In his new book Attack the Messenger, Congressional Quarterly columnist Craig Crawford argues that politicians have joined forces with “advocacy journalists” to discredit the mainstream media. To be sure, Crawford acknowledges, the MSM have brought much of it on themselves. But in Crawford’s view, that makes it no less dangerous that most Americans no longer trust the major national dailies and network news broadcasts. Part of Crawford’s proposed solution entails encouraging journalists at mainstream news organizations to acknowledge their political biases, and thus remove bias from the media debate.

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