Democrat newspapers like The Washington Post love to tag conservatives as "conservative," and also as "ultraconservative," "far right," and "extremist." But they seem absolutely incapable of describing leftists and progressives as....leftists and progressives.
On the front page of Monday's Style section is a hilarious piece on depressed lefties turning off and tuning out their "news" sources. These "news quitters" are described as... "some people." The headline:
No news is good news
Some people disappointed in the election results are tuning out the media as a form of self-care
Nowhere in Izadi's story is anyone identified as on the left, or as a Democrat. The complete lack of ideological labeling includes the captions on C-2:
TOP: People watch a broadcast in Seattle on Election Day. ABOVE: TV watchers in Atlanta react as Vice President Kamala Harris gives a speech conceding the presidential election earlier this month. Some people are now skipping the news after Donald Trump's win.
Here's the story's lede:
Andrew DelPonte, a teenager in Maryland, started his days listening to NPR. Brandon Wilson, a professor in California, drove his long commute home blaring MSNBC on SiriusXM. And Michelle Mullins, who works on corporate food loss and waste in Arkansas, fell asleep most nights watching CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
That is, until Nov. 6. Since the election, they’ve had it with the news.
NPR, MSNBC, CNN: sources that the Post knows are Democrat strongholds. You have to love how much these Democrats don't want to hear Democrats blaming each other. Professor Wilson is unintentionally funny:
It was the Monday-morning quarterbacking he couldn’t stand; he felt it was too early to nitpick about how Harris had run her campaign, and he found “the finger-pointing and bashing of the Democratic Party” to be counterproductive. (It’s worth noting that liberal-leaning MSNBC saw a big drop-off in audience the week after the election, whereas Fox News saw a big jump.)
“We’re all absorbing a lot about what this win is going to mean, and the last thing I need is a lot of things that raise my blood pressure,” says Wilson, 53. “Like blaming the candidate for some obvious problems with the electorate, like misinformation and disinformation.”
Blame the electorate! They voted Republican, which means they were misinformed!
Izadi of The Post even implied that The Post had been essential reading for frustrated Democrats, like 36-year-old Drew Stanecki:
So he immediately turned off the notification alerts on his Washington Post and New York Times apps. During Trump’s first term, he read so much news that he had to institute a “no-Washington-Post-after-7-p.m.” rule so he could sleep at night.
Now he doesn’t want anything pushed to him.
Izadi doesn't want to trash these "news quitters" as overly emotional or immature, just adaptive. "Look at that: Humans doing something psychologically beneficial for a change." Unless they never return to reading the Post. Permanent "news quitters" won't be good for them.
