if the Kat Abu saga tells you anything it's that journalists will go to incredible lengths to keep you from knowing about the conflicts of interest that they know about when said conflicts involve their friends
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they knew Nuzzi was trying to get into RFK's pants for months and the only reason any of us found out was because RFK couldn't keep his weird little mouth shut
granted not a current employee but this former onion editor sure seemed to think that the outlet has influence with the public and an obligation to use that influence responsibly!
So your argument is that “influential people” have to disclose when they are dating each other? The Onion never claimed to be an unbiased source of news, so it doesn’t make sense to hold them to that standard
I think if you’re the CEO of a very well known and influential company and you’re publicly supporting your girlfriend’s political career you have an obligation to disclose it yeah
generally him and his coworkers melting down about the whole thing and insisting they were way more candid than they actually were because they definitely know it looks kind of shady, especially when they were similarly circumspect about being funded by a billionaire
And when she's already facing valid criticism for carpetbagging, and now it turns out that not only is she running for office in a district she does not and has never lived in, she also lives in one of the most upscale neighborhoods in the city.
which would be fine had she not boxed herself in with poverty cosplay rhetoric and then they doubled down that she NEEDS TO live in that neighborhood because of her narcolepsy
Like the fact that Ben was like “We HAVE to live here bc we don’t have cars so we have to walk” as if Chicago doesn’t have one of the 2 best public transit systems in the country.
Want to know why reporters who interview David Shor never ask about his racist comments? It’s because they’re friends & know they can’t print the answers.
the Maggie Haberman dance of "my scoops are unique and valuable" and "you can't be mad at me for sitting on my scoops because everyone knew them anyway"
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(like david brock, she's a little but nutty a little slutty.
https://youtu.be/mbMPWa4FrXM?si=kinhysR8SPhAwtv6
The bar isn't low, it's buried.
NARCOLEPSY???
And the prescription is a $4,000 / month luxury apartment in Gold Coast?!