The government lies. Listening and spreading their lies is just that. Nothing more and nothing less. The AP is maintaining journalistic integrity. More power to the AP.
Your compass heading is consistently straight and true.
"Having spent hours in the White House briefing room under Presidents Clinton and Bush, I can tell you that was the worst use of my time," you told James Warren in April 2017 for Poynter. "Reporters should report: Develop sources, file FOIAs, massage data and, above all, interview people outside Washington. Lots of them. All the time."
That echoes a "send the interns" item in your "Farewell Guide to Political Journalism" seven months earlier at The Atlantic.
The media responses to complaints about their coverage of Trump or suggestions that they might band together in support of some cause or agenda all boil down to, 'That's too hard. Why should we have to do anything that's hard?'
I don't hate on the media as a group, but it's really tough to stomach how self-important many journalists are in public and how completely risk-averse they are in private. All the rhetoric goes out the window the moment there's a chance someone else might get a scoop.
I agree with everything you said in favor of a boycott, but my question is this: Would the billionaire Trump butt kissers Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong, who own The Washington Post and LA Times, respectively, allow their staffs to take part?
The government lies. Listening and spreading their lies is just that. Nothing more and nothing less. The AP is maintaining journalistic integrity. More power to the AP.
Your compass heading is consistently straight and true.
"Having spent hours in the White House briefing room under Presidents Clinton and Bush, I can tell you that was the worst use of my time," you told James Warren in April 2017 for Poynter. "Reporters should report: Develop sources, file FOIAs, massage data and, above all, interview people outside Washington. Lots of them. All the time."
That echoes a "send the interns" item in your "Farewell Guide to Political Journalism" seven months earlier at The Atlantic.
The media responses to complaints about their coverage of Trump or suggestions that they might band together in support of some cause or agenda all boil down to, 'That's too hard. Why should we have to do anything that's hard?'
I don't hate on the media as a group, but it's really tough to stomach how self-important many journalists are in public and how completely risk-averse they are in private. All the rhetoric goes out the window the moment there's a chance someone else might get a scoop.
The concept of asking questions to a pathological liar is comical. The press is his oxygen. Take it away, he will cave.
I agree with everything you said in favor of a boycott, but my question is this: Would the billionaire Trump butt kissers Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong, who own The Washington Post and LA Times, respectively, allow their staffs to take part?
Doubt it