A clever bit of media optics here: one reason they don’t need to apologize is they’ve made themselves the representatives of the people who think they’re owed the apologies. Fox accepts apologies in behalf of the Trumpist right, the NYT etc on behalf of everybody else.
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Yellow journalism never actually went away. It just bought a nice suit and cleaned up its language a bit. That’s why we’ll never hear an apology from regular media of the sort we heard from Facebook.
They’ve invested in a century of image management just for times like this.
