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‘New media’ is just right-wing media 

(From L) Political commentator Rogan O’Handley, aka DC Draino, TikToker Chaya Raichik, US conservative activist Scott Presler, commentator Liz Wheeler and US conservative political commentator Chad Prather carry binders bearing the seal of the US Justice Department reading “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” as they walk out of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2025. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Hello and welcome to a post-October Federal Holiday edition of Regulator.

Last week, I caught wind that House Speaker Mike Johnson, along with several top House Republican leaders, had held an exclusive press briefing about the government shutdown that was restricted to “new media.” The contents of the meeting were published as a “scoop” by the Washington Reporter – a Congress-focused publication founded by several GOP operatives that’d been established as a Punchbowl for conservatives – which described the call as “set[ting] the record straight” and “the latest way that House Republicans are taking their messaging directly to the American …

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Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/column/799904/new-media-is-just-right-wing-media

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