LOL.
Axios declared that the Sam Nunberg cable-news crapfest yesterday is “one of the reasons America hates the media”:
This is one of the reasons America hates the media. Our entire industry lit itself on fire because a troubled Trump hanger-on made an ass of himself — live. https://t.co/pWJGKtCZDZ
— Jim VandeHei (@JimVandeHei) March 6, 2018
This would be the same Axios, of course, that printed the Nunberg subpoena over the weekend but without attribution to Nunberg:
Didn't you guys anonymously print his subpoena without saying where it came from and label it "Mueller's hit list?"
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) March 6, 2018
So Axios is decrying the crapfest they started? Pretty much:
https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/971015011442286592
Yep:
It should be pointed out that @axios started this whole ball rolling by publishing the contents of Nunberg's subpoena….. https://t.co/XUZo29exC3
— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) March 6, 2018
Others criticized Axios for calling Nunberg a “hanger-on”:
Leaving aside that he was speaking about a newsworthy investigation, he's quoted extensively in Devil's Bargain, eg, w/r/t the early campaign & the run-up to it. "Hanger-on" is a weird description. https://t.co/HGjCAHdZds
— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) March 6, 2018
Again, Axios had no problem writing about the “hanger-on” when it was a blind item:
Axios wrote up the subpoena when it was on a blind. He was important enough to quote unattributed from that subpoena … https://t.co/lo2d25vurr
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 6, 2018
"Hanger-on" is false. Nunberg key part in steering Trump's political career from 2011-2015. Fact that Mueller subpoena has unhinged Nunberg is news. Axios prefers insider dope to actual journalism. https://t.co/QDeTuxcsV5
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 6, 2018
https://twitter.com/jaywillis/status/971030017923665920
Enough with the lectures, eh?
Axios is great. And its reporting is fantastic. But this is twice in a week now that they’ve lectured everyone else on what is and isn’t news with regards to the Mueller investigation. It’s more than a bit condescending and self-serving. https://t.co/5dPszhdUZG
— Sam Stein (@samstein) March 6, 2018
LOL oh get off your damn high horse, Axios. https://t.co/3EHzq5r9mB
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) March 6, 2018
It’s really that the public hates the media which also hates the media:
This is not actually one of the reasons America hates the media, although it may be one of the reasons that the media hates the media. https://t.co/zGGTzSZAMH
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 6, 2018
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Related:
Brian Stelter found a way to BASH Fox News for NOT going full bananas on Sam Nunberg https://t.co/6SxgqC8G8u
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 6, 2018
WATCH: CNN's Erin Burnett tells Sam Nunberg she can smell alcohol on his breath https://t.co/Y8wKBdHkPE
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 6, 2018
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