"Under the deepening shadow of the coronavirus pandemic,Frank Rich spoke with GEN from his home in New York City about the need for a new approach to covering contemporary Washington and for the media to move past “narrative” and into a more assertive approach in defense of facts. The bedrock of Rich’s journalistic method for more than 4 decades, “to look for a narrative in the many competing dramas unfolding on the national stage.” I can’t remember ever feeling like that before, that literally every single person is endangered by the nonsense that is coming out of the television right now."