Thread by @ggreeneva

This is just about the most ghoulish piece of political journalism I’ve ever forced myself to read. politi.co/2ZtoL02

“Thousands have died, but DeSantis’ prospects in 2024 — which have ebbed and flowed with the pandemic — have resurged as the refrigerated trailers parked at Florida hospitals begin to fill more slowly.”

– this Politico article, essentially

Just a repellent, thoroughly macabre piece of work.

Well, quoting Republican sources on a Republican politician — for a story that, like those Republicans, glosses over the matter of preventable mass death — is simply what reporting with neither fear nor favor looks like.

https://twitter.com/jamisonfoser/status/1441446840503717890

I remember how some editors & journos flinched when @WesleyLowery remarked that news orgs should operate from a stronger sense of moral clarity. Well, this reporting lurches in the opposite direction — right into moral vacuity. Does anyone like the result?

Are we edified by reporting like this? If not, are we at least entertained?

I’m sure as hell not. politico.com/news/2021/09/2…