"People Get Subpoenas, Shit Gets Real"...

[procon]

2. This is a highly critical article on the consequences of weak journalism.

We all know Trump's "entire administrations and political parties and business and media interests are mobilized to obfuscate, deny, and lie on behalf of a president."

A free press is not supposed to be fair or balanced, but confrontational and aggressively sceptical.

Aggressive, always-on skepticism: it must be the media’s enduring posture with the Trump administration and its allies and its attempts to diminish what’s under investigation. For the public and the press, our north star, even in moments of doubt, has to be the knowledge that it’s all probably worse than we think it is. That’s always how political scandals work. To take Raelyn Johnson’s (John Edwards baby mama) analogy a step further: where there is smoke, there is fire. What about when there are four dozen fires, all burning simultaneously in the same house?