We Already Know How to Cover Trump's Lies. So Why Aren't Newsrooms Doing It?

A new playbook from the Reuters Institute lays out concrete techniques for covering authoritarian politicians. The problem isn't figuring out what to do — it's getting anyone to actually do it.

Michael Hauser Tov, chief political correspondent at Haaretz, has a new report out from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism about covering what he calls “populist” politicians. And while I have some quibbles with the framing (I’ll get to that), the actual substance of his work is excellent and something I wish more newsrooms would pay atte…