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Margaret Sullivan: News media gets another chance to cover Mueller’s findings. Will coverage improve?

In political media, as in love, there aren't many chances to correct a serious wrong.

But the news media will get just that on Wednesday when Robert Mueller testifies before Congress, months after his long-awaited report on Donald Trump and possible Russian collusion to swing the 2016 election was competed.

Recall how gullible — and therefore misleading to the public — the news media was in March when Attorney General William Barr characterized the unreleased report in a four-page letter.

Coverage of that letter set in place an inaccurate narrative that has been almost impossible to dislodge.