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

For many people complacency reads as safety?

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.

If you could imagine publicly praising fascists, etc for ”openness” and then didn’t, maybe you have more pride or discrimination?

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