Even before a left-wing mob laid siege to conservative commentator Tucker Carlson’s house, the publication on Twitter of the home address of liberal journalist Matthew Yglesias, and the White House stripping CNN’s Jim Acosta of his press credentials after he verbally sparred with the president, many journalists were nervous that they had become targets in a politically polarized country. Hundreds of news publications coordinated simultaneous editorials condemning President Donald Trump’s criticism of the news media.
But in a country divided between political factions that increasingly hate each other, most of the media have chosen sides. That makes them participants in, rather than observers of, the strife around us, writes J.D. Tuccille. And having joined the melee, journalists, like other Americans, will have an easier time of it only when government is rendered less dangerous and the struggle for power stops mattering so much.
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