Maybe worse, even.
— Centrism Fan Acct ?? (@Wilson__Valdez) September 22, 2021
there's something *incredibly* unseemly about the way the beltway press corps very clearly believes that the white house treating them with insufficient deference is one of the most dangerous and pressing issues in american democracy.
— BESTCOASTMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) September 22, 2021
Too many of our ‘elite’ media members have decided they want to be the STARS of the show, not just the people who tell the rest of us about it. That’s why so many right-wing ‘reporters’ make fools of themselves at Jen Psaki’s press conferences — even getting pigbladdered for an inane question is a kind of spotlight, a little taste of celebrity. He mighto occasionally have put their careers, or even their lives, in jeopardy, but TFG gave good teevee…
he takes questions regularly. i have watched it on television. he employs multiple people to answer questions from the press on a full time basis. he's the president, dealing with several major crises, i don't want him spending his time shooting the fucking shit with you people.
— BESTCOASTMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) September 22, 2021
There is nothing worse than journalists’ insipid cry-babying about no longer having a president who spits brainless quotes into their mouths every day as if they were baby birds. https://t.co/Gg9gm1GmBM
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) September 22, 2021
They value having their questions answered. That’s it. They don’t care if the response is “fuck you. My people should punch you.” As long as they get to write up that Q & A. https://t.co/dxORxtYN8O
— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) September 22, 2021
For one brief shining moment… they could imagine themselves, every one, in the spotlight…
I get the feeling that all the reporters who think their job is monetizing access are irritated that their dreams of best-selling books are dying a slow death in the Biden administration.
— Anne (@SparksMom53) September 22, 2021
mrmoshpotato
Hooray for the only entity that’s given rights within the articles of our Constitution!
Good on ya, ya whiny ass titty baby slapdicks!
Steeplejack
TCM has been showing “autumn” movies today and tonight. Of note is Yasujiro Ozu’s An Autumn Afternoon (1962) at 2:30 a.m. EDT. “Portrait of a middle-class widower’s adjustment to his changing life.” TCM showed a full day of Ozu’s films recently; some here may remember that.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
“Don’t @ me. Just #BeBest next time”?
JFC, did she even fucking read any of the replies to her brain dead tweet?! What is it about these journalists that makes them so arrogant? Every time somebody criticizes them on social media none of them ever seem to want to actually engage and get defensive.
My pet theory is that the media is a monoculture from upper middle class America that went to handful of elite J-Schools
James E Powell
Sometimes we over analyze things. These people are just assholes who mostly do nothing but schmooze and write bland, repetitive bullshit. How that ends up being a high-paid, prestigious job is a complete mystery to me. Every one of them is easily replaceable. Outside their cliques, no one even knows who they are.
Omnes Omnibus
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): They didn’t necessarily go to elite J-schools. Anecdote time: A friend of mine from college (same fraternity, but a year ahead of me) wanted to be journalist from the time he was in grade school. Watergate was his hook. He wrote for the college paper and insisted that we watch ABC news with Peter Jennings every night before dinner was served. After graduation, he got a job with suburban Boston paper; he could afford to live on what they paid him because his dad was a successful lawyer in Boston. He moved up the ranks and worked for the Globe and the AP. When Kerry became SoS, he asked this guy to come on board at State with him. After his stint there, he became an editor with Axios. He never went to J-school, but he had connections that were more important than that. You got the upper middle class bit right though. He also is a great photographer and a very good writer.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Biden doesn’t take a question once
BOTH SIDES!!11!
cain
Access journalism (compounded by 24 hour news) is going to so fuck us in the ass as it attracts only a certain kind of schmoozing personality.
I find the media landscape interesting from an intellectual point of view, but also it terrifies me at the same time. 24 hour news, social media influencers really can fuck with your head and that isn’t really just the right although they are the most obvious.
Major Major Major Major
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I only really know one person who went to elite j-school and she is a credulous moron whose voice should not be amplified
Soprano2
I think they’re bored, it’s as simple a that. They got used to the adrenaline rush they got from the Trump scandal of the hour, and they can’t stand that it’s gone. Reporters actually hate good government, it’s their nightmare.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Major Major Major Major:
Hey, now! I went to an elite J-school, and I’m not a credulous moron. In fact, I’m a valued commenter at an almost top 10,000 blog. Maybe not a “thought leader” or an “influencer”—more like a “news commenter.”
NotMax
A roomful of Arnold Horshacks, minus the charm.
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piratedan
well, obviously the fourth estate is still reeling from the accusation that they have a “liberal” bias. Obama rightly classifies Faux News as a propaganda outfit, they are up in arms regarding their brethren being excluded (despite the issue that all Faux Commentary is not to be taken seriously based on the arguments of their own legal staff). Trump put them in a pen and openly derides them, Proud Boys chase down, threaten and assault independents and the fourth estate all just shrug.
They were constantly insulted and classified as liars, fakes and threats to America by the previous Administration and with the escalating rhetoric appear to believe that somehow they’re not on the list if the Right takes over.
I want to make sure that we recognize that not all of them behave this way, but sadly the ones that do, appear to have the biggest soapbox from which they feel that they should have the privilege of calling out whatever transgressions they see and categorize the appropriate level of outrage.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack (phone): You can’t just tee up things like that when I am trying to be good.
VOR
Seriously, TFG had a press secretary who NEVER held a press briefing. 9 months tenure, no briefings. And now they are upset the President doesn’t go out of his way to make time for them, even though the WH Press Secretary holds regular briefings.
sanjeevs
The “Paper of Record” has not made a single mention of the Eastman memo since the story broke.
Never happened apparently.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
I said what I said. ?
Steeplejack (phone)
I am going to bed, so I will not be taking questions at this time. ??
JCJ
@Steeplejack (phone):
A thought leader? Wasn’t that the position of Just Some Fuckhead? At one time they added “Thought Leader” to the nym.
KCSteve
But can you just imagine the probing and nuanced question they would have been able to ask had they but just had the chance ?
Me either.
JoyceH
I just looked at the event Parker was complaining about, and it was a pool spray. A POOL SPRAY. When the president sits beside visiting dignitary and the press files through to take pictures of the meeting for a few minutes before being herded out so the pres and dignitary can do some actual work. Geez, Ashley, do better.
TriassicSands
When they get to ask the president a question they are equals.
Clearly, we don’t have a flourishing democracy. So, no reason for the prez to answer questions. I guess Ashley hasn’t noticed the GOP hard at work destroying our democracy. It’s not like they are being secretive about it.
NotMax
@TriassicSands
Dan Rather’s “No, sir, are you?” permanently altered the equation.
(Those of us at the time cognizant of Watergate will recall the reference.)
HumboldtBlue
What’s the difference between writing “me either” and “me neither” cuz I tend to use them interchangeably.
Also, the Muhammad Ali doc from Ken Burns was worth a watch. Provided a lot of detail into an extraordinary man and era.
opiejeanne
@HumboldtBlue: I tend to say and write “me neither”, because it sounds right to me. YMMV.
Lokahi
I went to an elite J-school and now I work with sick cats.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I don’t see what the Press thinks the problem is; why can’t they just make up the Q and A with Biden. They are doing fan fics as it is so it’s not like the press feels constrained by reality.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Like the White House press pool thinks they are more than equals because they’ve been assigned to White House longer than Biden’s been president.
Dan B
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: They seem to expect to be spoonfed stories since TFG was a getting gun spew of outrage and Obama was a constant target of racist and right wing outrage. They don’t notice when Biden gets emotional since emotion is apparently not enough unless it’s tearing someone or some group down.
The overall vibe is spoiled elitists with a few decent journalists to keep the entire lot from being confined to the sub basement of our government.
lowtechcyclist
@VOR:
Seriously. What questions would they ask of Biden that Psaki can’t answer? If they can ask questions and get reasonable answers to them, why should it matter who the answer comes from?
Other than “being able to talk directly to the President means I’m important,” of course.
Steeplejack (phone)
@JCJ:
JSF is a true thought leader.
Biff Baxter
Only thing I’m surprised about is that Ashley didn’t end her tweet pimping her husband’s book.
Ken
Every reporter’s dream is to make ten million dollars for their book, titled: “U. S. OF ATROCITIES — How the United States became a dictatorship, and how I knew about the plans three years before it happened”.
Though I feel they haven’t really thought through the plan, or they’d realize they’d have to be paid in euros.
VOR
@Lokahi: Sick cats sounds like an upgrade from dealing with some politicians. I’d rather clean up my cat’s barf than talk to Ted Cruz.
Villago Delenda Est
Ahem. It’s “The Beltway Press Corpse”. They are all undead monsters. In the words of the ever relevant Ellen Ripley, “Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
sdhays
“#BeBest” was a nice touch. She’s nothing more than a highly paid troll.