Whiny, "bored" White House reporters evoke no sympathy [View all]

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White House reporters are bored, Politico reports.

According to Politico’s own White House reporter Max Tani, they’re unhappy because they’re not getting the attention – or reaping the career rewards – that came with covering the madness of the Trump White House.

Biden “has been a journalistic sedative” compared to “the most theatrical, attention-seeking, Beltway-panic-inducing president in living memory,” Tani writes.

“Gone are the Tweets that sent newsrooms scrambling,” he notes, wistfully.

The constant lies, the wild incompetence, and the staging of an attempted coup all made for great material. Now, White House reporters say, “the storylines, while important, and substantive, can lack flair or be hard to get viewer attention.”

One anonymous reporter told Tani that Press Secretary Jen Psaki “is very good at her job, which is unfortunate.”

It’s not entirely clear whether Tani was looking for sympathy or writing ironically. But in either case, his article reveals a sad truth about political reporters in Washington: Trump was energizing to these people, while the hard work of governing leaves them cold.

https://presswatchers.org/2022/04/whiny-bored-white-house-reporters-evoke-no-sympathy/

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