Forced to choose between strict neutrality or defending democracy over the past four years, many news outlets opted for the latter, casting Donald Trump as a threat to the nation. This approach dismantled whatever was left of the facade that the media is a disinterested observer of U.S. politics — and created a new crisis for the industry.
I think America’s news media did the right thing and helped to save the country. But while journalists behaved in a way that I would argue was simply small-D democratic, it often looked big-D Democratic, in that it was anti-Trump and therefore anti-Republican Party.
