Egregious misrepresentation of the political culture in US by Dhume. In US the polity is deeply split and there is no universally respected journalist, unless we go by the opinions only of the beltway elites. Some hard facts in the thread below:
https://twitter.com/dhume/status/1350461294365835265
The Democrat base considers Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson of Fox News as stooges/enablers of Trump. Throughout the Trump era, as per Nielsen’s ratings the opinion shows by these two were in the top 3. Hannity would be at the top, Tucker 3rd. In the last year Tucker became 2nd.
On the other side of the political isle, GOP base considers Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo as propaganda arm of the Democrats. For most the Trump era, Maddow’s show had second highest ratings per Nielsen. Lemon+Cuomo were somewhat lower but still quite high +
In 2020 things changed somewhat. Maddow dropped to 5th, all four ahead of her were Fox News shows, Hannity, Tucker, Laura Ingraham, Lemon+Cuomo got to somewhere down. But Democrat base ridicule Hannity, Tucker, Laura all the time. So no universally respected journalist.
Incidentally, Dhume was saying great things about Chris Wallace some time back. He should check the ratings of his shows. Doesn’t figure in top 20 may not even be in top 50. This is the respect US public has for the journos respected by Beltway elites.
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