Dear anonymous White House press corps print reporter: It's called grooming. Best, Retiring Guy

Headline:  Columbia Journalism Review, 1/21/2025

They like us, they really like us!!

“Despite his sometimes strident and sometimes even violent rhetoric about the press, he loves talking to us,” the print reporter said. “And his team—they like talking to us, and they know that they’re going to have a huge audience.”

Sally Field as a stand-in for a groveling White House press corps.

Related posts:

2025

White House press corps is in a Leslie Moonves kinda of mood.  (1/23)

2024

Former CBS exec Leslie Moonves spilled the beans about news media priorities 9 years ago:  Democracy, meh!  "throwing crap", YEE-HAW!!!!!  (11/10)

Apology not accepted.  You fuckwad TV honchos always put profits over country.  (10/17)

Media's normalization and sanewashing of Donald Trump triumphs in 2024.  (11/10)

What's wrong with the New York Times?  Getting back to the business of normalizing of the Trump Cult.  (11/7)

Normalizing and sanewashing Donald Trump works to perfection in Collin County, Texas.  (11/6)

Apology not accepted.  You fuckwad TV honchos always put profits over country.  (10/17)

Headline sanewashes Trump's Nazi rhetoric.  (10/10)

Sanewashing Demented Donald Trump rallies.  (10/9)

Mindblowing, sanewashing dissonance of headline and lede.  (9/26)

New York Times works overtime to normalize the 2024 presidential election.  (6/26)

2023

Day 3,019 of mainstream media normalizing of grifter and serial liar Donald Trump.  (9/19)

Day 3,017 of mainstream media normalizing of grifter and serial liar Donald Trump. (9/17)

2022

Apparently, Brookings plans to spend the next two years normalizing Republican Party's thoroughly toxic agenda.  (12/16)

2018

Good riddance to Leslie Moonves, Donald Trump enabler.  (9/7)

2015

And you wonder why we get nothing but fluff from the mainstream media!  (12/10)