Press Watch: Big Journalism is completely failing to deliver the big picture on impeachment trial
Posted on AllSides January 22nd, 2020
From The Left
The first real day of Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate was an epic exercise in raw political power. The Trump team, effectively led by Mitch McConnell, put forth no plausible arguments to support their position. They didn't have to — because they had the votes.
But the media failed to tell that story.
If you were dependent on the coverage from our biggest and most influential media outlets, what you learned was mostly that there was a spirited debate and that McConnell made a concession.
That's just...
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