NBC's Guthrie slammed by left, right over interview with Covington student Sandmann

NBC “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie was criticized by the left and the right on Wednesday following her interview with Nick Sandmann, the Covington High School student at the center of a weekend controversy at the Lincoln Memorial.

Liberals criticized Guthrie and “Today” for giving Sandmann a national platform, while conservatives criticized her for asking if he should apologize to Native American activist Nathan Phillips.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/426568-nbcs-guthrie-slammed-by-left-right-over-interview-with-covington-student

How Twitter could be the death of liberal democracy

This has been a deeply demoralizing week for American media and democratic culture — one with implications that may well point to something far worse.

Extreme partisan polarization is combining with the technology of social media, and especially Twitter, to provoke a form of recurrent political madness among members of the country's cultural and intellectual elite. And that madness, when combined with the rising extremism of the populist right, is pushing the country toward a dangerously illiberal forms of politics.

https://theweek.com/articles/818951/how-twitter-could-death-liberal-democracy