The Reporters Who Proved That Journalism Is More Powerful Than Trump

For many decades, the right has had a consistent critique of journalism: The profession’s purported standards of objectivity and detachment are a hoax. Most reporters and editors are liberal, the argument goes, and whether they realize it or not their coverage tilts undeniably in the same direction. In recent years, however, the new and more interesting arguments in media criticism have come mostly from the left. By these lights,... + full article