It’s actually a whinge post by his partner Mike Allen, with bylines by three other Axios ‘reporters’ — “How Biden, Trump favor safe spaces”: … Why it matters: Call it the safe-space election. Biden is more likely to talk to mainstream outlets, and Trump to echo chambers. But both pop up for questioning with sycophants, …
Sunday Night Open Thread: The Media Horserace Touts Are *Very* Unhappy. Good.Post + Comments (147)
The problem is that you no longer ask good questions.
The press has become a never-ending quest for click bait & rage bait because the internet broke your business model and you have no clue how to deal with it.
You’ve optimized incorrectly
— verdverm (@verdverm) April 20, 2024
Journalists act like the Times and the Post have some divine right to interviews with the president no matter how they treat him in coverage, and when he objects, its grounds for more of the coverage driving him away from them.
— The Fig Economy (@figgityfigs.bsky.social) Apr 21, 2024 at 7:36 AM
This isn’t to say that presidents shouldn’t get challenging coverage. What the Times and Post have been doing, abdicating their roles as papers of record, is different than that, even as it intersects so that they can squint and say it’s what they’re doing.
— The Fig Economy (@figgityfigs.bsky.social) Apr 21, 2024 at 7:37 AM
This honestly feels sort of like incel stuff. “We are entitled to you and if you do not recognize and accede to that entitlement then I guess we will have to neg you.”
— The Fig Economy (@figgityfigs.bsky.social) Apr 21, 2024 at 8:47 AM
My understanding is that Jane Mayer is good friends with Susan Glasser and Both Sides Baker.
That is what is clouding her judgment.
(also, WSJ is Murdoch owned, WaPo's new publisher is a former Murdoch henchman and we all know how horrible the NYT's political reporting is)— Art Martin (@gartmartin9) April 21, 2024
There's no Maggie Haberman because Biden isn't a bottomless hole of human need so thoroughly terrified of being alone with his thoughts that he'll dump his entire twisted subconscious to any reporter who'll nod, transcribe and save the most incriminating stuff for a book. pic.twitter.com/9htLda7xcj
— zeddy (@Zeddary) April 21, 2024
The Biden era offered up the chance to go back. With big stories hopeful and tragic and complex happening far from Twitter and DC.
Instead you kept the millionaire stenographers, infotainers and talking heads whose only prism is DC gossip and the endless horserace.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) April 21, 2024
Imagine waking in the morning after the first week of Trump’s criminal trial
And making this comment
Imagine thinking you’re so important that it matters to the voters that Biden make the media happy.
As if he could.
— Seeking Justice (@combienDUtemps) April 20, 2024
Well, VandeHei finds space for the truly significant details of Trump’s courtroom antics…
🚨🚨Inside Trump’s shadow grievance campaign https://t.co/ula4wdVv6A
— Jim VandeHei (@JimVandeHei) April 18, 2024