Seems like the WHCD gave the MSM bluechecks a taste of the viper cult’s venom and they spat it out, interesting to see what comes of that

Reminder again that at the start of Reagan’s term young journalists were in the same position - coming off a generational shift and the experience of previous replacement of a Bad, Not Us administration with a Very Us Thus Good one, with a mission that looked like “holding power to account” from the inside and “presuming to correct the electorate’s self-rule” from the outside

and when the pendulum swung back and The Smiling Fascist came to power they were Ready to Resist

(I mean in fairness he DID take office using substanceless mass media charisma to push a vision of volkish renewal, delivering a program of aggressive militarism, labor suppression, and renewed repression of the subaltern-as-contaminant right when it seemed an alternative had taken hold)

And part of that getting cut off at the knees after a year or so was editors and other previous-generation gatekeepers reigning it in, not even on the principle of “These things must be respected”, but “Jesus Christ, take that shit to Village Voice or The Nation, our audience is the public not your team”