From A Murrow Moment To A Murrow Mindset: How Not To Normalize Donald Trump; Huffington Post, 7/11/16

Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post; From A Murrow Moment To A Murrow Mindset: How Not To Normalize Donald Trump:

"You can feel the press itching to normalize Trump, and relieve them from having to reluctantly abandon the safe shelter of “balance” and “objectivity,” and call Trump out. But Trump is a candidate who has broken so many rules of the political process, so the press can use this opportunity to break, and discard, the obsolete rules of political coverage that are clearly not working this cycle. What we need is not just a Murrow moment but a sustained Murrow mindset.

“This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy’s methods to keep silent,” Murrow said on the air in 1954. “We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom wherever it continues to exist in the world. But we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home... Cassius was right. ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.’ Good night, and good luck.”"