Media must 'fight their own DNA' to properly cover the redacted Mueller report, sulliview writes
By Margaret Sullivan Margaret Sullivan Media columnist Email Bio Follow Media columnist April 17 at 6:00 AM It’s certainly possible that the news media will do a nuanced, accurate job Thursday of helping citizens understand the redacted version of the Mueller report.
“This is a case where the media will have to fight their own DNA,” he told me, to get across the complexity at the heart of the report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.“Put the reporters up front and put the opinionators to the side for a good long while,” he said. Making matters worse, the report is said to be nearly 400 pages long, and is likely to contain heavy redactions of sensitive material.
Plenty of media figures and news organizations picked up Trump’s spin and ran with it — at least at first. Cooler heads — and more-nuanced reporting — eventually prevailed. But by then, the story line had been set.
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