From around 2014 to 2021, two important, long-needed “reckonings” were happening. The mainstream media was reevaluating its coverage of politics and beginning to recognize that its attempt to cover politics “neutrally” had resulted in downplaying how radical and anti-democratic the modern Republican Party had become. Meanwhile, the entire country, including the media, was looking at whether America had done enough to address the deep racial inequality that remained from centuries of