Media watch: ‘Unethical’ Trump-Era Coverage

“A growing number of journalists are taking a hard look” at Trump-era reporting and “concluding that, yes, corporate media behaved terribly,” cheers Becket Adams at the Washington Examiner. “There may be hope yet for this industry.” One: the Columbia Journalism Review’s “decisive four-part takedown of the press’s mishandling of the Trump White House, including their slipshod and oftentimes unethical promotion of the ‘Russian collusion’ narrative.” Two: Matt Taibbi’s “similarly damning report revealing that a go-to ‘source’ for the legacy media’s coverage of online Russian disinformation” (Hamilton 68) “is, in fact, an outright propaganda machine,” though the press, a “supposed bulwark of truth and democracy,” didn’t even pause “to question” whether its source’s “‘data’ points were accurate.”