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You are here: Home / Politics / Media / Late Night Clown Car Open Thread: Media Mudlarks

Late Night Clown Car Open Thread: Media Mudlarks

by Anne Laurie|  March 1, 20211:55 am| 18 Comments

This post is in: Media, Open Threads, Our Failed Media Experiment

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NYT Politics sucks. They have three people writing overlapping stories about Trump and CPAC. And two people sharing one story about what's actually happening in the government. pic.twitter.com/DexAvFsVZt

— Cathedral ?? Engineer ? (@owenrumney) February 28, 2021

Back in the days of Unfettered Capitalism, neglected children and homeless oldsters could scrape out a living sifting through the Thames mud for resalable items. Today, there’s a whole squadron of high-income, expensively-educated Media Professionals trying to revive that job classification, but for pixels!

Wow, where would we be without hard hitting journalism like this https://t.co/0dUOcoH4K2

— staying home stan account (@Convolutedname) February 28, 2021

Never forget, the only thing that matters on this earth is being nice to reporters. You don't even factor in to the equation https://t.co/uLQGlTanuW

— Guy who says "Hold the line" and "Diamond Hands" (@crumbbutler) February 27, 2021


Passing notes between the lockers in a suburban middle school serving three different gated communities…

It doesn’t erase reporter-bashing during the campaign but it is of note now that they’re in power as a signal that’s being sent. https://t.co/BUh3RdVyKE

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 27, 2021

Struggling to understand why politico thinks a conference speech by the just-defeated one term former president merited a sneak preview hours in advance. I mean I know why they’re doing it but I’d love to know what their excuse is https://t.co/fi3WLnfuVD

— Gapeway Pundit (@canderaid) March 1, 2021

Because the Former Guy was a mighty-but-shallow river of virtual sewage, through which the happy Media Mudlarks could squish, picking out endless nuggets of infotainment and speculation? Unlike the new, professional, Democratic Administration…

I see the media has learned absolutely nothing about their own role during the Trump years

— staying home stan account (@Convolutedname) February 27, 2021

If you point that out or worse don't treat politics like a game, they suddenly turn into serious protectors of the republic

— staying home stan account (@Convolutedname) February 27, 2021

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18Comments

  1. 1.

    Redshift

    March 1, 2021 at 2:05 am

    “reporter-bashing during the campaign”?

    WTF?

    Does anyone have any idea what the thin-skinned stenographer is talking about?

  2. 2.

    JWR

    March 1, 2021 at 2:08 am

    2nd?

  3. 3.

    Chetan Murthy

    March 1, 2021 at 2:08 am

    @Redshift: MAGA Habs is unhappy that we call her that.  Boo fucking hoo.  Also, probably somewhat about the way the Biden campaign did a lot of (what was it called?) “hat for the day” (or whatever) — declared an early end to press availabilities for the day, when Biden was instead, y’know, meeting with *voters* and *activists*.

    But I bet it’s about all our bitching at her and her colleagues (Vogel [spit], etc).

  4. 4.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    March 1, 2021 at 2:13 am

    4️⃣

  5. 5.

    HumboldtBlue

    March 1, 2021 at 2:13 am

    Nicola White is just one of dozens of folks who mudlark on the Thames. They turn up some fascinating bits and bobs.

  6. 6.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    March 1, 2021 at 2:13 am

    @Chetan Murthy: ​
     

    Habs-been

  7. 7.

    piratedan

    March 1, 2021 at 2:30 am

    what’s weird is while they were tee-ing up Ms. Tanden for her Mean Girl tweets, it appeared to be Ms. Seung Min who was showing Murkowski the mean tweets about her and THEN fishing for a comment.    In the past, when the GOP stated that they hadn’t seen a tweet the press simply shrugged and moved on to the next question, when instead they are out there pushing a narrative, we’re supposed to wonder wtf happened to the happy stenographer crew that suddenly found their inner journalist.

    I gots no problem with someone pointing out to Sen Murkowski what was said about her, I just find it curious that its the 4th estate that has to perform this duty rather than the Senator’s own staff.

    YOU know there’s a double standard here in play, I know there’s a double standard here at play, but don’t be fucking crying about it when we point out the very same crew that let all this shit pass in the name of “access journalism” never appears to have any problem when its a Dem Administration.  I know that there’s plenty of folks out there in the 4th estate doing a great job, when we find a certain element doing the bad faith tango, just don’t act all surprised if we change the music.

  8. 8.

    The Dark Avenger

    March 1, 2021 at 2:40 am

    Just answered Maggie the Prat:  I’m truly sorry nobody in the Biden Administration falls to the level of your buddies Ivanka and Jared.  I suggest you have a couple of drinks and then get over it.

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    James E Powell

    March 1, 2021 at 3:05 am

    @Redshift:

    She is just an asshole. There was no reporter bashing from the Biden campaign, but a constant flow of hatred & scorn from the right-wingers. Maggie doesn’t mind that, though, because that’s her team.

  10. 10.

    James E Powell

    March 1, 2021 at 3:11 am

    @piratedan:

    I gots no problem with someone pointing out to Sen Murkowski what was said about her, I just find it curious that its the 4th estate that has to perform this duty rather than the Senator’s own staff.

    I don’t approve of the vitriol that was aimed at that reporter. I am past caring about that kind of “reporting” because there is nothing I can do about it. It is stupid, middle school “Hey Lisa, did you hear what Neera said about you in math class last year? What are you gonna say to her? Huh? Huh?”

    Just the kind of story you want to tell your grandchildren about your days as a big time journalist.

  11. 11.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    March 1, 2021 at 3:15 am

    @piratedan:

    And, apparently, according to some on Twitter, Seung Min Kim neglected to show Sen. Murkowski some later, positive tweets that Neera Tanden had written about her. ?

  12. 12.

    Martin

    March 1, 2021 at 3:17 am

    Trump plays the NYT the same way he played the NY tabloids. I have no problem with Trump doing it. I do have a problem with the Times falling for it worse than the Post.

  13. 13.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    March 1, 2021 at 4:40 am

    Presstitutes with a proclivity for kinky right wing shit, they gladly sell their asses for their wealthy owners so they can have a front seat at the crazy trough. They don’t give a shit about the nation or the people in it, all they want to do is drive a story for their own ends.

    Fuck the NY Times, Politico and the rest of them.

  14. 14.

    Soprano2

    March 1, 2021 at 6:52 am

    I continue to believe the White House press corps needs a 12-step program for their former guy addiction. They miss the hourly drama that was the former guy’s administration.

    I didn’t know about that reporter showing the Tanden tweets to Murkowski. Seems like something they never did with the former guy’s tweets Republicans claimed they never saw.

  15. 15.

    Geminid

    March 1, 2021 at 7:02 am

    @Steeplejack (phone): I liked Murkowski’s droll response to Tanden’s tweet: “‘High on my own supply.’ Interesting.”

  16. 16.

    Matt McIrvin

    March 1, 2021 at 7:36 am

    @James E Powell: Trump incites mobs at his rallies to attack the press, and it’s Biden they get upset about.

  17. 17.

    Geminid

    March 1, 2021 at 7:47 am

    @Geminid: Between Lisa Murkowski and her father Frank, a Murkowski has represented Alaska in the Senate since 1980. Frank Murkowski ran for Alaska Governor in 2002. When he won, he resigned his Senate seat and appointed his daughter Lisa as Senator. She was leader of the Alaska State Senate at the time.

    While Frank Murkowski was a vocal opponent of gay people serving in the military, Lisa Murkowski was one of 6 Republican Senators who voted in the 2010 lame duck session to repeal the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, thereby allowing military service by openly gay people. Richard Burr of North Carolina was another.

  18. 18.

    Mart

    March 1, 2021 at 10:24 am

    I’m so old I remember Trump leading a failed coup.

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