How Journalism Helps Lunacy Become Reality

[Karl Frederick]

You knew it all along, didn't you? Here's an article by Larry Beinhart on the subject:

After the second prime-time Republican presidential debate on Sept. 16, The New York Times published an astonishing editorial. It said the candidates must be “no longer living in a fact-based world” and described what they said as “a collection of assertions so untrue, so bizarre that they form a vision as surreal as the Ronald Reagan jet looming behind the candidates’ lecterns.”

It was about time that someone as authoritative as The New York Times editorial board said it as bluntly as that.

and the rest of the article . . .