Saturday, July 22, 2023

Hypocrisy alert, Dan Froomkin world

 Dan Froomkin blared on Thursday the actual headline of "Political reporters encourage DeSantis to cheat."

What's up is that Froomkin is butt-hurt that national stenos aren't distinguishing between DeSantis' PAC and his Super PAC.

If he called it reporter stenography or laziness, I'd be with him. And he's right on the ever-tighter PAC-Super PAC "coordination."

Yes, it's Fox, but Warmonger Joe Biden's Super PAC isn't exactly clean of dark money.

To put it another way? Despite the likes of Ballot-Access News calling out Mother Jones for getting campaign finance law wrong vis-a-vis No Labels, and The Atlantic printing the current electoral cycle's tired, old and certainly false tropes about how a vote for Cornel West is a vote for Donald Trump, I see nothing about stuff like this on Froomkin's site.

And under his headline rubrics, MoJo and The Atlantic are "encouraging the Democratic National Committee to cheat."

In essence, Froomkin strikes me as a one-man band semi-parallel to Media Matters for America or similar, the guy working the refs for the #BlueAnon half of duopoly media on election reporting.

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