A question I think we're going to hear more and more alongside the Biden revelations coming out in 2024 election books: Did the media blow it?

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CNN chief Mark Thompson begins interview at @semafor.com media summit by saying he doesn’t trust mass media.

“I’d rather have a questioning audience than a compliant audience,” Thompson says.

For the weekend Hive newsletter, I asked Tom Kludt about the significance of Trump attending the Super Bowl

Where the power lies in Trump administrations, via @time.com

Feb 2017 and Feb. 2025:

During the 2024 race, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social was clear-eyed about Project 2025 and the stakes for a second Trump term

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Just thinking back to this prescient June 2023 piece:

"People I spoke with predicted widespread career resignations under another MAGA presidency"

"...president will purge careerists who dare to dissent against the commander in chief."

www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06...

Good point from @daveweigel.bsky.social

Latest @newyorker.com cover

Reminded of this "Inside the Hive" episode in which McKay Coppins recalls his conversations with Mitt Romney about the threat of political violence

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While Trump’s 2024 victory further questions the influence (and relevance) of traditional media in millions of Americans’ lives, this phenomenon has been years in the making.

Revisiting my dispatch from Trump's 2016 victory party:

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