"Dark blue journalism is more insidious and dangerous than yellow journalism because it’s subtle and slick and classy, in the same way that subtle and slick and classy racism is more effective than a mulleted screamer with a pointy white hood and a tiki torch he got on sale at Home Depot. Dark blue journalism is respectable because it’s perpetrated by respectable journalists who probably don’t shop at Home Depot, folks who move with ease in the bluest of circles, like Anderson Cooper, Chris Licht, Carrie Budoff Brown, and Leslie Stahl. Inevitably, in today’s ratings-obsessed newsrooms, for every Scott Pelly or Margaret Brennan or Abby Phillip with the backbone to say no, there’s a Kaitlin Collins with the ambition to say yes, to platform a demagogue in the name of “fairness to both sides.” At least that’s what she tells herself – presumably - in makeup before going on air:"