Seems to me there's much discussion not related at all to the substance of the article. I was hoping for better than this.
The recommendation: the big national news providers – ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, AP, Reuters, The New York Times, The Washington Post – should have threat modelling teams, just as they all have pollsters. These teams would try to identify the most serious threats to a free and fair election and to US democracy over the next three months, so that their newsrooms can take appropriate action.