Interestingly enough, I agree with Jim VanDeHei on this claim … and with the New York Post on the context.
Mediaite interviewed Politico’s co-founder, apparently before the revelations of how much revenue the publication got from government bureaucrats, about the state of the mainstream media. VanDeHei appears to have focused mainly on the overtly ideological media in declaring that the industry has hit a nadir, and that it’s time for the left-wing media to look for ways to reinvent itself. VanDeHei mentions MSNBC as a property that could still transform and adapt, for instance:
Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei said in an interview published Tuesday that the liberal media has reached a low point in popularity and influence over the American public.
“There’s a market for ideological,” VandeHei said in an interview with Mediaite. “The left right now,…
