According to the writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit, US media are failing to cover Donald Trump properly. “His incapacity to be coherent is pretty much hidden from the public, unless they’re listening directly or reading alternative media,” she says.

Solnit, whose essay Men Explain Things To Me inspired the word “mansplaining”, says she’s convinced that the US mainstream press—including the New York Times—are “sanewashing” the former president and the gibberish he has spouted during the election campaign.

Instead of showing how rambling and off-topic he is, they piece together fragments of his speeches to come up with a few crisp sentences.

Solnit joined Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber on the latest episode of the Media Confidential podcast.

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