There have been a few front-page diaries in the past few days which have attacked, with varying degrees of anger, the New York Times and other (primarily) newspapers because when they have broken news revealing the falsehoods being spewed by Trump and his minions, they’ve minced words. The publications have said the Trump stuff is not true, or is contradicted by other evidence. Sometimes they’ve even written that it’s unclear whether Trump or his apologist knew they were wrong when they said or wrote whatever it was.
These diarists here take great exception to the lack of the word ‘lie’ in the text of the articles. How can the ‘paper of record’ not call out Trump with the exact term we want to hear, they say. It’s an abdication of the charter of these publications not to use the words we like, they think.
Never mind that we wouldn’t have known these things if those (primarily) newspapers hadn’t expended all those resources to find them out, so that we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to attack them.
But in the end, what is the point of this kind of criticism? How does it help?