Hillary aide on press joining her on plane next week: "I hope this will shut you the hell up"
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) September 2, 2016
Ah yes. Asking to cover the favorite to be president is SUCH an inconvenience! https://t.co/biLDZsQUsr
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) September 2, 2016
Hey, guys, the press isn’t perceived as smug & entitled as we think it should be. Can you get on that for us? https://t.co/rn2zFUNntq
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) September 2, 2016
Summer’s over, so Hillary Clinton will dutifully invite the press corpse to join her, where they will no doubt proceed to do their best to ensure Donald Trump gets as close to winning the election as the man’s innate unworthiness will allow. Discussion topic from Jay Rosen, something of an expert on the modern American media and its biases:
Here's a question for the gang. Why is the pivot such a seductive idea to political journalists?
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) September 1, 2016
@Maghielse That's what half the respondents said.
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) September 1, 2016
@jayrosen_nyu They assume candidates don't really believe what they're saying. Sometimes they're right, but often they're wrong.
— Tony Fratto (@TonyFratto) September 2, 2016
@TonyFratto @jayrosen_nyu I can't help but wonder if it's also our propensity to boil politics down to sports metaphors
— William Pesek (@WilliamPesek) September 2, 2016
@jayrosen_nyu maintains illusion of Trump's sanity. Makes journos feel better about covering a crazy person as if he's not
— Sean Gregory (@qkslvrwolf) September 1, 2016
Top replies by volume: 1. Plot twist: something new. 2. Sports: comeback! 3. Normalizes bizarre election. 4. Savvy! https://t.co/ymk88wtDgo
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) September 1, 2016
@jayrosen_nyu Why isn't the "horrific train wreck" frame used by MSM for Trump instead of "plot twist"?
— Thomas Logan (@Penman1961) September 1, 2016
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