The Democracy Summit

It was hosted recently by the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard University. As the last election made clear, democracy is under constant threat. And it is journalism's duty to report on it instead of engaging in the false equivalence of bothsideism. 

"Our mandate as journalists must be to choose truth over power and to understand that truth is not partisan. We are talking about having a single standard of supporting democracy and how it operates for both parties. And if, in the application of that standard, one of the two parties has turned anti-democratic, it is incumbent on journalists to report that fact."

"If we are clear-eyed about what we are observing, we journalists will report that one wing of one of our two major political parties has become radicalized against multiracial democracy, has sought to overturn a presidential election, and, despite losing big in the midterms, is offering no signs of slowing down their attempts to subvert democracy through the electoral process."