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The mainstream press in the US is obsessed with ‘objectivity’ – and that’s a problem

It’s impossible for effective political dialogue to be maintained if one side of an argument continue to lie without consequence.

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Donald Trump. Flickr/Gage Skidmore. Some rights reserved.
Donald Trump. Flickr/Gage Skidmore. Some rights reserved.

Donald Trump. Flickr/Gage Skidmore. Some rights reserved.Even in a year that has felt like it was scripted by a team of writers at The Onion, the irony of Mike Pence’s email scandal is too much to bear.

It turns out the vice-president-elect has been embroiled in a dispute over his official Indiana governor email account for the last year and a half.

Pence has refused to disclose the contents of a 2014 message to his chief of staff, despite Democratic lawmakers in the state calling for the email to be a matter of public record.