Some good suggestions for the mass media to begin the work to reestablishing a common reality which was so terribly shredded during the last several years are provided by Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post
Allowing a voter to claim that election officials keep “finding” ballots in heavily Democratic areas without extensively debunking the assertion, without devoting even a single sentence refuting that person, is misleading to viewers and undermines truth and the democratic process.
Mainstream media needs to do a much better job denying a platform to irrational voices who operate in a fact-free world. Republicans need to police not only their own fellow Republicans but also the right-wing media that helps to radicalize their base and makes its viewers paranoid, ill-informed and angry. And Fox News needs to decide if it wants to be a news organization with opinion shows or a disinformation machine that tears at the fabric of our democracy.
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