Oh Baby ...... today's PressRun comments will sizzle because just about all of us love Jennifer Rubin. That's because PressRun is about the problems of media coverage, and Jennifer Rubin is one of the two strongest voices on these problems.
Jennifer Rubin has always had a strong, not for sale, voice. She realized early on that conservative principles and trumpism were not compatible and stood her ground and reported what she saw in the trump WH. That she is continuing to do so for the Biden WH is called doing her job. In contrast Haberman is a suspect journalist who’s loyalties have become very clear and a reason for print media’s decline. As for Politico, it’s only value is on the bottom of the litter box.
I despise Politico and stopped reading it quite a while ago. Its conservative bias is clear, which means its credibility is zilch in my mind. The Hill is moving into that territory as well. "Both sides do it" is cut from the same disinformation cloth as "stop the steal."
For what it's worth, Brian Beutler came up with a couple of pieces that Digby referenced essentially saying that it is long past time to recognize that the Republican Party leadership has a culture that runs on bad faith. I wrote it up for Daily Kos, and it has taken off there. I figure it's worth bringing it up here, because what Politico is doing is reinforcing the bad faith at work in the way the media treats the GOP vs. Democrats. To quote Beutler:
"...The Republican Party’s core rottenness—its dishonesty, corruption, pettiness, racism—is the defining political fact of our time. Whatever we say about it, confronting all of us in the weeks and months ahead is the more important question of what we do about it. What do the rest of us—most importantly elected Democrats, but also journalists, political elites, and regular citizens—need to change about public life to account for the fact that one of the two major parties has embraced bad faith as an organizing principle?"
"...There’s an entire billion-dollar, right-wing media infrastructure that spent the previous four years parroting the Trump administration’s critique of the media"
Mainstream media for the most part ignores this indisputable fact.
But that's OK.
There's absolutely no danger in a single political party profiting from billions in free propaganda and messaging... Maybe just democracy, but little else.
That Mr. Boehlert refers to the "cafeteria" sends this to the head of the line for me, and reminds me of a story I heard about a reporter assigned to a story they didn't want to do, although it meant a lot of attention for them. The reporter finally went to their editor and asked off of the story. Why? Because the other reporters were teasing them in the cafeteria. And some of those involved, shall we say, now are part of the cafeteria that Mr. Boehlert mentions. Sorry to be opaque about who it is, but the name is actually familiar to many.
Tiger Beat on the Potomac’s Playbook (hat tip: Esquire’s Charlie Pierce) is the DC Society and Gossip pages, and always has been. They are the self-proclaimed hall monitors at the middle school breathlessly trying to prove that they too are the cool kids. The problem is that Playbook is the first thing the elite media reads in the morning (and bet me that they search it for their own names before reading any of the articles).
It doesn’t surprise me that they pulled a dick move of publishing Rubin’s letter. That seems perfectly in character. But they would scream if the tables were reversed. And remember: Maggie Haberman is a Politico alumnus. I’m sure she honed her ethics there.
For the record, I respect Rubin, but I do not love Rubin. She got burned, I’m surprised she didn’t see that coming.
As for what used to be Tiger Beat On The Potomac and after being bought by the right wing German Rupert Murdoch well they're now the political equivalent of 16 Magazine. THey've double down on the Presstitution with their worshipping DeSadist and Hot Wheels Abbott.
You are going to wear yourself out criticizing Politico for insider-ism and both sides-ism. That’s like criticizing Beethoven for writing music. It’s their raison d’etre.
I love Jennifer Rubin too. To Politico, “They can’t handle the truth.” I’ve been considering dropping Politico for awhile. This is the last straw. How about Politico learning from one of the best in the business? Her critiques obviously hit a lot of nerves. This is a cheap shot from Politico and all those male executives who look in their mirrors and only see dollar signs. Jennifer, you go girl. We’re on your side.
Politico is now right down in the dregs with The Hill. Good that it's only us politics junkies that the majority of Americans do not read their crap. They have totally sold out.
I thought Haberman’s beat, essentially if not officially, was to pass along leaks from anonymous sources very close to and maybe including Trump. No original reporting, just note taking. Seriously; I’m convinced. (OTOH, her tweets are occasionally better journalism than her stuff in the Times.)
So, you know, when it comes to her opinion about anything, who cares? It’s never of any importance.
Oh Baby ...... today's PressRun comments will sizzle because just about all of us love Jennifer Rubin. That's because PressRun is about the problems of media coverage, and Jennifer Rubin is one of the two strongest voices on these problems.
Jennifer Rubin has always had a strong, not for sale, voice. She realized early on that conservative principles and trumpism were not compatible and stood her ground and reported what she saw in the trump WH. That she is continuing to do so for the Biden WH is called doing her job. In contrast Haberman is a suspect journalist who’s loyalties have become very clear and a reason for print media’s decline. As for Politico, it’s only value is on the bottom of the litter box.
I support Jennifer Rubin's writing. I find her very honest, and have not caught her in hyperbole or error.
I despise Politico and stopped reading it quite a while ago. Its conservative bias is clear, which means its credibility is zilch in my mind. The Hill is moving into that territory as well. "Both sides do it" is cut from the same disinformation cloth as "stop the steal."
For what it's worth, Brian Beutler came up with a couple of pieces that Digby referenced essentially saying that it is long past time to recognize that the Republican Party leadership has a culture that runs on bad faith. I wrote it up for Daily Kos, and it has taken off there. I figure it's worth bringing it up here, because what Politico is doing is reinforcing the bad faith at work in the way the media treats the GOP vs. Democrats. To quote Beutler:
"...The Republican Party’s core rottenness—its dishonesty, corruption, pettiness, racism—is the defining political fact of our time. Whatever we say about it, confronting all of us in the weeks and months ahead is the more important question of what we do about it. What do the rest of us—most importantly elected Democrats, but also journalists, political elites, and regular citizens—need to change about public life to account for the fact that one of the two major parties has embraced bad faith as an organizing principle?"
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/18/2053094/-Brian-Beutler-explains-why-Republican-elites-are-deliberately-anti-vaxx-and-more
"...There’s an entire billion-dollar, right-wing media infrastructure that spent the previous four years parroting the Trump administration’s critique of the media"
Mainstream media for the most part ignores this indisputable fact.
But that's OK.
There's absolutely no danger in a single political party profiting from billions in free propaganda and messaging... Maybe just democracy, but little else.
That Mr. Boehlert refers to the "cafeteria" sends this to the head of the line for me, and reminds me of a story I heard about a reporter assigned to a story they didn't want to do, although it meant a lot of attention for them. The reporter finally went to their editor and asked off of the story. Why? Because the other reporters were teasing them in the cafeteria. And some of those involved, shall we say, now are part of the cafeteria that Mr. Boehlert mentions. Sorry to be opaque about who it is, but the name is actually familiar to many.
Tiger Beat on the Potomac’s Playbook (hat tip: Esquire’s Charlie Pierce) is the DC Society and Gossip pages, and always has been. They are the self-proclaimed hall monitors at the middle school breathlessly trying to prove that they too are the cool kids. The problem is that Playbook is the first thing the elite media reads in the morning (and bet me that they search it for their own names before reading any of the articles).
It doesn’t surprise me that they pulled a dick move of publishing Rubin’s letter. That seems perfectly in character. But they would scream if the tables were reversed. And remember: Maggie Haberman is a Politico alumnus. I’m sure she honed her ethics there.
For the record, I respect Rubin, but I do not love Rubin. She got burned, I’m surprised she didn’t see that coming.
At the first "expose" of Politico by Eric Boehlert, I cancelled my subscription to it.
I love Jennifer Rubin.
As for what used to be Tiger Beat On The Potomac and after being bought by the right wing German Rupert Murdoch well they're now the political equivalent of 16 Magazine. THey've double down on the Presstitution with their worshipping DeSadist and Hot Wheels Abbott.
You are going to wear yourself out criticizing Politico for insider-ism and both sides-ism. That’s like criticizing Beethoven for writing music. It’s their raison d’etre.
I love Jennifer Rubin too. To Politico, “They can’t handle the truth.” I’ve been considering dropping Politico for awhile. This is the last straw. How about Politico learning from one of the best in the business? Her critiques obviously hit a lot of nerves. This is a cheap shot from Politico and all those male executives who look in their mirrors and only see dollar signs. Jennifer, you go girl. We’re on your side.
Politico is now right down in the dregs with The Hill. Good that it's only us politics junkies that the majority of Americans do not read their crap. They have totally sold out.
I thought Haberman’s beat, essentially if not officially, was to pass along leaks from anonymous sources very close to and maybe including Trump. No original reporting, just note taking. Seriously; I’m convinced. (OTOH, her tweets are occasionally better journalism than her stuff in the Times.)
So, you know, when it comes to her opinion about anything, who cares? It’s never of any importance.
Get used to it… Politico has/will become nothing more than a right wing rag.
Maggie Haberman. One of the many reasons I don't read the NYTimes. J. Rubin, one of the many reasons I do read the W. Post.