Sorry, media, that Biden doesn't fulfill the excitement you need in your jobs. Explore a career change if you don't want to report on a competent president and prefer constant outrage and lies every day.
The media’s behavior in these desperate times have often left me angry, frustrated and confused. Your piece has put reason and logical explanations to my reactions. Thank you for this.
I love that several commenters here describe President Biden's talks as "soothing" or "calming." I feel the same way. We have huge challenges ahead - Repubs having outdone themselves in the level of real destruction wrought by TFG - but it's a joy to have an Adult in charge.
I totally agree with you and others and have been finding substance over entertainment very soothing. However, I don't think any amount of pushback or outrage will change the ultimate inherent motive of media companies: outrage drives eyeballs drives profit. In the same breath in which you criticize this rotten coverage, lift up independent substance-oriented media platforms like Crooked, etc.
I hate to say this, but we all are loving 'boring'. There are some 'journalists' like Matt Viser, who I won't even click on. Right around in NH primary, he was tracking Biden's flights, saw he was heading to Wilmington, DE on either primary day or the day after. Surmised and wrote an article about Joe dropping out. I say to myself, no way is that why he is going home. His dog may be dying and that's why he is going home. Then I commented on Viser's Twitter feed the next day, 'Can you say Anita Dunn?' He's an idiot...Joe was going home to re-tool the campaign...every single article Viser writes tries to be a 'gotcha' and he fails miserably, every single time.' I'm glad to see you are on this, Eric Boehlert is on this and so is Julia Ioffe. A plague on the NYT.
Thank you Dan. Not Boring but exactly the opposite. I find Biden’s speeches calming because he presents facts and truth and he gives me hope.
Sorry, media, that Biden doesn't fulfill the excitement you need in your jobs. Explore a career change if you don't want to report on a competent president and prefer constant outrage and lies every day.
Political journalists/analysts are BORING.
Yes! Please media, no more coverage of TFG; simply say “still lying, provoking anger; dangerous”
The media’s behavior in these desperate times have often left me angry, frustrated and confused. Your piece has put reason and logical explanations to my reactions. Thank you for this.
Thank you for this. Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
Great rant! (I'm a little late, was camping and off line.
I love that several commenters here describe President Biden's talks as "soothing" or "calming." I feel the same way. We have huge challenges ahead - Repubs having outdone themselves in the level of real destruction wrought by TFG - but it's a joy to have an Adult in charge.
It's nice not to have a visceral reaction every time the president speaks.
I totally agree with you and others and have been finding substance over entertainment very soothing. However, I don't think any amount of pushback or outrage will change the ultimate inherent motive of media companies: outrage drives eyeballs drives profit. In the same breath in which you criticize this rotten coverage, lift up independent substance-oriented media platforms like Crooked, etc.
I hate to say this, but we all are loving 'boring'. There are some 'journalists' like Matt Viser, who I won't even click on. Right around in NH primary, he was tracking Biden's flights, saw he was heading to Wilmington, DE on either primary day or the day after. Surmised and wrote an article about Joe dropping out. I say to myself, no way is that why he is going home. His dog may be dying and that's why he is going home. Then I commented on Viser's Twitter feed the next day, 'Can you say Anita Dunn?' He's an idiot...Joe was going home to re-tool the campaign...every single article Viser writes tries to be a 'gotcha' and he fails miserably, every single time.' I'm glad to see you are on this, Eric Boehlert is on this and so is Julia Ioffe. A plague on the NYT.
Thank you for unpacking and unraveling the NYT’s piece and this whole genre of nonsense.
Excellent points, Dan.
I'll take boring any day... but this is not boring. It is soothing. When our president speaks it is of substance, not of chyrons.