The Politico takes a look at the current trend of reporters leaving their jobs to go work for politicians. Naturally, they go pretty uniformly for Democrats.
On Tuesday, Cox’s Scott Shepard joined Sen. John Kerry’s office as a speechwriter, becoming the second journalist this year to take a job under the Massachusetts Democrat. Investigative reporter Doug Frantz is now chief investigator under the Kerry-helmed Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
A week before Zuckman announced that she’s headed for Obama’s Transportation Department, her Tribune colleague Peter Gosselin signed on as speechwriter for Obama’s treasury secretary, Tim Geithner.
In December, Jay Carney relinquished his perch as Time’s Washington bureau chief to become Vice President Joe Biden’s communications director. Warren Bass left the Washington Post’s Outlook section to write speeches and advise Dr. Susan Rice at the United Nations. Daniel W. Reilly left Politico to become communications director for Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) Linda Douglass left the National Journal for the Obama campaign back in May, and is expected to become assistant secretary for public affairs in the department of Health and Human Services.
Al Hunt does his best to spin this as a matter of economic circumstances. He says these journalists didn’t go with Bush in 2001 because back then no one thought about the newspaper industry going under.
That’s crap. He knows and we know that when you go work for a politician, you work for the party you align with. That’s what these reporters are doing. They would not have gone to work for John McCain had he won.
The more troubling question though is what happens to these people in four or eight years. Will they cross right back over into reporting? I would not be surprised. But we should be concerned.
There may be a silver lining here Erick...
Attack Mode Wednesday, February 18th at 9:42AM EST (link)These “reporters” are coming from a failing industry, print media, the chances are good that they were part of the problem. Maybe they will bring their failure with them, and the Obama Administration could be a super failure by relying on them.
I mean, I would think you could only promote failures for so long before it eventually catches up with you and brings you to failure as well.
We will see.
“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger
“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.
5 5 5 ....nt
JadedByPolitics Wednesday, February 18th at 9:45AM EST (link)…
Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy
55555
Erick Erickson Wednesday, February 18th at 10:05AM EST (link)n/t
Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?
For the sake of us all, I hope you're right, Aaron.
Rod_Patrick Wednesday, February 18th at 10:16AM EST (link)Note that the opposite of your theory is very troublesome….
….. A Drive-by Media (with a badge of D) hunting all Republicans and Conservatives like preys and sacrificial lambs to the altar of the Great D (-emoncrat) god named Obama.
No worries Rod...
Attack Mode Wednesday, February 18th at 10:24AM EST (link)They can come with their 1st Amendment….I will be waiting with my 2nd.
“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger
“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.
Aaron, you're on a roll
Erick Erickson Wednesday, February 18th at 10:25AM EST (link).
Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?
heh...I better write something quick before I lose it....;^)..nt
Attack Mode Wednesday, February 18th at 10:31AM EST (link)“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger
“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.
freaking brilliant
E Pluribus Unum Wednesday, February 18th at 12:18PM EST (link)In fact, I predict that they’ll bring the same failure right along with them.
Carthago delenda est
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Failure breeds failure
izoneguy Wednesday, February 18th at 9:54AM EST (link)The Obama administration from the get go is a failure.
Obama has to ram as much failure as he can in the 2 years he has.
The 3 Amigos will see the folly of their ways and will either go with Obama and jump over the edge or they might pull back and do some fancy tapdancing (which won’t save them anyway) - Obama will be embolded to push for more stimulus failures as the mother of all stimulus will only stimulate the conservative movement. So Mr. Obama you can gather up as many failed persons as you need but in the end it will only add up to the mother of all failures.
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
What's the problem?
jimmuy8 Wednesday, February 18th at 10:05AM EST (link)Democrats are right, they understand America and want what’s best for her. Why shouldn’t those who report on America and want what’s best for her work for the right cause?
Duh.
Go read some of the comments here
izoneguy Wednesday, February 18th at 10:11AM EST (link)http://hotair.com/archives/2009/02/18/california-republicans-oust-senate-leader-dig-in/
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
So says Helen Thomas
itrytobenice Wednesday, February 18th at 10:20AM EST (link)The Mother of the Fount of All Wisdom.
Reporters are informed therefore they are Democrats. Makes sense to me. Doesn’t it to you?
No wonder their industry is sucking air like a vacuum cleaner.
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Or should that be Great-great-great Grandmother?
itrytobenice Wednesday, February 18th at 10:22AM EST (link)Or Great-great-great Grandmother of the Wicked Witch of the West?
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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6eorge Jetson Wednesday, February 18th at 11:02AM EST (link)((please ignore)) fix to omitted end tag in prior post
6eorge Jetson Thursday, February 19th at 10:25AM EST (link)that’s messing up the remainder of my entire page.
Maybe Helen doesn't recognize the "Press bias"
6eorge Jetson Wednesday, February 18th at 11:46AM EST (link)What sells newspapers? It isn’t the the run-of-the-mill story about a business closing because costs exceeded revenues.
Maybe those that chase ambulences should reflect upon the world that they don’t report.
I have one curiousity,
DONTREADONME Wednesday, February 18th at 5:00PM EST (link)I wonder how many of these entered the print media in the not to distance future…
Warren Bass Washington Post editor of the Outlook joined WPost 2004
For all those interested… here is his biography from http://www.arza.org/assembly2008/national_assembly_bios/
Warren Bass is deputy editor of Outlook, The Washington Post’s Sunday commentary and opinion section. He joined the paper in September 2004 as its nonfiction book review editor. Previously, Bass served as the lead staffer handling National Security Council issues for the 9/11 Commission and was one of the many writers and editors of the 9/11 Commission’s bestselling final report. He has also worked as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, as the director of the Council’s post-9/11 terrorism program, and as an associate editor at Foreign Affairs.
Hmmm, I just picked one out of Eric’s list and already found suspicion (remember I just randomly picked what was the chance?)… time to look at the others…
“The UN is right? you can’t be any more “un”; Than you are right now, the UN is undone, Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun, The threat is real, the Locust King has come, Don’t tell me the truth; I don’t like what they’ve done, Just give me ammo for the United Abominations”-Megadeth
Yikes what is wrong with the Font? -nt
DONTREADONME Wednesday, February 18th at 5:01PM EST (link)“The UN is right? you can’t be any more “un”; Than you are right now, the UN is undone, Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun, The threat is real, the Locust King has come, Don’t tell me the truth; I don’t like what they’ve done, Just give me ammo for the United Abominations”-Megadeth
I answered my own dumb question...
DONTREADONME Wednesday, February 18th at 5:12PM EST (link)they worked for Time, ABC, etc… I don’t even know why I feel I have to find out about these people. From what I can find on their biographies, just reading experience you can tell that they would take advantage of other Democrat positions. whoops, I mean making the switch from reporter to Democrat lap dog, whoops I mean reporter to a stable position with the , darn-it whatever, why do I bother.
“The UN is right? you can’t be any more “un”; Than you are right now, the UN is undone, Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun, The threat is real, the Locust King has come, Don’t tell me the truth; I don’t like what they’ve done, Just give me ammo for the United Abominations”-Megadeth
I omitted a </font> tag that is spilling over onto
6eorge Jetson Thursday, February 19th at 10:29AM EST (link)the rest of the page.