A few weeks ago, when Crikey interviewed Masha Gessen, the writer and assiduous chronicler of (among other things) the Trump era in US politics said they were worried the US media was falling into all the same traps as they did in 2016.
Gessen cited a recent experience at a conference at Columbia Journalism School where the editors of various major US publications were asked how they would approach a second Trump presidency. “And they all had a version of a response that was like, ‘Oh, we just have to do our jobs. We know what journalism is.
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