A Good Tweet!

A big new organization problem these days is that when Trump says or tweets something obviously and insanely false, they just tweet it as a news story, like "President Trump says that Ohio is not a state," without any suggestion that it might possibly not be true. We can debate how much this matters, but even with the president being Trump, reporting things as presidential proclamation gives them the air of truth.

So kudos to NBC. This is how you do it!

BREAKING: Pres. Trump rejects independent study that reports an estimated 2,975 people died in Puerto Rico in 5 months after Hurricane Maria; provides no evidence to discount the study; declares, without evidence, that the higher death toll is political ploy to make him look bad.

— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 13, 2018