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Remember: people can't have any personal indulgences *and* be considered a regular everyday person.
Unless they're golden toilets. Golden toilets are fine and normal. https://twitter.com/jamisonfoser/status/1352702455310475264
Unless they're golden toilets. Golden toilets are fine and normal. https://twitter.com/jamisonfoser/status/1352702455310475264
To reiterate: the reason you're seeing headlines like this and will likely continue to see them is that Biden's Administration has message discipline and isn't cannibalistic.
They're professionals and they're on board with the President. They're not inclined to leak.
They're professionals and they're on board with the President. They're not inclined to leak.
Trump's White House was chaos, with people jockeying for favor and everyone's employment being based on Trump's capricious whims.
You create an environment like that, you incentivize leaks to the press as a weapon against office rivals.
You create an environment like that, you incentivize leaks to the press as a weapon against office rivals.
But now there are no constant leaks, no daily insider tips, no headlines at the drop of a hat.
Journalists have been ruined by "access journalism." The only way many of them know how to find stories is by making allies of the powerful and becoming an extension of them.
Journalists have been ruined by "access journalism." The only way many of them know how to find stories is by making allies of the powerful and becoming an extension of them.
On the other hand, investigative journalism is a painstaking progress of digging for information and evidence in order to build a well-researched and fact-based story.
It's not cost effective and it tends to anger the powerful, so it's not a widespread practice.
It's not cost effective and it tends to anger the powerful, so it's not a widespread practice.
So now we have a press corp who for four years relied on a steady stream of inside tips to create headlines, and now they don't have them anymore.
So they're flailing.
Peladon bikes. Rolex watches. Throw it at the wall, see what sticks.
Dogs without masters, man.
So they're flailing.
Peladon bikes. Rolex watches. Throw it at the wall, see what sticks.
Dogs without masters, man.
