This is on CNN. This is on MSNBC. This is on CBS. This is on ABC. This is on Fox News. This is on NPR. This is on the AP. This is on Reuters.

You've all played a role in making this latest attack on democracy possible. And you will do precisely zero reflecting on that.

After the last election, the people who should have lost their jobs all got promotions and book deals. The people who should have gotten promotions and book deals lost their jobs. That's American journalism, and that's how we arrived at this moment in history.

Six months from now, one of the Republicans who signed on to this latest attempt to overturn the election is going to sit across from Chuck Todd on Meet the Press, look him straight in the eye, and feign outrage about deficit spending being too high or some garbage.

And Chuck Todd will look back, nodding and furrowing his brow in that way he does when he's hearing someone's concern. He'll thank the congressman, he'll say "it's always a pleasure to have you here," and he'll act like everything is so very normal.

My whole life, I've been obsessed with the news. As a child, my parents used to tell me that I couldn't go downstairs until 6am because otherwise I'd be down there at 4:30 watching the first news broadcast of the day. We didn't have cable, so it was just local network stuff.

Half hour newscasts, repeated over and over for a couple hours, anchors swapping in and out. Then the Today show and Good Morning America would come on. I tended to watch Today because the ABC reception was always fuzzy.

But I've always just consumed a truly ridiculous amount of media. It's fascinated me. The way language can shape perception, the way perception can shape action, the way action shapes reality.

For more than a half century, Republicans have been working the refs, claiming there's "liberal bias" in mainstream media. Sure, most of the big media companies are run or owned by Republicans, but they were somehow biased... against... themselves?

The answer, in a futile attempt to calm the outraged, has always been to shift to the right. And so there's been this nonstop rightward lurch. After 2016, it was really intense. After this election, the same thing is happening.