Following up on Joe’s post yesterday about Jon Ossoff’s ability to tie things together — especially about the Mar-a-Lago Mafia’s corruption, this is pretty stark:
Popular Information analyzed coverage of Kushner’s diplomatic role from the outset of the war with Iran on February 28 to April 19. During that period, 202 articles mentioning Kushner’s role representing the U.S. in negotiations with Iran were collectively published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, CNN Wire, The New York Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and The Los Angeles Times.
Only six of the 202 articles covering Kushner’s diplomatic role mentioned his financial conflict of interest with the Saudi government. That means more than 97% of the coverage ignored Kushner’s conflict. Of the six articles that covered the conflict, five appeared in the New York Times. The other article originally appeared in Foreign Policy and was republished by the Washington Post.
The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, CNN Wire, The New York Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and The Los Angeles Times collectively published dozens of articles about Kushner’s diplomatic role in the war with Iran but never mentioned the conflict.
Even if one wants to cling to the fantasy that legacy media is read widely — it clearly isn’t — they’re not going to publicize the corruption of the Trump regime. It’s up to Democrats like Ossoff, and all the others, to make this part of the 2026 and 2028 message.
More evidence of that is the ritualized debasement at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the Red Wedding of Media fetes.
Donald Trump’s FCC chair Brendan Carr is set to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Status has learned, where he will mingle with journalists and news executives at an event ostensibly about celebrating the First Amendment. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...
— Status (@status.news) 2026-04-21T02:24:43.246Z
Recent podcast guest Mark Jacob has a good post on the correspondents’ dinner if you need any convincing that it should be canceled.
The press as an institution, as reflected by the “best” papers in the US, is broken beyond repair. Democrats can’t wait around for it to rehabilitate itself. Our up-and-coming stars need to learn to open our mouths the way Ossoff did, and not the way that Andy Beshear did the other day. Beshear said that the problem with Democratic messaging is using words like “justice involved population” (Beshear is the first Democrat I’ve heard use that term). The problem with Beshear’s speech is that we’re past the meta-conversation about what Democrats should and shouldn’t say. We need more show, not tell. If Beshear is really such an awesome communicator, he should have given a barnburner hitting the notes that Ossoff did in the speech Joe quoted. No more meta-discussions about language, and a lot more language, please.
