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Trump himself probably finds such treatment grossly unfair, since to him “unfair” coverage is anything that doesn’t portray him in the most glowing terms. But it is perhaps ironic that after all this time of wondering how to cover this most unusual candidate, Trump has shown the press that the best way to do it is to cover him like every candidate *should* be covered. That means not just planting a camera at his rallies and marveling at how nuts it all is, but doing the work to fully vet his background, correcting his lies as swiftly and surely as they can, exploring what a Trump presidency would actually mean, and generally doing their jobs without letting him intimidate them.
The Media Have Reached a Turning Point in Covering Donald Trump. He May Not Survive It. - The Washington Post
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An oft-repeated reproach to Slavoj Zizek’s writings is that he’s impossible to understand. In fact, Zizek is sometimes held as an example of a decades-old trend of academic meaninglessness; for example, <a href="https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/07/academic-language-and-the-problem-of-meaninglessness">in this recent article</a>, Nathan J. Robinson shrewdly accuses Zizek of always defending himself against critics by claiming to have been misunderstood.
Why Slavoj Zizek Writes in Convoluted Sentences | Neotenianos
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Deswegen glaub ich auch nicht, dass der aktuelle Ebola-Ausbruch im Kongo groß wird. Im direkten Duell gewinnt die moderne Medizin. Immer.
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