WashPost Media Columnist: We Haven't Obsessed Over 1/6 or Trump Enough
Tim Graham
January 3rd, 2022 2:14 PM
The idea of objectivity or balance or fairness in reporting has taken a beating since Donald Trump arrived in national politics. What’s dominant today is the media elite constantly encouraging each other that their product is never activist enough.
Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan was thumping the tub with a new vigor on Monday under the headline “If American democracy is going to survive, the media must make this crucial shift.” The crucial shift? More activism. More overt grabbing readers and viewers by the lapels and scaring them. "Shout it from the rooftops," she insisted.
"That American democracy is teetering is unquestionable. Jan. 6 is every day now, in the words of a recent New York Times editorial," she said. So the media isn't obsessing over Trump and 1/6? Really? Sullivan had to admit: "To be sure, even some of the most studiously neutral of news organizations are doing important journalism on this subject."
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