To amplify Trump? Or not to amplify? There’s actually a good answer. by Dan Froomkin

The dilemma that the news media has been ineffectually wrestling with is how to address the increasingly incendiary, deceptive, and grotesquely cruel rhetoric spewed by the lifelong criminal who is the Republican party’s standard bearer. As Dan Froomkin points on in this piece, published by Press Watch, the solution isn’t actually that difficult. The press has got to stop acting as if a major party candidate behaving this abhorrently — calling for violent retribution against those who disagree with or disparage him, for example — is just something that happens, and then they’ve got to collectively respond accordingly.

America’s Political Turmoil by David Leonhardt

There was one welcome change in the general positioning of news stories this week. With the unprecedented ousting of the Speaker of the House, I’ve noticed a number of journalists that have made it clear the dysfunction on display is attributable to one political party and one political party alone. That hasn’t usually been the case as Republican toxicity has spread rampantly in recent years. Fear over accusations of bias (mostly made in bad faith, it’s worth noting) has led to ludicrous contortions that posit that maybe Democrats are just as worthy of scorn and blame for the broken systems of governance. David Leonhardt’s lead piece in one of this past week’s morning newsletters from The New York Times is plain about who the malicious actors are.

The Climate Fight Will Be Won in the Appliance Aisle by Robinson Meyer

The Biden administration has made tremendous strides in the two and a half years they’ve governed from the White House, but the media remains fixated on his advanced age and the biting tendencies of one of his rescue dogs. It’s incumbent on the hard workers in the executive branch to find ways to tell the story of how legislation such as the Inflation Reduction Act is having a positive affect on people’s lives and what steps they can take to get even more out of the programs that are available. Robinson Meyer writes convincingly about this topic for The New York Times.