The only thing I would add to this very good 🧵is, when Biden et alia decided to antagonize the political press corps, they didn’t turn them into a foil—they reaped the downsides of pissing off the political press corps without gaining any of the benefits.
Could not agree more and Anita MF Dunn knows exactly what to do there and how it can go wrong (2009, Fox) and she appears to have learned all the wrong lessons from it
I also think they all got used to getting easy scoops with the leaky-ass Trump admin, and are mad Biden's staff doesn't leak them juicy gossip. Not much Biden could do about that unfortunately.
Not engaging them is the same to them as antagonizing them. They are indeed idiots but after seeing what they did to Hillary's campaign, I think Biden should have bitten the bullet and given the NYT their interview.
All you are doing is placating the bad children who won't stop. Only way to defeat them is to make this public and point out that the Times has their finger on the scale as they did with Clinton. And for people to unsubscribe. Anyone still subscribing is paying money to elect Trump.
Placating them when they have the power to create this damaging narrative about his campaign would have been smart, IMO. I think "making it public" would be taken as whining from the rest of the press. NYT has had their finger on the scale at least since Gore and mainstream press refuses to notice.
