Can the media meet the challenge of the GOP’s bogus impeachment crusade?

David Corn : House Republicans are pursuing an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden .

Corn: As of now, there is no evidence that Biden did anything to warrant the political equivalent of a death sentence.

In previous impeachments, the basic facts of the alleged wrongdoing were known, Corn says.

He says this is a bogus and trumped-up impeachment crusade.

Frida Ghitis: Rep. Kevin McCarthy announced he was initiating an impeachment inquiry of Biden without a House vote.

She says the New York Times covered McCarthy 's declaration on the front-page of his declaration on Tuesday .

Ghitis asks: Can the media report on these shenanigans without being an accomplice? She asks: How can the media avoid providing platforms to scoundrels whose goal is to spread disinformation and poison the national discourse?.

McCarthy and his House colleagues are exploiting impeachment to generate headlines and soundbites that create the impression that Biden is a crook.

That is the same strategy, on steroids, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: The extremists who tried to overturn the last election, who downplayed or excused a violent attack on the Capitol , now support a demagogic presidential candidate.