From an email from Mother Jones:
You can’t make this up.
During congressional hearings about an attempted coup built entirely on lies—hearings where we learned chilling facts about how too many people who knew the truth failed to defend it—it was easy to miss a small bit of news in the field of journalism that speaks volumes.
The new head of one of America’s—and the world’s—most powerful news organizations frowns on his staff using the term “the Big Lie.” No, this is not an Onion headline. It is exactly the kind of performative detachment that has done a lot to get us into this mess to begin with.
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