Occurs to me that part of the reason why NYT/Politico/et al are mad about their lack of access to Harris is because without access the political desk is totally adrift. There’s shockingly little capacity to, say, read campaign policy papers and find the story in there.
Harder to get a nifty sound bite that way.
As the kids say these days, skill issue.
Theyve been spoon fed their whole professional lives
Maybe Harris would give them access if a.) they didn't report on her and her opponent so poorly, and b.) if it wasn't plain as day that every interview would be the exact same from everyone, no matter how hard they try to get her to slip up.
Yeah it's not like they actually have something useful to say if they can't get lazy DC gossip access scoops
All the money and access is in sucking up to authoritarians and corporate power, when they're not busy publishing contrarian trolling op eds
The Politico-ization of the Grey Lady (access journalists Maggie Haberman, Ken Vogel, Shane Goldmacher, et al.) is an underreported story in media criticism. "[T]hat tabloid, Twitter-fied sensibility [is] bleeding into the Times," a colleague told Vanity Fair back in 2017.
She’s a West Wing-beat colossus and a sui generis creature at the paper of record. “Maggie’s success is very much part of that tabloid, Twitter-fied sensibility bleeding into the Times,” says a collea...
I think you're on to something there. Maybe add in that policy is hard(?) and requires a fair amount of work/thought that isn't presto write up. And why the easy fall-back is access journalism, which goes to your point.
It's all about demanding that she prove her ability and willingness to contribute to their bottom lines and show deference to their ability to control the narratives...and that is 100% proven by their willingness to manufacture bad forms of the latter in order to extort the former.
They could EASILY cover her at-home eldercare funding proposal by talking with policy folks, advocates, and regular human beings whose lives would be affected by such a policy. (They'd probably still be sure to include a quote from one of Trump's freakishly rage-filled flacks, but ok.)