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Of Course Jeff Gerth Is Right about Russiagate

Finally, a little media accountability

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Then-President Donald Trump talks to reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Md., October 28, 2019.

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It isn’t just that the media failed in covering Russiagate during the Trump years. Since then, they have displayed a near-total unwillingness to examine their role in whipping up a national hysteria based on paranoia and confirmation bias.

In other words, the media have piled a lack of accountability on top of their original sins of journalistic incompetence and ideological malice.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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