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I'm increasingly under the impression that many of our most prominent establishment reporters simply aren't all that fucking bright

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Michael Hiltzik

@hiltzikm.bsky.social

14 Aug

Funny, but often when I asked the WH for comment on something I got an irrelevant, tendentious, or insulting reply

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

yeah curiously every time I reach out to the White House or FCC I get some sneering denial or silence guess I don't attend the right brunch functions

14/8/26, 2:49 pm3 reposts32 likes

Chris LaFortune

@cubreporter.bsky.social

14 Aug

Does the snearing come with a fun exclamation point? That really seems to make a difference for these folk. They're right! It is very cheery!

Rachel (loves LA, always will)

@rachelpowers.myatproto.social

14 Aug

The journalists I knew growing up—and Mr. Hiltzik, you almost certainly knew my parents—weren’t so well behaved. And subjects of their reporting knew that. Which is why the glass that fronted the office of Paul Conrad had been bulletproof since Watergate.

Michael Hiltzik

@hiltzikm.bsky.social

14 Aug

Your parents were...?

Rachel (loves LA, always will)

@rachelpowers.myatproto.social

14 Aug

My mom is Carol Powers. She was a features editor for ages. My dad was Charles Powers. Big writer there, hard to classify, then a fg correspondent. Deeply entwined in a lot of LAT lore.