Dan Froomkin is an American journalist worth following. Andrew Coyne is not afraid to speak out, but Froomkin wondered why most people in legacy media don’t appear to believe the current threat to democracy is real.

What if they look out at the political sphere — increasingly filled with election-denial, voter suppression, political violence, unaccountability to the law, enthusiastic abuse of public power to punish enemies — and think: Eh, it’ll blow over, it doesn’t affect me?

Why aren’t mainstream journalists sounding the alarm about the threat to democracy?

Froomkin quotes several experts on journalism, including Nikole Hannah-Jones, the founding director of the Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univesity:

[Black journalists] know that democracy has been and is always contested and fragile, and at times missing altogether.