Over the last two weeks, media watchers and critics have written about the “sanewashing” of Trump, which is the practice of selectively quoting his speeches to make them sound more coherent than they actually are. NPR listeners have also sent us letters all year critiquing public radio for packaging Trump’s ideas into news stories as if they are sensible suggestions, for making Trump seem “normal.” We have not received these types of complaints concerning his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris.
We reached out to Frank Sesno, a veteran broadcast political reporter and a professor at the George Washington University School of Media & Public Affairs. He agrees with the letter-writers who expressed their concerns.
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