Veteran journalist Margaret Sullivan takes her journalistic guild to task for its response to the serious threat to US democracy right now. Key problems she identifies:

1. News organizations have turned Biden’s age (granted, a legitimate concern) into the equivalent of a scandal

2. The evidence-free Biden impeachment efforts in the House of Representatives are presented to news consumers without sufficient context.

#MediaFail #democracy #Biden #Trump

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/15/trump-biden-mainstream-politics-news-coverage