Some weeks are the fuse, and some are the bomb. This week seems to have been the fuse (of course, there are still several hours left for Trump to take advantage of the Friday news dump, soooo …).
Sam Osterhout & Max Burns met to look back on the week that was. While there weren’t any massive, groundbreaking revelations (at least by Trump 2.0 standards), there were a few stories that seem primed to blossom into something much bigger — and potentially much, MUCH bigger.
The cuts at the Washington Post is a great example. A nearly 50% gutting of its newsroom will have a massive impact on the media as a whole. While CBS is shedding viewers at a historic rate — by some measures — they are still doubling down on Weiss and their right-wing framing. Did the Washington Post need to make such dramatic cuts? Well…it’s complicated.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos has the means to operate that newsroom for decades without flinching. Certainly it’s possible he could have bought time to reconsider the business model, the content strategy, etc.
But instead, he’s killing it. This story will only get bigger.
And then there’s Tulsi Gabbard and the Fulton County election hub raid. This story has a dozen tentacles that extend to corruption, foreign influence, and election tampering at the highest levels. So far, we’re light on details, but the details we do have point to an enormous scandal.
There are other stories this week that we need to pay attention to — so many of which will have impacts on our midterms, one way or another.
What stories are you following and want more coverage of? Tell us in the comments!
