Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
Disclosure: I deeply loathe Trump, and I think he is unfit for office; very glad to see Mueller investigation initiated, because there was a lot of smoke and it needed to happen.<p>But the author is very correct.<p>A &#x27;free press&#x27; is the 5th estate - an important part of civil society.<p>... but it only works if they have integrity.<p>Over the last two years it has become clear how narrow and biased they have become in their contempt for Trump and of course in search of &#x27;more clicks&#x27;.<p>This is a deep wound for America that I do not think we can blame on Trump himself, however much some of us may loathe him.<p>Trump is a Loki who exposed a serious degradation in another part of the system and it has to remedied.<p>Sadly, I do not think they will admit their failures, and they will not reform, and as a result, we&#x27;re going to be having wars over &#x27;fake news&#x27; for a long time.<p>Post-Edit: I don&#x27;t want this to take away from critiquing Trump for some of the awful things that he&#x27;s said, or some of his questionable policies - my only point is &#x27;the press broke&#x27; on this, and it&#x27;s a legitimate concern. If the press lacks integrity, we lose the ability to hold people to account.