By adulterating their news reporting with crass and transparently biased opinion, by creating false histories such as the New York Times’ 1619 Project, and by displaying a pervasive and fanatical anti-Trump bias, the mainstream media no longer practice even minimally satisfactory journalism.
Which is why, whenever and however our coronavirus nightmare ends, it’s imperative that the country mobilize to create new and better players in the news business.
It won’t be easy and it won’t be cheap, but it can be done with the right kind of reporters and editors, and the right kind of financial backers. At a minimum there needs to be one national newspaper serving a general audience, and one cable news channel, both of which practice a strictly objective form of news and feature reporting.
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