CBS news exec Neeraj Khemlani sends his regrets to Jennifer Rubin

 

Top headline:  Business Insider

Bottom headline:  Washington Post

Excerpt from Jennifer Rubin's op-ed:

Many newsrooms, in their attempt to cover the movement against democracy across the country, have hired more reporters to cover threats to democracy. That’s an important investment, but many outlets are failing to meet the challenge. That’s because they are treating the threats as a free-floating danger as opposed to the operating procedure of one party. 

The nonpartisan group Protect Democracy recently published a guide for media that provides a helpful guide to identifying authoritarians’ playbook. It lists seven tactics: 

1) They attempt to politicize independent institutions. 

2) They spread disinformation. 

3) They aggrandize executive power at the expense of checks and balances. 

4) They quash criticism and dissent. 

5) They specifically target vulnerable or marginalized communities. 

6) They work to corrupt elections. 

7) They stoke violence. It shouldn’t take long to recognize that Donald Trump engaged in virtually all of these.