Quote Of The Day -- The Non-Reckoning

"The question of how to scrutinize presidential candidates who aren’t congenitally dishonest, corrupt, or incompetent—when their opponent is Donald Trump—has been vexing journalists since before the 2016 election. Back then, their refusal to faithfully convey the differences between the candidates on matters of basic fitness for office handed Trump the presidency, and ignited widespread calls for the industry to reckon with its failures.

"Three years later, a reckoning has not happened, and in its absence, Trump has set about trying to recreate conditions under which the press will hound his 2020 opponent about a small number of trivial sins while his ubiquitous, mortal ones dissipate into the background."  Brian Beutler, on how "The 2016 Emails Nightmare Is About To Repeat Itself." We've said this many times before, but corporate journalism is as amoral as the existential threat in the Oval Office, and shares at least one basic characteristic:  it's all about the money.