Probably the wire services people haven't staked their entire livelihood on access journalism, nor live in fear of not being invited to beltway soirées
Wall Street and The Beltway run on very expensive uppers.
The Beltway is fine, it's the Virginia drivers who are the problem
That looks suspiciously like the beltway. Around NH Ave?
Counterpoint: The NYT is garbage and their articles are colored beyond recognition to create, frame or amplify self-serving narratives that mostly aim to cement their own influence over beltway insiders, elites and politicos.
favorite example of this is when Trump got covid and we clowned on him all night with no shitty beltway pundits to tell us off lol
This theory has to explain why the experts, the people paid by campaigns, and the campaigns themseleves, spend so much $ on polls maybe the experts are just beltway bandits ?
The argument against this is that the experts, the people who are paid to work for the campaign, spend a lot of money on polls. Now it could be they aren't real experts, just scam artists, "beltway bandits" but arguments against polls should explain this
Finally, Washington Week's guest Susan Glasser of the New Yorker interrupted the beltway horse race chatter to call out Trump's outrageous, anti-democratic pronouncements. There haven't been enough instances of MSM pointing out that the emperor has no clothes.