Great piece on the skewed incentives in modern mainstream political journalism by Dan Froomkin:
https://presswatchers.org/2022/11/heres-what-political-reporters-care-about-and-its-not-you/
"reporters respond to four core constituencies: Their editors, their sources, their peers, and right-wing trolls.
The public – and the obligation to accurately inform the public – just doesn’t rank. (And infuriating the left is considered a plus.)"
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