2024年美国总统选举期间，媒体对特朗普的报道中出现了一种被称为"理智漂白"的现象，即记者倾向于强调其言论中的连贯部分，而淡化或延后报道其不连贯之处。[1]
研究人员对特朗普的关键演讲进行了计算分析发现，9月5日一场演讲中，特朗普对儿童保育问题给出了长达374字但内容混乱的回答。[1]《纽约时报》对该事件的报道中，标题聚焦于"特朗普呼吁设立效率委员会，这是埃隆·马斯克推动的想法"，直到第24段才提及他的"支离破碎且漫无边际的回答"。[1]
媒体的选择性报道体现在多个方面。记者通常关注特朗普言论中的一两个关键主题，并用与其本人不同的语言进行表述。[1]不同媒体平台的做法也存在差异：在线媒体倾向于使用更直率的措辞（如"怪异"和"离奇"）来描述特朗普的不连贯表现，而传统媒体则多采用相对中立的表达方式（如"漫无边际"和"不稳定"）。[1]
Research examining media coverage of Donald Trump during the 2024 U.S. presidential election has identified a pattern whereby journalists selectively highlight the coherent elements of his statements while downplaying incoherence.[1] During a September 5, 2024 speech, Trump delivered a 374-word response on childcare that was substantively meaningless.[1] The New York Times headline covering the event focused on Trump's call for an efficiency commission, an idea associated with Elon Musk, relegating his "jumbled and meandering answer" to the 24th paragraph.[1]
Analysis of media coverage reveals that reporters tend to isolate one or two key themes from Trump's remarks and reframe them using language distinct from his own.[1] Notably, coverage patterns differ between media outlets: online media outlets employ more forceful language such as "weird" and "bizarre" when describing his incoherence, while traditional media outlets favor more neutral terms like "meandering" and "erratic."[1] Researchers conducting this computational analysis of major speeches found that while journalists do demonstrate a tendency to emphasize coherent portions of Trump's statements over their disjointed counterparts, this phenomenon is not uniformly applied across all outlets and coverage types.[1]
