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.But the author is very correct.A 'free press' is the 5th estate - an important part of civil society.... but it only works if they have integrity.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 'more clicks'.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.Trump is a Loki who exposed a serious degradation in another part of the system and it has to remedied.Sadly, I do not think they will admit their failures, and they will not reform, and as a result, we're going to be having wars over 'fake news' for a long time.Post-Edit: I don't want this to take away from critiquing Trump for some of the awful things that he's said, or some of his questionable policies - my only point is 'the press broke' on this, and it's a legitimate concern. If the press lacks integrity, we lose the ability to hold people to account.