127 w/ Brian Stelter “The Holy Order of Journalism, Excommunicating Steve King"
The Fifth Column
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The Steve King Resolution That Is Decrying Him Is Awful and Monstrous
I think there's something about steve king i find to be awful on a number of different levels. I would start with the fact that he is explicitly homophobic. If we're going to excommunicate him from congress, i might not want to do it on this unpersuasive allegation. It took several days for the national medin to relitate this seriously. There were several days of kind of e relatively restrained coverage. And i wonder if that was because folks didn't weren't sure how seriously youd take it. We need newsrooms to have lots of different perspectives.
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