The Pulitzer committee is yet to respond to a media watchdog’s scathing review of multiple media outlets’ coverage of the now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
The Columbia Journalism Review spent 18 months looking back on the press coverage of the former president in a report published on Jan. 30, and took aim at a number of publications, including The New York Times and the Washington Post for their coverage of what became widely known as “Russiagate.”
“Seven and a half years ago, journalism began a tortured dance with Donald Trump, the man who would be the country’s forty-fifth president—first dismissing him, then embracing him as a source of ratings and clicks, then going all in on efforts to catalogue Trump as a threat to the country (also a great source of ratings and clicks),” the review read….