Thursday, January 23, 2025

GET ME REWRITE: White House press corps is in a Leslie Moonves kinda of mood



HeadlineColumbia Journalism Review, 1/21/2025

 It's all about 'eyeballs'.
“I think it’s important for people to understand the context, that we’re coming out of four years of Biden and things haven’t been great,” one White House print reporter told CJR. “There’ve been fewer eyeballs on the press briefings and less attention than under Trump, so people just don’t understand some of the very frustrating things that we’ve dealt with and that we hope are going to be rolled back.” [emphasis added]

Related posts:
2024
Former CBS exec Leslie Moonves spilled the beans about news media priorities 9 years ago:  Democracy, meh!  "throwing crap", YEE-HAW!!!!!  (11/10)

2023
Day 3,017 of mainstream media normalizing of grifter and serial liar Donald Trump. (9/17)

2022

2018
Good riddance to Leslie Moonves, Donald Trump enabler.  (9/7)


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