Journamalism: The rot in American journalism runs deep and wide.

The New Yorker gave Susan Glasser the baton thinking she would write about “Sleepy Joe”—old, low-energy, and senile. But did it take her even an hour to switch over to the new Republican message—that there is something wrong with “Shouty Joe”? No:

Tom Levenson: ‘It must run in the family: I read Susan Glasser's New Yorker SoTU piece. It's...not good There's "shouty" Old Joe Biden (who, may I say, is old) taking on "reliable bad guys" while being mean, pardon, "unusually partisan." She quotes Hannity, no Ds. This is what elite media failure looks like. Glasser is half of the leading political journalist power couple w. her spouse, NYT's Peter Baker. The piece read as if it were written to a pre-existing frame. Biden's old; he's "shouty," not forceful, & the substance of the speech itself was dismissed as boring stuff that will never happen. And much of it was poorly written and worse thought theater criticism, describing how she (with no reporting or data) thought it landed. Vibes "journalism" throughout, describing a scene very different from the one I watched. Who to believe? A compromised media or my own lyin' eyes... <bsky.app/profile/tomlev…>