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As the third anniversary of the deadly January 6 insurrection approaches this weekend, one columnist is calling on journalists and editors to stop treating the future of democracy like a standard partisan issue. In her latest column for The Guardian, Margaret Sullivan expressed her frustration about the beltway media’s tendency to find a both-sides angle when covering former President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to democracy. “In a constant show of performative neutrality, journalists tend to equalize the unequal, taking coverage down the middle even though that’s not where true fairness l…

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