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CJR / Jon Allsop and Pete Vernon / Oct 26, 2020
“Journalists in newsrooms across America are assailing the old notion of ‘objectivity’ as morally inadequate: calling Trump a friend of ‘virulent racists’ isn’t invective but a truth that must be told. For his part, Trump has ruthlessly gamed old-school journalists’ commitment to covering ‘both sides’ of the story, winning more than equal time for his lies, as well as ‘he said, she said’ fig leaves for his obscene behavior.”
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