Not again: ‘Fact-checks,’ both-sidesing, and worse in 2024 coverage

Conservatives have long derided the news media, claiming that outlets are biased against them. And their efforts to work the refs have largely succeeded, with the media regularly giving “both sides” of issues equal weight and thereby warping reality. 

Bothsidesism has been a problem for a long time, but this election cycle has exposed the political media for the sham that it is. And Vice President Kamala Harris is finally doing what conservatives have done for decades, treating political journalists appropriately and no longer pretending they serve a lofty goal in our democracy, because they don’t.