“THIS AGAIN??” I thought when I read the Washington Post’s editorial, a couple of weeks before Election Day. The topic was “pink slime” news, a.k.a. political campaign literature made to look like a newspaper. A good issue for journalists to address. But a few paragraphs in came a lazy and familiar trope:
“People know more or less what they’re getting when they tune in to Fox News or open up a copy of . These institutions’ primary purpose