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The White House spent four years vilifying journalists. What comes next?
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The day after the 2016 election, I got a phone call from an old friend. Neither of us had slept much, and we spent most of the conversation exchanging shell-shocked comments of the
Can you believe this? variety. Before we hung up, his voice took on a trace of irony. “Well,” he said, “this is going to be great for your career.”
I waved the remark away, but I knew he was probably right. My contentious relationship with Donald Trump was already paying professional dividends. A couple of years earlier, I’d written a widely read profile of the candidate-to-be after traveling with him to Mar-a-Lago. Trump responded to the story by throwing a theatrical tantrum, complete with Twitter insults, blacklist threats, and a
Reporters who cashed in on anti-Trump ‘resistance’ settle in to go easy on Biden Print this article
President Trump is the best thing to happen to the news business in a long while.
Ratings are up, and news subscriptions are booming. And as several journalists discovered early on, performative opposition to the Trump administration comes with lucrative speaking gigs, cable news contracts, glow-up profiles, and large followings on social media.
But now that a Democrat is set to occupy the White House, many of the same reporters who coasted to book deals and better jobs on the back of the anti-Trump “resistance” are not sure what comes next. All they know is that they’ve no intention of approaching President-elect Joe Biden’s presidency with the same histrionics and hostility that boosted their careers in the Trump era.
Media Promises Kinder, Gentler Coverage Of Biden
“The Resistance’s Breakup With the Media Is at Hand
The White House spent four years vilifying journalists. What comes next?”
Just from the headline it is completely evident that the media STILL doesn’t get it. Given all we have reported here at Victory Girls, the resistance has been the media themselves and those non-biased journalists have had their knives and pitchforks out for the Trump Administration 24/7.
The media has been so vilified and attacked that…they got book deals and TV shows!
“As the White House beat became the biggest story in the world, once-obscure correspondents were recast in the popular imagination as resistance heroes fighting for truth, justice, and the American way. They were showered with book deals, speaking gigs, and hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers. They got glow-ups to accompany their new cable-news contracts, and those glow-ups were covered in glossy magazines. Along
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