News You Can Abuse!

From Fox News to a substack near you, the bigger problem, always, is the American political media. https://t.co/kGGgEMhPqa

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 30, 2021

The STEELE DOSSIER, & the media coverage of it “has really damaged the media,” @BarryMeier said in a book talk.

"It doesn’t benefit journalism to not stop & say ‘how did we screw up? What can learn from this, & what can we do differently going forward?’” https://t.co/3fxYw3oiPr

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) May 30, 2021

I was thinking reading about the political press complaining about the political press is like Hollywood's favorite topic: movies about Hollywood. But this one is actually ever so much better:

Media criticism can be fun to write and fun to read but it always feels like that Vonnegut line about artists opposing Vietnam having the combined power of a pie dropped from six feet

— tyson brody (@tysonbrody) May 30, 2021

It's really about commenting on who dropped the pie, and was it a good idea, or not?