MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
There’s a norm in American political journalism that requires journalists to generally be unfazed by the political disputes they cover, the job of a journalist is to remain neutral and unemotional That tone might be appropriate in normal political disputes, but in the Trump era, it’s made news coverage feel totally inadequate. Many of the news stories of the past few months haven’t been normal; they’ve represented significant breakdowns in democratic norms.