Opinion: The Media Should Remember Key Lessons from the Trump Era

The Trump era saw some marvelous investigative reporting, including The Post’s David A. Fahrenthold’s investigations of President Trump’s finances and voluminous coverage of impeachment and other Trump scandals. However, mainstream media remained flummoxed for most of the Trump presidency by his and his followers’ willful lying and denial of reality. Many outlets took only baby steps forward during the pandemic and the final run-up to the election in covering the Trump campaign and his supporters.

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