I’m feeling some remorse about my own, however infinitesimal, role in pumping the Steele dossier, and brooding about some of my larger editorial choices over the past five years. Thanks to The Washington Post, the rest of the media who fed off the Steele dossier uncritically over the years may well follow suit, no matter how hot the conflagration grows. They certainly should.

But here’s the catch.

Who in the “conservative” media is going to stop giving oxygen to the extremists undermining our national security with false claims about vaccinations, mask mandates, critical race theory, “stolen” elections, the Jan. 6 insurrection and, let’s not forget, Democratic Party “satanists” and “pedophiles”? And so much more.

At least we correct and apologize for our errors, however belatedly, as in the Steele dossier case. Fox News and their ilk? Never gonna happen.