Does nonpartisan journalism have a future?

While Republicans have decried liberal media bias for decades, none has done as vehemently as Trump

The nonpartisan model of journalism is built around the norm of covering politics as though both parties are equally guilty of all offenses. The 2016 campaign stressed that model to the breaking point with one candidate – Donald Trump – who lied at an astonishing level. PolitiFact rates 51 per cent of his statements as “false” or “pants on fire,” with another 18 per cent rated as “mostly false.” His presidency will continue to make nonpartisan journalistic norms difficult to follow.

As a political scientist focused on game theory, I approach the media from the perspective of strategic