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Rick Massimo's avatar

They keep saying “The story wasn’t about X; it was about Y” as if that’s not the problem.

Republicans are the protagonists in American life—I forget who said that, but it’s how they think.

Which, again, is illustrative. Because the 40-year descent of the Republican Party from being wrong about everything but still a basically normal political party, into an authoritarian ethnonationalist cult of personality working actively to spread a deadly virus—that IS a big story, with Republicans at the center. And the people with the access to tell it refuse to. People would click on it!

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It was somewhat heartening to read the utter disdain expressed in the Twitter thread in response to Stolberg's lazy reporting. We're in the interregnum between a backsliding democracy and authoritarianism, and too many journalists are averting their eyes. Literally every story should be viewed through the lens of whether it bolsters or harms democracy. Journalists pandering to Republicans will not be spared by a SCOTUS systematically eradicating civil rights, especially one that is preparing to eviscerate the libel precedent that has protected the media for decades.

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