It’s funny how journalists admit Vice President Kamala Harris is getting a media honeymoon, and then deny it means anything.
Ben Smith at Semafor sent an email noting “Republican fury” at the gushy pro-Kamala bias and claiming, “But who are we, and Republicans, kidding? I wish we had that kind of power. The news media can’t make and break politicians [even Democrats] anymore.”
He wrote this right after weeks of a brutally negative media drumbeat that was part of driving President Joe Biden out of the race.
Smith was promoting a July 28 Semafor article by reporter Max Tani titled “A more media-friendly Kamala Harris runs for president.” The Harris campaign is starting late, but for years now, Harris has been building relationships with her Democratic allies in the so-called mainstream media elite.
We’re told she’s invited a “parade of…
