Hopefully the mods are okay with a little journalism about journalism so that people know where Politico stands in terms of being a trustworthy source.

The headline in question:

‘Next question’: Harris evades questions about her identity

The background to the headline is from Harris’ recent CNN interview:

“I want to ask you about your opponent, Donald Trump,” Bash said to Harris. “I was a little bit surprised. People might be surprised to hear that you have never interacted with him, met him face-to-face. That’s gonna change soon. But what I wanna ask you about is what he said last month. He suggested that you ‘happened’ to turn Black recently for political purposes, questioning a core part of your identity.”

“Same old, tired playbook,” Harris replied. “Next question, please.”

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    Journalism was already in a death spiral but this type of article just highlights it.

    They’re just taking a secondary source with a shitty headline, cherry picking spicy reactions on Twitter and then writing another shitty headline.

    I could theoretically do the same thing, cherrypick Twitter and then post the following “article” to my own shit-tier political news blog:

    “Mediaite panned for misleading headline about headlines.”

    The only “sources” I have to cite are random Tweets that I preselected because they already agreed with my point of view.

    We are approaching something that is close to the opposite of journalism.