JAZZ SHAW: The media suddenly seems less interested in the Nerd Prom. I wonder why? “The Fourth Estate is supposed to be policing the government, not getting drunk with it. While there may be nothing overtly in violation of journalistic policy going on, it’s always just looked bad. When the public observes the federal government and the press all getting together to laugh and laugh and laugh we have to eventually begin wondering who the joke is really on. (Spoiler alert: It’s you.)”
But that’s not the problem: “No, what Margaret Sullivan is really seething about is the fact that Trump has already been making the media the butt of his jokes pretty much since he declared his candidacy. Can you imagine what he’d have to come up with to top that material at the dinner? By the time he got done ripping into them I somehow suspect that there wouldn’t be many reporters laughing along with him at the tables.”
As I keep saying, they’re not smart enough to be nerds. And under Obama it played out more like student council members sucking up to the principal.
