'Really want to go there?' NYU journalism prof's media defense is laughable

Media strategist @TheRickWilson has a widely discussed piece at Politico Magazine about how Republicans should respond to the “fiasco” surrounding Hillary Clinton’s email:

Morning, Twitter. I've got a piece on how to handle the Clinton emails up at @POLITICOMag for your reading pleasure. http://t.co/ca68tMgg68

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 9, 2015

In Wilson’s article, he stated that “Hillary really put a wrench in the media’s plans this week.”

Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at New York University, didn’t agree at all:

Idiotic: "Hillary really put a wrench in the media’s plans this week." http://t.co/OJE0K9m8X5 Embarrassingly stupid.

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) March 9, 2015

@jayrosen_nyu Your hate sustains me.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 9, 2015

@TheRickWilson I don't hate you. I don't know you. Chances are you are a kind man and decent person. Your piece is dumb. That is all.

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) March 9, 2015

@jayrosen_nyu My read on the Clintons, their handling of the media, and their gameplan is based on long, long experience.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 9, 2015

And anybody who’s kept an honest eye on the mainstream media will have noticed that a pack mentality exists, and it doesn’t lean to the Right:

Poor @jayrosen_nyu doesn't like that @TheRickWilson has a winning strategy, and is playing chess while the media predictably plays checkers

— Bull Durham (@Jon_Locke) March 9, 2015

https://twitter.com/tubbuh/status/574777855025917952

@jayrosen_nyu pic.twitter.com/KY9PhB6KIn

— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) March 9, 2015

@jayrosen_nyu @TheRickWilson Objective American media…. pic.twitter.com/VcEJOPZpUj

— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) March 9, 2015

@jayrosen_nyu @TheRickWilson What's stupid about it?

— Kinsey Holley (@kinseyholley) March 9, 2015

@jayrosen_nyu I use liberal tears for hydraulic fracturing. Works good. Lasts long time.

— Uncle Jimmy, Sewer Launderer (@jneutron1969) March 9, 2015

@jayrosen_nyu @joshtpm The media hates this story so much they started Meet the Press with it.

— Eric (@WaldoWilbur) March 9, 2015

https://twitter.com/jfgroves/status/574773718536318977

For added laughs, Rosen went back a few years and repeated this doozy:

From my piece in 2008. "Just so you know, 'the media' has no mind… It does not 'get behind' candidates." http://t.co/m0VkVQFKfO

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) March 9, 2015

That’s funny!

LMFAO RT @jayrosen_nyu: From my piece in 2008. "Just so you know, 'the media' has no mind… It does not 'get behind' candidates."

— RBe (@RBPundit) March 9, 2015

@jayrosen_nyu you're not really dull enough to believe that, right?

— J (@JWoodOMFS) March 9, 2015

@jayrosen_nyu Good one, man. Good one.

— Kemberlee Kaye (@KemberleeKaye) March 9, 2015

@jayrosen_nyu Journolist was a mere figment of our imaginations.

— The Great Gazoo (@Tom_in_STL) March 9, 2015

https://twitter.com/jfgroves/status/574775631914860544

@jayrosen_nyu

You mean – like media LMSM lapdogs didn't & still aren't behind #ObamaTheCandidate?
Oh WAIT…?
Really want to go there?
??

— ????????? (@Serafinos) March 9, 2015

https://twitter.com/JeffWaksman/status/574776188754751491

@jayrosen_nyu Nope, media doesn't have its own "mind" or agenda. http://t.co/hFHMtubtAY

— Patrick H. (@trogdor8768) March 9, 2015

Not at all!

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