Politico’s Playbook Is A Perfect Encapsulation Of The Self-Obsessed, Out-Of-Touch Reality Of Corporate Media

The paragraphs leading the newsletter are titled "IS TUCKER CARLSON LOSING HIS MIND?" and try to parse what the four authors of the newsletter call the recent changing tone of the host of one of cable's most-watched programs, which they characterize as "Especially strange for a self-styled anti-nanny state libertarian." Now, in order to think that Tucker Carlson is "a self-styled anti-nanny state libertarian," you would have to rely on caricatures of the man from literally the early 2000s when he co-hosted CNN's "Crossfire." You would have had to have been completely unaware of his nightly broadcasts for the past nearly five years of his show.

For the authors of Playbook, it betrays a complete lack of understanding of the ground shifts in the American politics they cover - and where half the country now is regardless of what shows they watch.

You don't have to have traveled the country to realize that outside of Washington, New York City, and a few other paranoid left-wing cities, the vast majority of the country has moved far beyond such foolish behavior.

While the four authors of Playbook wait breathlessly on the CDC's constantly shifting "Guidance," the broad majority of the country didn't wait on a couple of lab coats in Washington to change a stupid rule to decide if their five-year old should wear a mask in the woods or on a playground.

The New York Times, which itself buried the news 22 paragraphs down, knows better - and should understand proper news judgment - so their reasons might be more difficult to parse, but Playbook's treatment is far more likely because they are lazy, don't understand, and just take The New York Times's chosen headline for the big takeaway.

The month before that, on March 5, when the country was gripped in a border crisis, news of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's cover-ups and sexual harassment allegations was exploding, and the national government was working to seize election control from states, Politico chose to make Trump the lead. In their email, they mentioned the former president's name nearly 40 times.

How, you might ask, could they possibly report on a country they don't even begin to understand, never mind defend its morality? It's delusion, of course.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/28/politicos-playbook-is-a-perfect-encapsulation-of-the-self-obsessed-out-of-touch-reality-of-corporate-media/