R.I.P. Scout26
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that, with a few exceptions, we were all tacitly or explicitly #WithHer, which has led to a certain anguish in the face of Donald Trump’s victory. More than that and more importantly, we also missed the story, after having spent months mocking the people who had a better sense of what was going on.This is all symptomatic of modern journalism’s great moral and intellectual failing: its unbearable smugness. Had Hillary Clinton won, there’s be a winking “we did it” feeling in the press, a sense that we were brave and called Trump a liar and saved the republic.
Trump knew what he was doing when he invited his crowds to jeer and hiss the reporters covering him. They hate us, and have for some time.And can you blame them? Journalists love mocking Trump supporters. We insult their appearances. We dismiss them as racists and sexists. We emote on Twitter about how this or that comment or policy makes us feel one way or the other, and yet we reject their feelings as invalid.
Our theme now should be humility. We must become more impartial, not less so. We have to abandon our easy culture of tantrums and recrimination. We have to stop writing these know-it-all, 140-character sermons on social media and admit that, as a class, journalists have a shamefully limited understanding of the country we cover.
From our perspective, the author is stating the obvious. How many of his colleagues will take the hint?
And over at AP, they're crying about Trump not allowing pool reporters aboard his plane as he travels, nor is he publishing his schedule or meeting summaries.https://apnews.com/22b62277e34b47008a760c660084968a
"Not allowing a pool of journalists to travel with and cover the next president of the United States is unacceptable."
And over at AP, they're crying about Trump not allowing pool reporters aboard his plane as he travels, nor is he publishing his schedule or meeting summaries.https://apnews.com/22b62277e34b47008a760c660084968aGee . . . during the campaign the majority of the press behaves as if it's a Hillary Clinton Super Pac, and now they're surprised and offended that Trump isn't inviting them to follow his every move? Who could've seen this coming.
And over at AP, they're crying about Trump not allowing pool reporters aboard his plane as he travels, nor is he publishing his schedule or meeting summaries.
What would be priceless would be for him to invite a small pool of independent bloggers, on the condition that they not release any information except through their own blogs. Make the mainstream admit they had to find the news among some guy's cat memes.
Hawkmoon - Never underestimate another person's capacity for stupidity. Any time you think someone can't possibly be that dumb ... they'll prove you wrong.
Viking - The problem with the modern world is that there aren't really any predators eating stupid people.
In the darkest, dankest parts of the internet, I keep hearing the idea that Milo Yiannopoulos should be made White House Press Secretary. This needs to become a thing.He forces people to choose between their precious deep seated Cog-Dis or their sanity. I think he would handle the press very well.
This would be brilliant. Every time there's a press conference Twitter would be blasted full of Milo quotes, and there wouldn't be a thing the could do about it. Plus, lets see them ban @pressec, or @whitehouse...
Well, the nice is that with a R in the White House the press will start to be journalists again, and not cheer leaders.
Another reporter with a clue:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs
Most people didn't vote for her not because she's a woman, they didn't vote for her because she offered no palpable change whatsoever.
Uhhh - no? You remember how professional they all were during the Bush years. They'll be cheer leaders; they just won't be cheer leaders for the opposition party.
