Dan Gillmor on Nostr: Big Journalism is treating the likely ascension of one of the most evil politicians ...

Big Journalism is treating the likely ascension of one of the most evil politicians of our era -- Jim Jordan -- to House Speaker as just another political horse race.

Democracy itself is on life support and it's still pretty much business as usual in most of our news media.

Oh, sure, the commentators see what's going on, and are permitted to say so. But the "news" sections/pages are still pretending.