Dear Steven Shepard @politico, Your order of crow is ready. Best, Retiring Guy

 

Headline:  Politico

Election results: New York Times

The journalist mindset as revealed in the headline is the major reason Jennifer Rubin felt compelled to make this observation in a recent op-ed.

Jon Allsop at the Columbia Journalism Review captured the cycle of negativity that has distorted coverage of Biden. “If Republicans are pushing a But her emails! media strategy in an attempt to tar Biden, the primary motivation, as I see it, is to foster cynicism; the aim is not a false equivalence that equally apportions credit, but one that conveys a sense that everyone in politics is just as old, just as corrupt, just as bad as each other, and that consequently, integrity doesn’t really matter and anything goes,” he wrote. “Journalists who indulge this effort can convince themselves that they’re only asking questions, or covering what voters think or what politicians are saying.” He added, “It’s the logical endpoint of a media ecosystem that approaches every story through the prism of elections — an approach that has always been cynical itself.” And worse, it legitimizes unacceptable Republican behavior and distorts the threat MAGA forces pose to democracy.