Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Jon Alsop, 1/21/25

Headline:  “Pomp, Policy, and Pardons”

Subhead:  “How the media saw Trump’s return to power.”

“. . .According to Punchbowl News, only twenty reporters were allowed inside to cover the proceedings, due to space restrictions. Whether they were the only journalists present, however, depends on how you define the term. Tucker Carlson was there, as was Joe Rogan. So were media moguls, plural: Rupert Murdoch, who needs no introduction; Bernard Arnault, who needs no introduction as the CEO of the luxury conglomerate LVMH but perhaps does as a French media tycoon; Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post. Bezos bought another journalist in with him: his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, a former local TV anchor in California. . .”

“. . .Kid Rock was on Fox News talking to Sean Hannity. He still had a cigar in hand, but was now dressed in black tie. After extolling the January 6 pardons as ‘great’—and dismissing Biden’s as a ‘clown show’—he turned his attention to the press and what he perceives as its unfair treatment of Trump. ‘I think people are really starting to see through what the mainstream media has tried to do to this man,’ he said. ‘It’s a travesty.’

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/pomp-policy-and-pardons.php