Yes, tweets can be newsworthy, as is the RNC giving a guest pass to a white supremacist.
But it is more newsworthy that a white supremacist with an official press pass has been broadcasting live from inside the RNC on a nationally syndicated radio show favored by white supremacists and anti-government militants.
For one thing, these people did not somehow sneak in. The Trump campaign knows exactly who they are, what they do, and what they represent.
Broadcasting live from the RNC since Tuesday has been a director of the Council of Conservative Citizens (historically known as the “uptown Klan”) whose racist website material has been widely credited with having inspired Dylann Roof, who is accused of having slaughtered, during the summer of 2015, nine African-American members of a Charleston, SC prayer group.
That same individual is a director of the virulently racist American Freedom Party which, among other things, promotes Holocaust denial.
Another reason is that on Tuesday, the radio show in question featured an interview with Donald Trump’s adviser on veterans affairs Al Baldasaro, who suggested Hillary Clinton should be executed for treason.
I am aware of no precedent to this, one of America’s two major political parties granting entrée and validation to such a political tendency.
Only a few short months ago, before the advent of Trump, it would have been unthinkable.
Moreover, mainstream media has chosen to ignore this, and so is helping to mainstream the hate.