Second of all, senior editor of the Washington Montly Benjamin Wallace-Wells made a stand-up move in acknowledging in a big way his errors on the Kos piece. Everyone makes mistakes, and in this case, his mistakes were amplified by a sensitive internet. Kudos to Wallace-Wells for acknowledging error.
Finally, one point on the media. I have never liked the term MSM, and I will not use it, because what we do is not in opposition to 'the mainstream'. We are mainstream, we just aren't top-down. It is the right that seeks to craft a narrative where there is a 'mainstream' and then two political partisan groups, because they want to destroy the very language of common political discourse. What we by contrast seek is not an end to a 'mainstream' media, what we seek is a well-functioning and accountable media system. That means restoring accountability to what is a still functional top-down media.
UPDATE: This is not to excuse Wallace-Wells' original piece on Kos, which was just bad. I'll have more on this soon.
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