A media wired for RFK Jr.
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Gil Durán and Don Moynihan point out how the Secretary of Child Murder has been able to exploit journalistic conventions of printing the statements of public officials at face value, which does the job propagandists want done even you you debunk them later in the text:
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
[image or embed]— Gil Durán (@gilduran.com) Nov 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.— Gil Durán (@gilduran.com) Nov 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We will have more about the most unethical RFK Jr. media scandal shortly, as the review come in on what is apparently one of the worst heavily-promoted books ever written, but even a lot of the coverage of RFK Jr. on the part of reporters who don’t want to literally have his children has been pretty bad, even as whooping cough and measles make their triumphant return.