Tuesday, September 3, 2024

People have always complained about the establishment press, but increasingly the calls are coming from inside the house.

Obviously, this is anecdotal, based largely on the sample of journalists and bloggers I follow online and whom they choose to quote and repost, but within that limited field of vision, a divide has opened substantially, particularly since Biden stepped out of the race.

People on both sides of the divide are at least nominally supporting the Democrats – – at this point it is difficult to find anyone in the establishment press arguing that another Trump presidency would be acceptable – – but while those on one side are greatly pleased by the way the handoff has gone, the other side is curiously upset by recent events and often seems, deliberately or not, to be clearly biased against the Harris campaign. As a result, differences in approaches are growing more stark and both sides are getting increasingly annoyed. Those who are happy with the new status quo are losing patience. Those on the other side are getting more and more defensive.

As Josh Marshall puts it.

I've explained this before. But in addition to a lot of frivolous and biased journalism the real root of a lot of what you see in the elite press isn't bias precisely. Certainly it's not that the reporters are right wingers or Trumpers. It's something different but insidious.

If anything, the faction that seems to be rooting against Kamala dominates the establishment press with the epicenter being, of course, the New York Times, but what's unusual this time is how many establishment figures are making their criticisms public.

Mark Jacob Ex-editor at Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times







"A stack of turned phrases don’t add up to an argument or a point." Doesn't that describe every Dowd column?

This Wolfer's clip shows how fed up people like him are with the way these issues are being covered.

 

 Matthew Cooper  Executive Editor—Digital, Washington @Monthly, Alum: @Time, @Newsweek, @CondeNast, @NewRepublic

Kai Ryssdal, host of Marketplace.

 



It's safe to say this guy had to be pretty pissed to go after public radio.

Not so bold but in some ways more significant is the veiled criticism coming from actual NYT writers. This goes right up to the line of publicly criticizing the paper, and with the exception of Paul Krugman (who is very much a special case), that is the one rule you do not break.

 From  Paul Campos

I should have mentioned that Edsall includes this not too subtle dig against his own employer:

“Yet, Wilentz writes, “many of even the most influential news sources hold to the fiction Trump and his party are waging a presidential campaign instead of a continuing coup, a staggering failure to recognize Trump’s stated agenda.”

 


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