New White House influences are a terrible look

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“I am a kind of student who studys a lot when it comes to reporting.

It was possible to be a strange question for the correspondent – whose mission is to consider, rather than putting power on how to publish his message – to put Leavitt at a press conference, but this was not a reporter. Kambree Nelson, “Al Qaeda Activist, is influential on social media” and the respected American Policy Ambassador “, with more than 600,000 followers on X. A woman who felt annoyed last year after she stopped the ability to see the moon in the sky. “Why is everyone silent about this?” she Posted on X. “They are calm around the white sun too” (reference to a Conspiracy This says that the sun has changed color in recent years).

In fact, this was not a press conference. No, this was a new session for publication – sorry, “New media” surroundingAs described by YouTube for the official White House – which was held in three consecutive days this week.

It may have been precise to hold Levit to the official title instead of entering each session as a “moving briefing”, which gave the game out of its purpose. “I hope that more people in the old media are like you,” Levitte answered Nelson. (There is no doubt. “The President does many huge things every day that will never be mentioned on the cable news … and this, again, why do we welcome independent voices like you, with social media followers, because this is the best way to get these facts and those facts there.”

This is not the first step that the White House took in the Crusader campaign against the so -called old media, which is the term Raw Elon Musk, from We describe In December as “Psych Op”. Trump has already banned the Associated Press from briefing because it refused to summon the Gulf of Mexico “the Gulf of America” ​​(I think I am now banned, too), and he is the boycott judge Ruling on being unconstitutional. Last month, the Trump administration Remove the permanent stain for wire services In the press gathering. This week, the White House was launched Its website is similar to its newsWihahus.

I can see what they are trying to do here. To start, the institution – a term with a little less indicative of “Legacy” – the media suffers from a major representation problem. Study 2022 By the 1600 -year -old Cyricks University in Newhaus, American journalists found that only 3.4 percent of them knew themselves as republicans, a decrease from 7.1 percent in 2013 and 18 percent in 2002.

Moreover, the media in the institution has made many things recently, in particular-not by chance-nine years or so since Trump has been disrupted to the political scene. from Covering the fragility of Joe Biden to Explicitly reduces the objectivity of reporting To photograph those who asked about the Wuhan Wet Market Origen story for Covid-19 as the arsenal theorists, some major ports seemed to be more interested in paying a specific agenda than searching for the truth.

But it is easy to miss wood for trees: just because there are some examples-in fact a lot-as they make it wrong, it does not mean that the institutional media, with all its examination and balances, and reporting that “new media” usually lacks it strongly, can compare them significantly with this mouth.

And let us be clear – these “new influences” are not, as Levit said, an attempt to “speak to all media and personalities.” I saw the three and noticed any outlets or personalities generating the left. Sean Spicer, one of the ancestors of Levitt, has discovered; Bitcoin Fanatic Trump Supervan has turned Poxpliano; Arane Wixer, “Just an unprecedented girl in the world of Krazil,” they started: “I can bear witness to the deportation in Florida: Uber drivers are finally speaking in English, so I thank you for that.”

Dealing with these “influential” as if they were equally with serious journalists not only respectable; It is dangerous. A briefing contract in which only friendly advertising models can be welcomed in Pyongyang, but this is supposed to be the capital of the free world. For the president who seems to have such an instinctive understanding What makes good opticsThis, frankly, a terrible look.

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