After the 2016 election, I sent private notes to a bunch of journalists/writers whose work helped me get through it all. While this one isn& #39;t over yet, I figured I& #39;d do it again, this time in public. So a thread of praise and thanks.
First of all, to my colleagues at @NPR, every one of whom is driven by a mission to inform, not ratings or, God knows, profits. Everybody makes fun of them for being so calm and neutral, but as many of you found out last night: calm and neutral ain& #39;t so bad, is it?
The WH correspondents at the @nytimes and @washingtonpost, who accomplished the remarkable feat of writing the Secret Inside History as it happened, in face of much grief from their subject and, occasionally, their audiences.
@Fahrenthold and his WP team, and the investigative team at the @NYTimes who uncovered the President& #39;s financial dealings -- including, finally, his tax returns! -- despite a huge amount of obstacles thrown in their way.
Similarly, the news staff of the @WSJ, who broke major stories about the President (including the whole Stormy Daniels saga) dealing not only with the usual obstacles but the clear preferences of the paper& #39;s ownership.
The Video Investigations team at the @NYtimes, who did amazing things with (duh) video, and @mikiebarb and his colleagues at the Daily, who did the same with audio.
People made fun of the "voters in diners" genre, but @AsteadWesley, @itscaitlinhd, and @mccrummenWaPo
among many others, wrote powerful stories of real people dealing with the real consequences of politics.
On Cable News, @brianstelter took a media-commentary gig and became an advocate for decency and honesty, and @JakeTapper lived up to his 2016 cri de coeur: "This is not about being anti-Trump or pro-Trump, this is about being pro-Truth."
There are lots of smart cable commentators and hosts, including @KatyTurNBC and @JoyAnnReid but @chrislhayes has a particular gift for stepping back and seeing the larger picture, which I appreciate.
@nhannahjones and @AnandWrites did the remarkable in their chosen areas (race and economics): they changed the entire grounds of debate, as evidenced by how much the other side organized to push back.
Both @TheAtlantic and @NewYorker have done amazing work, but I want to single out the investigative work by @JaneMayerNYer and the powerfully written analyses by @AdamSerwer, who& #39;s saw what was coming because he knows what happened before.
@ezraklein& #39;s work has been most useful to me in explaining the inexplicable, with major contributions from @michelleinbklyn and @jbouie.
In my field: @StephenAtHome for delivering his humor from a place of decency, @iamjohnoliver for trusting the audience to be as smart as he is, @sarahcpr for simply seeing the absurd right in front of us, @RandyRainbow for SINGING, and @petridishes, the best satirist in America.
There are lots more, people whose work I appreciated at the time but, being old, can& #39;t remember right now, and hundreds and hundreds of local reporters who don& #39;t often get any credit but whose work remains essential. Thanks to everybody who got up every day and told the truth.
I& #39;ve already starting thinking of people I should have included, and will drop them in from time to time: first up, @ddale8, who went from Canadian foreign correspondent to superstar simply because he had the sense to call a lie a lie.
Another! Proud to say I was a early adopter of @jonathanvswan. Back when people were still making fun of @axios for the whole "Smart brevity!" thing, I noticed he was getting scoop after scoop, and they all proved true.
People are responding with their nominees which is great. Please continue.
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