United States | The partisan press

How American journalism lets down readers and voters

The New York Times and other media increasingly speak to their own camps

Photograph: Alamy

TO HEAL THE rifts in American politics in the lead-up to next year’s crucial election, American journalism urgently needs renewal. Instead, in much of the mainstream media, journalism is in the grip of an illiberal bias. That includes the New York Times, which is best-placed of any of the country’s newspapers to establish a common set of facts and frame of debate.

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