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Or, let me suggest a simple formula, as someone fearing far-right authoritarianism, AND agreeing that Biden is well past his prime. I recommend every moral journalist to do the sandwich<\/em><\/strong>: —<\/p>\n\n\n\n [Added a day later] No further explanations needed, I hope. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some notes I left on Bluesky, slightly before and on the immediate aftermath of the shooting at the GOP rally, with minor elaborations. — In every sane timeline, this should lead to a bipartisan (read: the GOP finally rediscovering decency), society-wide reform on gun safety and strengthened ethics oversight on incitements of political violence. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,35],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-photojournalism","tag-truth-sandwich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capcold.net\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capcold.net\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capcold.net\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capcold.net\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capcold.net\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capcold.net\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/capcold.net\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capcold.net\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capcold.net\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capcold.net\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capcold.net\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
1. Start article with the unfitness of Trump.
2. Explain how Harris would do better.
3. End article by introducing segments from Project 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seems many people didn’t get the Riefenstahl reference, so let’s try it another way: yes, that was a well-structured, dramatic “photo.” But it was simply crappy and unethical “journalism.” Instead of pursuing the truth of the social damage, it simply glorifies the person as intended by said person.
What should be done instead? One way would be to use the power of the image to DECONSTRUCT intentions, revealing the larger truth.
Example: in July 2020, Trump put reporters in specific seats so that every picture should become like the top image. Most photo “journalists” spinelessly went along with that. But Alex Brandon of AP took the picture on the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/capcold.net\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-1-842x1024.png\")
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