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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway\/The Daily Beast\/Getty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Only swift and forceful change can save us from 2022 further extending the chaos around us today<\/p>\n

Lorraine Ali<\/h4>\n

 <\/p>\n

This time last year, there was a cruel joke in circulation: The most spiteful year in recent memory would reset itself at midnight on Dec. 31, and we\u2019d be\u00a0forced to relive 2020\u00a0from the beginning.<\/p>\n

Funny, right? Not really. But we could tell the joke then because we finally had some hope. The worst 12 months ever were behind us, with their burnt offerings of deadly pandemic, political race-baiting, violent uprisings, QAnon absurdity and toilet paper hoarders. We had a new president-elect, access to life-saving vaccines, a peaceful election and a\u00a0rebounding Charmin supply.<\/p>\n

Little did we know that 2021 would be hellbent on stealing the apocalyptic crown from 2020. Its opening number?\u00a0A deadly attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol building\u00a0and the rise of the delta variant. Its closing salvo? Omicron and congressional hearings that have revealed that the calls to overturn the election results were indeed\u00a0coming from inside the White House.<\/p>\n

The long-haul chaos culminated in 2021, exhausting traditional newsgathering organizations while energizing the far-right media.\u00a0Fox News, social media juggernaut Facebook and a constellation of hard-right outlets reveled in the fear of uncertain times, sowing doubt among their followers about the election outcome, vaccinations and the alarming wokeness of \u201cSesame Street.\u201d Toxic entertainment for toxic times, still in demand, even after their showy champion lost the White House. The comparatively traditional news media \u2014 Beltway reporters, network nightly news, morning shows, Sunday programs \u2014 showed up to this poison-tipped knife fight with plastic sporks.<\/p>\n

To be fair, the D.C. press was already depleted, thanks to covering a new fresh hell every hour since 2016. Disproving disinformation (i.e., doing their job) made them targets of a president and a press arm that advocated violence. Who can blame them for breathing a sigh of relief when Joe Biden\u2019s presidential win promised them a respite of politics as usual.<\/p>\n

The problem is that \u201cboth-sides journalism,\u201d as it\u2019s come to be called, has outlived the \u201cfairness doctrine\u201d that created it, which was abolished in 1987 under then-President Reagan. The careful, equitable reporting of \u201cPBS NewsHour\u201d and NPR remains a valuable public service, but in this age of extremes, the point-counterpoint structure is sorely out of step with the bombast of politicians like U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and the fact-bending screeds of hangers-on like Rudy Giuliani.<\/p>\n

Getting to the bottom of anything requires it having an actual bottom, and that\u2019s an issue in a parallel news universe where lifesaver Dr. Anthony Fauci is a demon, climate change is a hoax and ingesting horse dewormer is safer than a Pfizer shot in the arm. How does one logically debate the politicization of COVID-19 in a traditional talk-show forum without giving a platform to the very folks who\u2019ve spun these deadly lies?<\/p>\n

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Kyle Rittenhouse poses for a Proud Boys photo, flashing the white supremacy sign.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s not a problem for those leading the charge. Take Fox News host Tucker Carlson. He\u2019s behind a three-part series that promotes unfounded and disproved conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 siege \u2014 make-believe narratives presented as fact. On an ostensibly \u201cmainstream\u201d network, watched by millions.<\/p>\n

In his adoring interview with \u201cnice kid\u201d Kyle Rittenhouse \u2014 the teen who brought an AR-15 rifle to a Black Lives Matter protest and who was charged with killing two unarmed men and maiming another \u2014 Carlson assured viewers that Rittenhouse was a patriot, not a racist. He never mentioned a widely circulated photo of the \u201csweet kid\u201d in a bar flashing white-power signs with Proud Boy members, wearing a \u201cFree as Fuck\u201d tee-shirt. And in that siloed universe, no one was there to challenge him. The teen\u2019s acquittal emboldened would-be vigilantes and mass shooters. Social media helped reach them. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R.-N.C. took to Instagram Live to rally his followers: \u201cBe armed, be dangerous, and be moral.\u201d<\/p>\n

The asymmetrical nature of the media is both a byproduct of and a fuel for the asymmetrical nature of modern partisanship: While Todd is interviewing Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, about practical ways of surviving the pandemic, Fox Nation host Lara Logan is comparing Biden\u2019s chief medical adviser\u00a0to Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele.<\/p>\n

In these circumstances, even newsrooms not in thrall to the hard-right cabal would be hard-pressed to strike the right tone, to see the big picture, to earn the consumer\u2019s trust. But as social media\u2019s dominance deepens and right-wing platforms grow, mainstream media are in crisis and local newspapers are in a fight for survival against venture capitalists.<\/p>\n

After an overwhelming year, in a challenging-in-the-best-of-times business, it might seem harsh to blame the old-school press for not assembling the pieces of the puzzle into a warning siren for our system of government. But it isn\u2019t enough to hope that 2022 will magically offer solutions to either our media crisis or our democratic one. It will require swift and forceful change. Otherwise, the joke\u2019s on us.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nThis commentary appeared in print in the Mercury News on Dec. 26, 2021 and is published here by arrangement with the author.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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