Two elections

Beginning before the 2016 election the NY Times started publishing news about the Trump-Russia collusion to win the election. This continued for three years. After winning the Pulitzer Prize for outstanding reporting the Times admitted it was wrong and there was no collusion. In July of 2022, five years later, the Times columnist published an article detailing his "wrong" and regretful reporting before the 2016 election. An 18-month investigation by the liberal media watchdog Columbia Journalism Review has delivered a major black eye to The New York Times and other Pulitzer Prize winners for their stories about the Trump-Russia saga, finding “serious flaws” in their coverage and no acknowledgment that the accusations of collusion with Moscow were never substantiated. This was long after the election was over and led to the impeachment of the president The first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, began on December 18, 2019. This was during the run up to Trumps second term. Many experts feel that this trial influenced the election. Some say it meant that two elections in a row these investigations amounted to election interference but since it was Trump the press didn't see it that way. The major loss to the country was the way the press chose to look away.