Count on the media reporters of The New York Times to come oozing to the defense of leftist anchors who’ve been dismissed (or left in an egotistical huff) now trying to attract an audience on Substack. We’re asked to feel sorry for “a handful of cable stars marooned from their mainstream media jobs.”
The headline of media reporter Jessica Testa’s Monday story set the tone:
The Loosening of American News Anchors
Don Lemon, Joy Reid and Jim Acosta, exiled or extricated from their networks, are now on Substack, trading sleek studios and “pancake makeup” for their living rooms.
Poor Joy Reid is still experiencing the “strange disconnect” of life without a kooky cable platform, and asked “what can I do to contribute to the world?” Testa added: “For now, she has landed on writing about democracy to an audience of about 118,000.”
Or you are urged to…
