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          1. From 2016 to 2019, cable news devoted ~25% of all prime-time coverage to the Trump–Russia scandal, yet failed to teach us about Russian foreign policy, politics, economy, oligarchs, Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, security alliances, nuclear armament, Ukrainian politics or nationalism.
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          If you learned more about Paul Manafort than Ukraine, someone wasted your time. If you don't know that the US and Russia abandoned the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty, but do know how Bill Barr summarized the Mueller report, someone recklessly disregarded your future safety.
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        This would be true even if the scandal led to Trump's impeachment and removal. What was truly important wasn't HOW an alliance was built between the US and Russian presidents, but just WHAT CONSEQUENCES such an alignment would have the world.
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      The US media failed us, by fixating on scandal instead of policy.
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    Graphics from this smart article on how the coverage of the scandal crowded out other issues. cjr.org/analysis/cable-news-trump-russia-ukraine.php My point differs: it also crowded out discussion of the very foreign entanglement that was supposedly at the heart of the scandal.
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