Members of the journalism community also have to take a long hard look at their performance during the entire Russia- gate scandal. Simply put, it's been terrible. Too many reporters and editors too eagerly embraced the Trump-Russia-collusion narrative as fact. The cardinal rule of journalism --- to show skepticism and think critically --- was tossed out the window. As a result, numerous "major" stories turned out to be wrong. CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times and the Washington Post, all made mistakes or over-hyped many of the Trump-Russia stories.
What caused the press failures? Part of it was the desire of reporters to be the next Woodward-Bernstein, to break that big Watergate-style story that brings down a president. In other cases reporters were too cozy with members of the intelligence community, and they willingly spit out a false story line.
Over the years, I've had little use for conservative media. Often I find conservative pundits completely off- base. But on Trump-Russia collusion, outlets like FOX --- which consistently questioned the conspiracy narrative --- got it right. They deserve credit.
The nation has been through a lot during the last three years of Russia-gate. There's been an abuse of power by top officials of our government. The democratic process has been undermined. Journalists have shown a lack of professionalism in covering the story.
Now, there has to be a reckoning.
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