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You would sell your mother for access

If they're responding its because its to their advantage. That should be obvious. They don't care about you, you're just another way to push their agenda.

Speaing of tone deafness and 'maintaining access' nationalinterest.org/feature/why-...

What will it require for political journalists to stop thinking politeness in a crisis is the point?

Are you positing that a hard-right, anti-journalism figure would get such a nice vibe from such a post about someone else and then alter their own behavior towards the media as a result? Someone once said, "there is no idea so outlandish that it doesn't have its own constituency." Q.E.D.

If your job is reporting What Is Happening, you get that the bar is (or should be) *truthful*, not *helpful*? Thanking a departing official for their openness after they’ve lied to your face for over a year is pathetic. You do see that? It’s kinda making us all a bit crazy.

lol … come on, Mr Steinglass. What is there about ANY far-right regime currently in power that makes you think they’d try to improve — especially thanks to a complimentary press??

You don’t in fact have to hand it to the fascists

You would get piled on for that. It would be extremely deserved.

Have you written similar?

Please find a new job. Access is not necessary for the one you have. Thinking it is means you probably are not good at it. That's okay. Find something you are good at.

Leavitt spent January calling myself & my neighbors domestic terrorists and defending the abduction, torture, rape, and murder of other neighbors, including children. What "openness" in this political rhetoric and positioning do you feel merits praise? She is quite explicitly a lying propagandist.

That’s true but you really are missing the point here. We see politicians lying and reporters overwhelmingly reprinting those lies as plausible or simply unchallenged. Then we see reporters thanking the liars for making it easier to print their political spins. And we lose faith in the reporters.

Oh gosh. You're an editor for the Economist. I just shake my head. Even if she tells you things, how can you know they are the truth when all she does is lie in public. You're basically okay with thanking Sauron's mouth for answering questions while not on camera lying to the masses.

Everyone downplaying the danger we're in, is beyond frightening.

You’ve completely lost the plot.

He praised her niceness, not her openness.

Now I think you're, at the very least, a fascist apologist. But more likely a full blown fascist. Thanks for that, I guess.

That makes you pretty pathetic

In private, Goebbels was very nice and accommodating.

It's not openness just because they are polite when they lie to you privately.

What's wrong with simply observing that the Führer loved dogs? 🙄 I'd also reject the very notion that Leavitt ever, at any point in time during her tenure, provided any service or info that was of any value to "the public," as opposed to the usual self-serving agitprop slop this regime extrudes.

No, no- you don't get it; when she wasn't shitting all over you she was sort of nice to me

That does sound easier than doing journalism

It's good for the public, actually, when people who lie constantly are helpful in giving me access.

she's fucking lying to you matt. she is loudly and plainly lying to you and not even bothering to turn around before she calls you a fucking moron who should be fired

"this fascist is happy to lie to us every time we gave her a chance!"

do they pay you to be stupid or are you stupid for real

but what about when they fact check them by noting that the lies are "controversial" or maybe that "some experts disagree"

Zero sympathy when Trump comes for you.

I wonder if it matters if they're lying.

No there are things they could say that would be worse than ignoring you especially when they know they're getting a free mouthpiece of press-laundering. If Goebbels gave you a comment that was a screed on the diseases of The Jew would you print it as the government's comment?

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Dude they banned the AP from the press corps because they wouldn't lie about Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico. How are you all so gullible.

all while they know the fed gov't is actively snatching people off the streets (sometimes killing them!) and putting them in concentration camps.

You can tell lies to people even when you're off the record

You've adjusted well to fascism.

It doesn't take a professional to uncritically report what the people in power want you to hear.

You sound like someone in an abusive relationship.

It's cute you keep saying propagandist by spelling it 'spox', what a really neat, cute little term that is, makes it seem friendly and not all scary like 'propagandist', you know, the people literally trained & intent on spreading their message. Almost makes them seem quirky, the public likes quirky

Contacting the spox isn't mandatory

The public does not benefit from being lied to more efficiently

Because they respond to you, you think it gives you license to repeat their lies to the public as if it were truth? Got it. So not a journalist; just a stenographer for RWNJs.

There is something fundamentally wrong with you lot. Everyone understands the ethics of journalism except for you actual journalists.

do any of them give you a little kiss on the forehead, or a pat on the head? do they tell you you're a good dog?

How they treat YOU personally is irrelevant. The fact that Leavitt lies 24x7 is the point. No one gives a shit if she's nice to you. They care that she lies in service to fascism. The press does little to counter that. THAT'S the problem, sir. The fact that you don't get this is diturbing.

Crazy thought here, but you could report on how fucking two faced they are in real time. But I get it, don’t implant yourself into the story and just let lunatics spout lies all the time. You wear that crown.

The annoying thing is you're fundamentally not understanding why they respond - they consider you a means to an end. They will use you while they need to and then abandon you when your use has expired. Did you learn nothing from the media excluded last year for political purposes?

So you'll support the praise the christofacist liars like Levitt because they were "responsive"? Answering questions is in her effig job description and just because others are worse at being nice when they lie to your face, it doesn't make her publicly praiseworthy.

Why do you "have to contact their spoxes"? Why do you have to ask someone to lie to you?

"We have to contact their spoxes to report on them." Seems silly, honestly.

How is that good for the public? If people who are actively spreading misinformation and hate are friendly and helpful to you when you write articles about their misinformation and hate, how does that benefit the public? All it does is normalize them even further

Seriously abuser/abusee dynamic. You beat me but then gave me a bath and a cookie.