Jack Schaefer Trump Is Making Journalism Great Again

Is about of the media that covers national politics happy that Joe Biden won the presidential election? If and so, are they actually happy that Biden won or would it be more accurate to propose that they are happy that Donald Trump did not?

In that location's a difference.

After years of lying to the press and denigrating the media by calling it "imitation news" and "the enemy of the people," Trump and many in his assistants (read: his press secretaries) won't be missed by most of the news media.

And if that is true, it seems logical to predict that Biden volition have a honeymoon period with the media simply because the new president isn't the former president.

Withal, at that place's this headline on the latest piece from Political leader'south Jack Shafer: "The Biden Honeymoon Won't Last." Shafer says the rule of thumb when it comes to a presidential honeymoon is that it lasts nigh 100 days. For Biden, the fact that the media will be dealing with someone (anyone) other than Trump might buy him some more than time. Then once again, with the state in a tumultuous land because of COVID-19, the economy, racial tensions and political divisiveness, the honeymoon might end speedily.

Shafer writes, "It's not that the press isn't willing to take shots at a new administration, it's that they're busy lining upward the shots they might want to take. Busy compiling dossiers on the president'south team and developing sources in the new administrations, reporters can't devote as much time to scrutinize him as straight as they'd like. Besides, they just got done doing that during the campaign. Nosotros caught a glimpse of Biden'south poor press management skills at the end of the entrada as he snapped at being asked legitimate questions most court-packing and once more when the subject was the New York Post piece on his son Hunter. Reporters don't listen politicians with short fuses or existence abused considering that's all part of the job, merely at some indicate, the payback always comes."

Biden is a political veteran, so he might be a scrap more shrewd in how he deals with the press. Only as Shafer alluded to, Biden has shown, at times, to be a little thin-skinned, short-tempered and occasionally secretive when dealing with the press.

Shafer writes, "Every bit an assistants matures, presidential staffers share forbidden information with reporters in attempts to win the internecine battles inside the White House. Inevitably, the honeymoon winds downwardly, and trench warfare between the press and the president returns."

Biden's media nutrition

We all know what President Trump's media diet is because he tweets what he digests. He watches One America News (OAN), Newsmax and Fox News and he reads conservative outlets. Just what about Joe Biden? What does Biden consume every bit far as the media?

CNN'southward Brian Stelter recently asked that of new CNN contributor Evan Osnos, a staff writer at The New Yorker and the writer of "Joe Biden: The Life, The Run, and What Matters At present."

Osnos told Stelter, "The president-elect'due south media diet is what we would call the classics. He relies on things like The New York Times, The Washington Postal service, The Wall Street Journal. He reads some of The Economist and The New Yorker. A lot of it in impress. He also relies on Apple News to help him become headlines from other reputable media sources. What he is not doing, of grade, is reading things like Newsmax, he's non watching One America News Network."

Osnos also said that Biden reads columnists, mentioning The New York Times' Thomas Friedman by name.

Meanwhile, Pol'southward Daniel Lippman likewise chronicled Biden'due south media consumption. Jay Carney, who was communications director to Biden when Biden was vice president, told Lippman, "Biden reads a lot, but doesn't watch a lot of TV news. Tin can't remember him ever watching Tv set in his office when I worked for him."

Withal, Lippman reports that Biden does watch some TV, such as MSNBC'southward "Morning Joe," as he gets ready for work. He also checks in on how Pull a fast one on News covers him, and even tracks some of the viral tardily-night TV moments. And he will watch CNN occasionally.

Lippman as well writes, "Like many other politicians, Biden gets a clips package at 9 a.1000. On a busy twenty-four hour period, information technology can stitch to fifty pages. On a slower day, it is more in the 15- to 20-page range."

Trump's favorite outlets

1 America News' Chanel Rion, left, asks a question of President Donald Trump during a conference earlier this yr. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)

A survey this week by Gallup and the Knight Foundation shows Newsmax and OAN are picking up some momentum — you would call back largely in role to Trump trumpeting their coverage. The survey shows there has been an increase in those who listing Newsmax and OAN amongst news sources they most rely upon.

The Washington Post's Aaron Blake writes, "Many more than still reference Play a joke on News, just Newsmax in particular has risen significantly in the consciousness of American news consumers."

That'due south only one noticeable shift toward more conservative news outlets among many. Blake also writes, "Combined, Newsmax and OAN gained 11 total mentions per 100 people — upwards from just one combined in that July 2022 survey. Play a joke on was mentioned past 27 out of 100 people, which is its second-lowest rate in 11 surveys, although non significantly unlike from previous ones. Other conservative outlets, including the Daily Wire, Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh's bear witness and the Blaze were also mentioned as much or more than in previous surveys. If yous combine them with Newsmax and OAN, they've risen from six mentions per 100 people in July 2022 and early 2022 to 19 in 100 people today."

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Stern stays

Howard Stern. (Michael Zorn/Invision/AP, File)

Howard Stern — for my money the best modern-twenty-four hours radio personality and one of the about influential media figures of any generation — is non going anywhere. Despite speculation that Stern was getting close to hanging up his microphone, Stern announced a 5-year extension with SiriusXM on Tuesday. In addition, SiriusXM will hold the rights to Stern's sound and video archives for an additional vii years.

Financial terms were not disclosed, but the buzz was the bargain could exist worth as much every bit $120 million a year. He is believed to be making in the $90-$100 million a yr under his electric current deal.

Difficult to believe, but Stern has been with SiriusXM for 15 years now. Originally, it was a stunning and risky move for Stern to go from terrestrial radio to satellite and SiriusXM. But, just like most every decision in Stern's career, it has turned out to be a brilliant move. He reportedly has about forty million subscribers.

In a statement, Stern, who turns 66 next month, said, "Despite the naysayers and the ridicule, nosotros have persevered, and are thriving. I've been proven right virtually satellite radio over and over over again. With this contract renewal, I can't expect to run across what else I'll be correct about. … Plus, now that I tin can piece of work from dwelling, I but don't have an excuse to quit."

Meanwhile, on air earlier this week, Stern had harsh criticism for President Trump for focusing on trying to overturn the presidential election instead of focusing on the coronavirus.

"This is treasonous, what'due south going on right now," Stern said. "Telling people to run around, go to rallies. … Y'all've got a guy in charge who doesn't know near hard work. Let's face up it."

Tweet of the 24-hour interval

In the wake of the Supreme Courtroom rejecting an attempt by Republican candidates in Pennsylvania to block the land's election results Tuesday, pretty much knocking down Trump's last Hail Mary attempt, FiveThirtyEight'due south Nate Silvery tweeted, "'SCOTUS will steal the ballot for Trump' is ane of those takes that was pop (for unlike reasons) both among a certain blazon of liberal and on the Trumpy right and manifestly doesn't look also good in retrospect."

When CNN's Wolf Blitzer announced the news on Tuesday, he said to the network'due south White House reporter, Jim Acosta, "The Supreme Court merely dealt the president a huge setback. It looks again and again like it'southward completely over for the president. He's going to have no choice just to accept reality."

Acosta said, "It'due south been over for weeks, Wolf, and it's over once more — if that'southward a good fashion to describe information technology."

A shot in the arm

Margaret Keenan, the beginning patient in the UK to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, administered by nurse May Parsons at University Hospital, Coventry, England on Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020. (Jacob Male monarch/Pool via AP)

Perhaps the biggest news of the day Tuesday was the Britain launching the West's commencement mass coronavirus vaccination. Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 adjacent calendar week, was the first to get the shot. She told the Associated Press' Danica Kirka, "I feel so privileged to be the first person vaccinated against COVID-19. It's the best early birthday present I could wish for because information technology means I can finally wait forward to spending time with my family and friends in the New year's day later on beingness on my own for about of the yr."

Next up? An 81-year-former man named whose name is — check it out — William Shakespeare. And this William Shakespeare comes from Warwickshire, the aforementioned county where the world'due south nigh famous bard was from.

Also vaccinated Tuesday was 91-year-old Martin Kenyon. In a charming interview, Kenyon told CNN's Cyril Vanier that he simply called upwardly the infirmary and they told him to come on in. "It didn't hurt at all," Kenyon said. "I didn't know the needle had gone in until information technology had come out. It was painless."

Now that he has received the vaccine, Kenyon said he can hug his grandchildren.

"No betoken in dying now when I have lived this long, is there?" Kenyon said.

An interesting comparison

Cable news stations like to brag about their Telly ratings. For instance, Fox News touts that Tucker Carlson drew an average of three.4 million viewers terminal week. And that's a healthy number … for cable news.

But consider this: According to Sports Business Daily's Austin Karp, last week's Pittsburgh Steelers-Baltimore Ravens NFL game, played on a Wednesday afternoon of all times, drew 10.8 1000000 on NBC.

A sad anniversary

Photos, flowers and candles are left at Strawberry Fields in New York'southward Central Park on Tuesday to remember John Lennon, the old Beatle who was shot to death on Dec. 8, 1980. (AP Photograph/Mark Lennihan)

Tuesday was the 40th anniversary of when John Lennon was shot and killed outside of his flat building in New York City. Many people start learned of the horrific news from famed sportscaster Howard Cosell. Click here if you've never seen the clip of the "Mon Night Football" game when Cosell informed viewers that Lennon was shot and rushed to a hospital where he was, Cosell said grimly, "dead on arrival." And here'due south some other clip from ESPN on how it was decided that Cosell would break the news.

Mediaite's Leia Idliby has an excellent recap of how the various networks covered the news of Lennon's decease.

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