Poor Press Corps. They cab’t stand to hear the truth.
Halperin tried to redirect the conversation, saying the only way a Republican can win the White House “is if the press favors them in coverage,” a chance he said Trump is missing.
You mean this press? I think Rhodes is spot on, but he hurt the press’s feelings.
Doesn’t he know they like to be fed, coddled, swathed in blankets, and sung lullabies?
He was very much helped in the Iran vote because Netanyahu was against it. If Netanyahu is against something, one can be quite certain it is an extremely worthy initiative deserving of unconditional support.
He speaks the truth.
Coming from a group that breathlessly “reports” on Trump’s empty podium every chance they get, I have little sympathy.
It’s almost like the reporters didn’t realize, before he came out and told them point-blank, that the White House (and everybody else) has an agenda and a perspective that they’re pushing when they talk to the press. And even when they’re telling the absolute truth, what they say and how they say it influences that narrative. Shocking!
So the DC press corps mostly consists of a bunch of ignorant and naive 27 year olds, plus Mark Halperin and Chuck Todd. Ponder that.
It sounds like he’s just telling it like it is, how is this in any way negative?
Newspapers have cut all manner of reporters and even, in the case of our formerly palatable local rag The Oregonian our award winning editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman. About the only thing they did not cut was their Orygun Duck worshiping sports reporter.
So why should there be “backlash” over saying what we all are experiencing with today’s media?
Everone commenting here is spot on. First criticism ever of foreign reporting cutbacks that I have read. Although Halperin did not show a bit of remorse for his part in the collective sins, there’s a kernel of truth to what he is saying, no? “Press” did fall in love with Bill C, and later with Obama. Bush? Fox loved him.
I don’t disagree with him… by WHY THE FUCK would you say that in an interview with a reporter? I mean, what did you think was going to happen?
“All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus. Now they don’t. They
call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most
of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington," he said
in the profile. "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and
their only reporting experience consists of being around political
campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”
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Which is why NPR is a good source for unbiased news.
I still haven’t gotten to the NYT Magazine (except the xwords) so maybe I shouldn’t comment. But doesn’t it seem like a bit of self-glorification? For some reason I think of the Florida real estate guys in The Big Short – but maybe I should read it. (I have mostly heard hate radio diatribes calling it a confession of treason.)
Why does it seem to me that Rhodes and Kirkland have some history together?