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Mon Apr 13 07:16:58 +0000 2020

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john r stanton @dcbigjohn

Meanwhile the world is in 2020. Sure they’ve adopted the mechanics of the modern world, but they’ve not adapted to how the people and institutions they’re covering have changed. It’s like trying to use a Commodore 64 to build a newspaper website today. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 13, 2020 Hibernated

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john r stanton @dcbigjohn

This has me thinking about how the institutional drag in journalism has undermined our country. Staying stuck in the old notions of how we do our job while the world has evolved has done such a disservice to our nation and the world. Baquet and his ilk insist we play by 79s rules — PolitiTweet.org

Ashley Feinberg @ashleyfeinberg

Dean Baquet is profoundly unsuited to deal with Trump, just incredible https://t.co/qGMoiYx5hO

Posted April 13, 2020 Hibernated

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People in our industry revere Tim Russert, for obvious reasons. But I wonder if he was around now and being put in charge of MTP if he’d be what he was back then. I kind of doubt it. Dude was radically different. He pressed politicians in ways not done before. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 13, 2020 Hibernated

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