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Journalism’s climate of partisan fear

Columbia Journalism Review · last updated

In mid-October, when former top White House and military aides to Donald Trump went on the record calling the former president “fascist to the core” and an admirer of Hitler, mainstream US news coverage of the 2024 election seemed to turn a page. Suddenly, a reality that reporters and editors had recognized privately—that Trump shows no respect for democracy and has pledged, if reelected, to govern like a dictator, using the military against his political opponents—was being reported openly by leading newspapers and TV networks. The public was finally let in on what many media insiders had long been talking about among themselves.

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