OPINION: RFK Jr. has no chance of winning the Democratic nomination and he is not so much running for president as he is seeking a platform for his bevy of conspiracy theories.
, he blames the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky and “American NeoCons” for provoking the conflict.
Journalists make these coverage decisions all the time. It’s why the public utterances of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are routinely news, while former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchison or North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum could walk into the newsroom of a major media organization and may or may not get noticed. Certainly, journalists are not fighting for room on the campaign bus to report on Marianne Williamson, who is also challenging Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.
Jean Tobin wears a hat reading "Make Vaccine Manufacturers Liable Again" before a speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announcing his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 19, 2023.Giving him a larger platform to spout his conspiracy theories and portraying him as a serious candidate could literally have deadly consequences.
Kennedy is not like Trump, another regular purveyor of conspiracy theories and easily disproved lies. Some news organizations tried to ignore Trump when he first ran for president in 2015 . But it soon became clear that the reality show star had a genuine following within the Republican Party. Today, Trump is a former president, a legitimate candidate, and the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination. The press must cover him, for better or worse .
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