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Jake Tapper and the media’s crisis of competence

By Mark Judge
Published May 28, 2025 6:00am ET
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Jake Tapper and the media’s crisis of competence
CNN anchors Jake Tapper, left, and Dana Bash speak to members of the audience before the start of the CNN Republican presidential debate with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

“How did you not see it?”

That was the question a high school student asked journalist Ryan Lizza several years ago in a class I was teaching at Georgetown University. Lizza had been a writer in the 1990s at The New Republic at the same time as Stephen Glass.

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