Here's an urgently needed, pre-election reform plan for the media

Journalism is important, and doing it right is crucial.

A non-partisan, grassroots organization called the Media and Democracy Project has just published an open letter to executives, publishers and union leaders of major media organizations.

You might recognize the names of some of the nearly 4,000 letter signers: Norman Ornstein, Mark Jacob and Ruth Ben-Ghiat. I have respect for each one of them and their perspectives, and have quoted them all in my own work.

Here’s what Ornstein, an emeritus scholar of the American Enterprise Institute, had to say: “Democracy is at stake — and as the open letter so powerfully demands, we need our news media to step up and be responsible.”

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