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Philip Bump
@pbump.com

Making a powerful person mad by demanding an answer they don't want to provide is precisely the job description.

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Trump Gets in Female Reporter’s Face Over $5K Check Proposal Grilling: ‘You’re the Worst!’

dlvr.itTrump Gets in Female Reporter’s Face Over $5K Check Proposal Grilling: ‘You’re the Worst!’President Trump snapped at yet another female reporter for ABC News, telling her she's "the worst" while he was pressed on his promise of $5,000 checks. The post Trump Gets in Female Reporter’s Face Over $5K Check Proposal Grilling: ‘You’re the Worst!’ first appeared on Mediaite.
Philip Bump
@pbump.com

You can become a journalist to be a TV star or to join the elites or to write an American canto or you can become a journalist to challenge power and advocate for the powerless.

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audreyii_fic
@audreyii.bsky.social

I don't understand why people aren't lining up to the the next Woodward and Bernstein. The lane to future deification is completely open. They'll make biopics out of the first journalist to go all-in.

audreyii_fic
@audreyii.bsky.social

For sure. But what we *haven't* had is someone really ask the hard questions to Trump's face over and over and over. Or even the rest of the admin! They maybe make a little attempt to ask something that isn't fluff, they're rebuffed, and then they just... stop. It might cost them access, after all.

audreyii_fic
@audreyii.bsky.social

For example: no one followed up on "Quiet Piggy". Not the person asking the question, not the other people in the press pool. The next person to speak didn't say "Sir, what the fuck was that?"

Cat_In_Virginia
@catinvirginia.bsky.social

Jim Acosta did that. My point is that Woodward and Bernstein reported on the corruption of the Nixon administration, as many journalists have reported on the corruption of Trump, but the difference is that Congress took action in the former case.

Howard Beale
@handle.invalid

1/3 You want to be a journalist? Strip away the romance. One path leads to the anchor desk, the network contract, the smiling nod at sponsored truths while your paycheck traces back to the same powers you claim to question—safe, lit, trending.

Howard Beale
@handle.invalid

2/3 The other path is dark: showing up at the uncovered city council meeting, asking why the water tastes like metal, following the money from landfill to LLC, publishing despite the cease-and-desist. It won’t trend, but it might keep a family in their home.

Howard Beale
@handle.invalid

3/3 Advocating for the powerless isn’t bias—it’s the minimum job requirement. Refusing to challenge power isn’t neutrality; it’s complicity. You’re not reporting then—you’re retransmitting the press release with better lighting. The microphone isn’t a trophy. It’s a lever. Choose what you push for.

Springtime for Hegseth
@schroedinger.bsky.social

What a lot of them don't seem to understand is that doing tough journalism would actually make them way more of a TV star than just being yet another talentless stenographer. Like look at Daniel Dale, he got a following for doing actual fact checking of Trump, now nobody thinks about him at CNN.