Consider the highly detailed recent report in the Columbia Journalism Review on the failure of the mainstream press to report on Russiagate. In light of the many tens of thousands of articles, blogs, reports, comments et al. on the internet regurgitating information about Russiagate that has since been discredited, I think it is difficult to adduce "reason, tolerance, and common sense" to the preeminent publications that so vigorously espoused such nonsense.
