Ex-KKK Leader Running as Republican for Office in Georgia

[JohnSJ]

7. The country is in a very dangerous place right now, and there is a real possibility our democracy

may not survive

In a Washington Post editorial Dana Millbank in his last paragraph he summarized just how complicit the media has been in legitimizing racists, bigots, and sexists:

"We need a skeptical, independent press. But how about being partisans for democracy? The country is in an existential struggle between self-governance and an authoritarian alternative. And we in the news media, collectively, have given equal, if not slightly more favorable, treatment to the authoritarians."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/biden-media-coverage-worse-trump-favorable/

I think this started when Bernard Goldberg who worked for CBS, came out with his book BIAS in 1996, which pushed the premise that "liberal bias pervades the MSM".

It was at that point I saw the shift. It wasn't about reporting FACTS anymore, instead despite what the facts were, it was giving each side a "legitimacy", even if one side was blatantly false.