A piece on the failures of the U.S. media by Ron Unz, the publisher of
The American Conservative, "is a vital reminder that many things we're told are wrong; that we aren't told many things of
vital importance; and that the U.S. media is rife with flaws, many of them easily identifiable," writes Conor Friedersdorf. Parsing Unz' post, Friedersdorf attempts to explain why the media falls
short, blaming such factors as "excessive deference to government officials."
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