The short and simplistic explanation is that journalists are most comfortable in the non-committed middle of political debates. A zero-sum power game determines who governs, and the reporter gets their credibility from calling the game without commenting on who’s right. This is a pretty old idea.
What’s new is the urgency. Every one of these reporters knows the gravity of the threat Biden identified, even if he did it in the context of politics (does a president even have another context?). All of them know that the GOP is effectively an anti-democratic party now, and that its authoritarian-populist momentum probably isn’t subsiding any time soon, no matter what happens to Trump.
Even though more and more of the press has grasped the emergency, bothsidesism is clearly alive and well.
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