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10. MSNBC host Joy Reid
That same year, MSNBC host Joy Reid pointed out that media coverage of Hitler was “benign” in the 1930s, implying that the media was making the same mistake with Trump, by not pushing back harder.
“I have this set of old New York Times front covers — to show how benign the coverage was, even in the 1930s, as the world was about to burn down in World War II,” said Reid. “And the just sort of benign things, you know, it’s like a tick of wanting to see world leaders — in that case of Germany — they just want to see them as normal, and I don’t know where that comes from.”
“And I think it wouldn’t be so if those leaders were not white men, I have to say,” added Reid. “White conservatives — there is a sense that conservatism is normal, and that white conservative men are the norm.”Share
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