trump-era stenography mode, reporters and editors routinely and willfully regurgitate any absurd allegation he makes against public officials, and do so under the banner of news. The press continues to play an absolutely central role in spreading Trump's hate and appears to do so without pause or concern about Trump's targets, or about how political journalism is supposed to be practiced. It's one thing for the press to tread timidly around Trump and his radical ways, as journalists refuse, for instance, to accurately dub him a pathological liar. It's another thing entirely to play dumb on such an epic scale, where journalists willingly amplify obviously dishonest attacks.That's what happened this week when Republicans concocted an utterly phony outrage campaign against Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the first Palestinian-American in Congress. She recently gave an interview where she addressed the search for peace in the Middle East.
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