• @[email protected]
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    1127 days ago

    They’re afraid to not get a chance to interview them again.

    If you’re a political journalist and half the politicians won’t talk to you, you have a problem.

    Now, a press with a backbone would of course retaliate by simply not showing anything of those politicians (just indirect statements, no pictures, no sound bites), but the press has no backbone, so…

    • @IchNichtenLichten
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      327 days ago

      Calling them the press is giving credit where it isn’t due. They’re stenographers, at best.