Remember December 1, 2016?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But if you don’t, I consider it my mission to make sure that date lives on – dare I say, in infamy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was the date that reps from the New York Times and Washington Post newsrooms went on the air and told the nation…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
…well, the tiny, self-selecting part of the nation that listens to NPR on the weekend – that it was time for the news media to stop playing by the rules<\/a> that they always told the nation they played by, the whole “telling people the facts and let them draw their own concusions” thing, and started using their power to “de-normalize” President Trump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And almost four years later, here we are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n