Knives to a Gunfight (Redux)
12 min readNov 13, 2020
Over the past week, we have wrestled with a problem well described by the Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan:
How do you cover something that, at worst, lays the groundwork for a coup attempt and, at best, represents a brazen lie that could be deeply damaging to American democracy?
“You don’t want to fearmonger. You don’t want to underplay something this dangerous, either,” Noah…