“Is suddenly in doubt”
“Has boomeranged”
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a purer example of the press depersonalizing its own role than this. Holy Christ.
The story decides itself and it only channels itself through me, its prophet, and also the story is telling me to tell you that I’m cool and smart and everyone likes me.
The funniest part is that times did that exact headline, but with Trump as the subject, and framing it as him being smart and savvy for being a stupider Roy Cohn.
We are in an awful situation where there are enough vile people in power that the kind of corrosive cynicism towards government that makes sure *only* vile people seek power has a degree of justification. It's a bad cycle we need to break.
Lots of people On Here go on about how officeholders are servants of the people and not masters (correct) and that therefore we should spit on them (wrong).
The press needs to conceptualize itself as a disembodied presence; once people start focusing on how the sausage gets made, it becomes apparent that “media strategy” is politicians, lobbyists, etc. just working the refs all the time
Chris Rufo’s agent clearly knows someone at the Times; there’s no reason why his complaints about the Ivy League couldn’t be relegated to page 23 or whatever. How come it was front page news? Well,
Hey, we'll get to the stack of Trump Dictator articles ( they really do exist in a warehouse in Canada) right after we work through the backlog of Biden Old articles. Be patient.
