Article snippet: The news media has taken a big hit from special counsel MORE and those closest to him illegally coordinated with Russia to steal the election. The breathless coverage amplified the sense that Trump and some of his family members would go down for crimes, yet in the end, Mueller reported that he found no evidence of a conspiracy. Conservatives and some liberals say there should be a reckoning. “Hell yes, there ought to be some self-examination from the media for contributing to a Russia hysteria,” said Wayne Merry, a former State Department foreign service officer who worked in Moscow under former Presidents MORE and George H.W. Bush. “Maybe the press didn’t get it all wrong, but there is not a scintilla of evidence that goes to the fundamental allegation that Trump is president because he coordinated with Russia.” Conservatives are basking in the media’s failures, circulating greatest hits collections of reporting mistakes and mashups of television commentators warning that the walls are closing in on the president. The Trump campaign sent a memo to television producers on Monday asking hosts to challenge past guests who claimed to have evidence of collusion. A few prominent figures on the left are also taking a victory lap, such as The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald, who says he was blackballed from CNN and MSNBC for refusing to promote the Trump-Russia conspiracy narrative. In an email to The Hill, veteran national security reporter Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Pri... Link to the full article to read more