Media’s Russiagate Self-Mutilation

A former newspaper colleague of mine, now retired from daily journalism, sends me this eye-popping piece in Columbia Journalism Review, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times investigative reporter Jeff Gerth. Gerth is a legend among investigative journalists. It's a monumental takedown of the way the media covered President Donald Trump. My old colleague writes, "It's going to cause a shitstorm in the world of journalism.  Exploring this topic is like lancing a boil. Painful, but necessary."

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