I’ve actually had two brief Twitter arguments with Maggie Haberman. She is not as bad as many of her critics maintain, but she is the prototype of a certain kind of New York Times reporter, who sacrifices truth and accuracy for access to powerful government sources. In a way she is the Judith Miller of the Trump era (that is an exaggeration, she is nowhere near as bad as Miller was).
Still, any reporter, even Maggie or Chucky Todd, is a hero of the Republic in the era of Trump’s constant war against the press. On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 8:16 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 7:37 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On a day when a seditious mob directed by a US President to break into >> the Capital to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power, and one of >> them scratched into one of the Capital doors “Murder the Media”, I did not >> want to spend my time bashing US coverage. > > > Today on CNN, Jake Tapper referred to Maggie Haberman as one of the top > two journalists in the country. I swear I did an actual spit-take. > > > >> >> But a day later, I will note that I wound up watching most of the days >> events on MSNBC (I was working from home, and happened to have a 90 minute >> break about 20 minutes into the event, so was kind of stuck for a while >> with MSNBC, the channel my tv happened to be on). A lot of their reporters >> in the field did a good to very good job, but, so unfortunately, Chuck Todd >> was in one of the co-anchor chairs (remember, we were supposed to be >> watching the EC count) and talked over, in his awkward, Toddish, insipid >> way the far more polished and insightful Katy Tur. >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BvPKhHhYUuARc5KpFu%3DbubFpe9WmivySG0qysiSOeqMg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BvPKhHhYUuARc5KpFu%3DbubFpe9WmivySG0qysiSOeqMg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4BHNQ3Z_qHSuvVByYuYXj-qp-prPUXULvoZYOMXSrxeDQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4BHNQ3Z_qHSuvVByYuYXj-qp-prPUXULvoZYOMXSrxeDQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKZ1M2B0wV_sU9C_oza3UKQLWeKEOoke1saKDRaE8PDyg%40mail.gmail.com.
