The Daily Beast's Coverage Of The Killing Of Ma’khia Bryant Has Been Wildly Irresponsible

A dark example of rightside norms at their worst

I’ve banged on for a long time in this newsletter about the nosediving standards that are turning mainstream journalism into a laughingstock, and the potential pitfalls of the recent, deceptively-named turn toward “moral clarity” — an approach that sounds good in practice but which seems to be applied in a selective, ideologically driven way that often …