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Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madison Cawthorn, and Lauren Boebert are relatively powerless in their day jobs as freshman members of the minority party in the House of Representatives, they’re mostly useful for running up the score when Republicans lose votes in the chamber. Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, doesn’t even sit on any of the committees that shape legislation, having been booted from her assignments earlier this month for supporting the execution of Democrats and promoting multiple moronic conspiracy theories.
But all three understand that attention is the most valuable currency in Washington, and they’ve lined their pockets with your time and mental energy even before they were sworn in last month. That’s because the US political system, and part of the news business that covers it, are broken in complementary and destructive ways, the academics Joshua P. Darr, Jeremy Padgett, and Johanna Dunaway argue.
Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, and the
Hartford Courant, as well as other local newspapers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Florida. Tribune already counted Alden as its largest shareholder; Alden was offering $14.25 per share to take full control of the company. Yesterday, following weeks of wrangling, Tribune announced its intention to sell to Alden at $17.25 per share. The deal as a whole is valued at $630 million, and would take Tribune private.
Alden has become notorious and widely reviled for its tactic of ruthlessly slashing costs at its existing media properties; in 2018, staffers at the
Denver Post, where management had just moved to cut thirty jobs, assailed their owners as “vultures” in an editorial that resonated across the media industry. “Media observers note that they make cuts almost from day one. Pens and notebooks disappear from newsrooms. One newsroom was missing hot water. Then newspaper buildings are sold, and staff is consolidated
Committee assignments are normally a blessing for new House members. But some of today’s newer members, like freshmen Republican representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Madison Cawthorn, seem to be more interested in punditry than policy.
When Greene was stripped of her committee assignments on Feb. 4 for a series of past statements that included threats directed against her Democratic colleagues, she replied by tweeting that she woke up “literally laughing” that “a bunch of morons” had given her “free time” to promote her views in the media.
Meanwhile, Cawthorn, in a recent email to colleagues, noted that he built his staff “around comms [communications] rather than legislation.”