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The longer I listened to Tonya Mosley's recent Fresh Air interview of Laura Meckler, the more distressed I became. Throughout the interview, Meckler bent over backwards to avoid taking sides on any of the issues under discussion. And that would be fine if the issues in question were opinions, but they're not. It is a FACT that the United States was built on slavery. It is a FACT that systemic racism exists in the United States. These are not issues that have two sides. One side is reality, the other side delusion driven by racism and white supremacy. When a journalist does an interview like this and insists on showing how "unbiased" she is by refusing to definitively say what is true and what is not, that's not good journalism, that's journalistic malpractice, because it leaves the listener with the false impression that these matters of fact are up for debate. "Journalism" like this is a large part of how we got where we are today, and it's a large part of why I canceled my subscription to The Washington Post. When one person says it's raining and another person says it isn't, the journalist's job isn't to report both sides, it's to look out the window and report the truth. We are in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of our country. The voices people need to here are the voices that are being clear and unequivocal about that, not the voices that are muddying the waters with false objectivity.