Progressives Really Struggling With the Idea the Right Got This Right
Progressives Really Struggling With the Idea the Right Got This Right John Sexton 1:20 PM | August 19, 2026 St Mary's University At this point I'm genuinely surprised the argument over Jason Arday is still going, but it is. The latest angle, which both David and I wrote about yesterday, is that the media were to blame for his apparent suicide because they...did their jobs? Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); It could not be more clear that the problem, as they see it, is not that the media revealed a fabulist who was unfit for his high-profile job.
- ▪Progressives Really Struggling With the Idea the Right Got This Right John Sexton 1:20 PM | August 19, 2026 St Mary's University At this point I'm genuinely surprised the argument over Jason Arday is still going, but it is.
- ▪The latest angle, which both David and I wrote about yesterday, is that the media were to blame for his apparent suicide because they...did their jobs?
- ▪Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); It could not be more clear that the problem, as they see it, is not that the media rev
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Progressives Really Struggling With the Idea the Right Got This Right John Sexton 1:20 PM | August 19, 2026 St Mary's University At this point I'm genuinely surprised the argument over Jason Arday is still going, but it is. The latest angle, which both David and I wrote about yesterday, is that the media were to blame for his apparent suicide because they...did their jobs? Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); It could not be more clear that the problem, as they see it, is not that the media revealed a fabulist who was unfit for his high-profile job. The real problem is that he was one of them and the media aren't supposed to go this hard against one of them.
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