A new year brings hope for a fresh start. No one needs a reset more than the legacy media, which has lost most people’s trust through its failure to report the news without fear or favor.
Luckily, the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, AP, CNN, and all the rest have a chance to make amends thanks to a barnburner of a scandal – the years-long efforts to hide President Biden’s diminished capacities even as his administration pursued transformational policies. Unpeeling this rotten onion would allow news outlets to showcase their reporting chops on a massive story they were deeply complicit in covering up. They would have to detail not only White House perfidy but their own.