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> there hasn't been any negative coverage of Biden and Trump got a total pass from the media.

Are you from the Berenstein alternate reality? Do we have access to entirely-separate streams of media? No president in the united states has EVER avoided negative media coverage.

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I would be greatly entertained by a world with zero negative coverage of Trump, because I assume we would also get the polar opposite of reality elsewhere in life. What's next, Celibate Clinton? Isolationist W? Communist Ford?

Imagine if they banned ad hominem attacks against the president. You can talk shit about the things they do or how terrible their policies are, but the moment you make it personal, it's jailtime.

What a weird reality to consider.

Is this an argument about English libel laws?

... It is not, but now I am curious. Is that a thing in the Britzone?

Yes, from my memory of when a popular fantasy writer was in the mainstream discourse for a while, anybody that even said something remotely negative to her and advertised their location as in the U.K. immediately shut up and apologised after likely receiving legal threats. No anti-SLAPP regulation, either.

I believe it's because they can sue for damages related to the tarnishing of their image, though that may just be universal.

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