Claiming Alexander Nazaryan speaks for all reporters who covered Trump as I and others did over the whole 4yrs is truly absurd. Nazaryan completely ignores the abject terror Trump created for huge swathes of Americans and others. This seems about selling his book on Trump.
https://twitter.com/reedgalen/status/1359862199100071936
Nazaryan loves saying repeatedly that he had access to the President and was hanging out with the likes of Steve Bannon and it was so cool. He utterly ignores the facts of the Trump presidency and claims fact checking made for boring copy (and thinks it's entre nous to say copy).
Nazaryan's piece is meant to drive traffic--though I want to meet another person who actually read to the end of this piece other than me--and to allow folks who hate the press irrationally, which is a disturbing number of folks I otherwise like on here, to hate us more.
This is an irritating paean to a certain kind of privilege & as such undermines the point for most of us who haven't attained the level of self-important cynicism Nazaryan evinced: Journalism should be truth to power. Nazaryan may have lost that plot, last graph notwithstanding.
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