The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank believes that he has hit upon a journalistic scandal. “After a honeymoon of slightly positive coverage in the first three months of the year,” Milbank wrote last week, President “Biden’s press for the past four months has been as bad as — and for a time worse than — the coverage Trump received for the same four months of 2020.” This is a problem, he added, because it has led to the “news media” giving “equal, if not slightly more favorable, treatment to the authoritarians,” and thereby “serving as accessories to the murder of democracy.” On CNN yesterday morning, Milbank expanded his argument. “We see it as our job to be negative, to be adversarial,” he said. “But there’s a real problem when we are being just as adversarial ‘cuz a guy didn’t pass a bill as we are when a guy is trying to overthrow democracy.”
If, upon reading this, you thought to yourself, “there is no human being alive who could possibly have concluded that this is happening” . . . well, then you were correct, because it turns out that no human being alive did conclude that this is happening. Instead, Milbank’s evidence — which he describes hilariously as “painstakingly assembled” “proof” — came from a bunch of servers. “At my request,” he explained, “Forge.ai, a data analytics unit of the information company FiscalNote
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