Liberal Journalists Rediscover Mission As Obama Leaves Office

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Daily Caller:

The end of Barack Obama’s eight years in office combined with an incoming Trump administration has liberal journalists placing a renewed importance on holding elected officials accountable.

 

In an article published Monday, Politico’s Jack Shafer argues that Donald Trump has made reporters “free” to cover the presidency in a more aggressively critical manner than they did during previous administrations.

 

Reporters, Shafer says, “ought to start thinking of covering Trump’s Washington like a war zone.”

 

“Witness how many publications are selling subscriptions by promising to ‘hold Trump accountable,'” Shafer adds later, arguing that “It’s not winter that’s coming with the inauguration of Trump. It’s journalistic spring.”

 

Liberal media members on Twitter received Shafer’s rediscovery of journalistic purpose with enthusiastic applause.

 

“Hear, hear! Has there ever been a more interesting time to be a reporter?” Politico’s Josh Dawsey cheered.

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Yeah, when his predecessor was in office...