Nope. I harp on the need to build a partisan press for this reason: major media institutions have had enough time that if they could improve themselves to meet the moment, they’d by now have done so.
In the past few decades we have mostly been laissez-faire, hard libertarian, about our media.
But media is intertwined with democracy, and there are structural things we can change to make media better: e.g. consolidation and ownership rules, public subsidy in some form, etc.
Yes! I love this book on Lincoln’s interactions with a partisan press.
And as @danancona.bsky.social has said, Crooked is effectively this— a media outlet that has a POV and is open about it.
