Journalists. You’re the reason why politicians have to script everything and pretend they don’t believe things they do. Because you are incapable of dealing with the slightest variation in style, rhetoric, substance, without losing your minds. Get a hold of yourselves. The world does not revolve around you.
Don’t write things with headlines such as “Savannah Guthrie fight casts shadow on Rand Paul’s debut.” As David Burge said of that piece, “I defy you to write a better satire of a hysterically butthurt ‘reporter.’” He added the point all journalists should know by now: “Media interviewers shouldn’t let candidates ramble on through inane political talking points. And vice versa.”
The media have more than enough power as it is. The idea that people can’t respond to them outside the narrow parameters they set is just ridiculous.
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