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They managed to re-create court transcripts after locating stenographic notes and having the shorthand translated.

Sargent's news-side colleagues at the Post seem to have largely heeded his advice, but reporters at the New York Times and many other news organizations continue to dutifully and stenographically recount Trump's rhetoric.

It took Baker a credulous headline, a credulous subhead and two long stenographic paragraphs before even giving readers a hint that Trump had no idea what he was talking about.

Other national outlets seem to have been shaken out of their stenographic stupor, roundly condemning the use of armed federal police to assault protesters in an effort to get the president a cheap photo-op.

Much of the news coverage of Barr's decision last week to drop charges against Trump crony Michael Flynn — on an absurd pretext, accompanied by hypocritical pronouncements — was stenographic, credulous and short-sighted.