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.”

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[–] 21 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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.

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