Posted on 12/30/2020 5:30:06 AM PST by lowbridge
CNN‘s Jim Acosta and Jake Tapper both predicted in new interviews that the media will change under the incoming Biden administration, arguing that the new president will likely provide for less combative coverage.
Mr. Acosta, the network’s chief White House correspondent who has repeatedly made headlines for his confrontations with President Trump and even wrote a book about his contentious relationship with the current administration, told The Atlantic in a piece published Tuesday that he “couldn’t stomach” the president’s attacks on the press and his “fake news” tagline.
“The drama has made him famous,” The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins reports, “but Acosta said he doesn’t expect to bring the same crusading style to his coverage of the next administration.”
“I don’t think the press should be trying to whip up the Biden presidency and turn it into must-see TV in a contrived way,” Mr. Acosta told the outlet.
“If that sounds like a double standard,” Mr. Coppins reports, “Acosta told me it’s not partisan — it’s a matter of professional solidarity. In his view, Trump‘s campaign to discredit the press has constituted a ‘nonstop national emergency,’ one that required a defiant response.”
“If being at the White House is not an experience that might merit hazard pay,” Mr. Acosta said, “then perhaps it is going to be approached differently.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Tapper, CNN‘s chief Washington correspondent, toldCNN host Brian Stelter during “Reliable Sources” Sunday night that he doesn’t expect to have to dedicate as much time aggressively fact-checking the Biden administration as he did for Mr. Trump.
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Chicken and egg. Accost-uh was combative with the Trump administration from the moment the President rode the escalator down to join the race, but he wants all blame to go to the very people he attacked on a daily basis.
Funny, I did not see “slobbering,” fawning,” “drooling,” or “butt-kissing” in the article.
It will be a real sloberfest.
They’re both partisan jackasses Jim
The leftist media really is the enemy of freedom. They have chosen sides and demand your and my complete subjugation to leftist orthodoxy.
JoMa
If ‘journalists’ behave this way in Russia, it gets MUCH EASIER to see why they keep turning up dead there.
A seamless shift to North Korean level pro-Biden propaganda.
Will David Brooks go back to reporting tbe perfection of the presidential pants?
Where is Captain Obvious when you need him.
These guys are done. They just don’t know it yet. I would advise them to figure out how to live off of what they’ve got now. Like pro sports people should.
Change...so instead of hateful political “gotcha” reporting we’ll now know the administrations food/vacation preferences and their pets antics.
What are you even talking about?
“ It will be a real sloberfest”
What will be?
The press will be humping on the next Communist admin like a dog in heat. Their submissiveness and obedience will make even the old Pravda staff blush in embarrassment.
They will be bitching about lack of access before February has passed. Jen Psaki is a notorious bitch who will offer nothing of value to the press. They are Biden’s useful idiots.
This sounds like an admission and confession that they willfully contributed Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in ILLEGAL IN KIND Political Contributions to the Demonrat Party and that they will Continue to make ILLEGAL IN KIND Political Contributions in the future.
Shouldn’t they be ARRESTED and CHARGED for this CONFESSION???
Proof that the media insists on the most benign environments for themselves, and a one-way street between they and the American people. This isn’t something we adapt to, it’s something we’ve been instinctively rejecting like so much vomit-inducing foreign object debris, unwittingly ingested over decades of exposure.
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