Except when it isn't:So amazing how many replies are “you in the media are the only ones who care.” Seem to recall a lot about the press being a vital component of a functioning democracy coming from...Trump opponents last year.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 11, 2021
Whenever the “why mean president no talk reporters in good way reporters want” discourse comes up again I think about how Brian Williams’ first one on one White House interview with Obama opened with him asking if he was excited about Conan O’Brien taking over The Tonight Show
— August J. Pollak (@AugustJPollak) March 11, 2021
If the "free press" are so vitally important to democracy why is it more endangered now, when there is so much more media more free than at any time in our history, than any time when there was so much less of it and it enjoyed less license to say whatever they want to? I hear, as recently as the beginning of this week, "respected White House reporters" repeating lies from Trump and claiming that what he's saying is what "the American People" are saying. And being shocked when Jen Psaki immediately gets them by asking them for the source of their quote. Clearly the media are a bunch of right-wing shills, including the ones who would be trying to trip up Joe Biden in the press conference Maggs is whining about.
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