This reflexive tribalism has crippled the journalistic class, hindering its members’ ability to perform their jobs even half competently. The instinct to filter information through a “left good, right bad” filter has prevented them from developing a finely tuned sense of skepticism, whether toward a dubious report they’re conditioned to accept as true or toward friendly sources who are clearly covering up an inconvenient fact. They have grown so accustomed to assuming the worst of their enemies and the noblest intentions of their allies that they have forgotten how to ask basic questions or notice when something is amiss.
Americans have noticed.
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