{"id":1655269,"date":"2022-09-23T13:49:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T17:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1655269"},"modified":"2022-09-23T13:51:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T17:51:02","slug":"puck-journalist-is-bad-writer-critics-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/puck-journalist-is-bad-writer-critics-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Puck Journalist Is Bad Writer, Critics Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpuck-journalist-is-bad-writer-critics-claim%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1655269&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Media elites seize on Dylan Byers&#8217;s disparaging remarks about Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 September 23, 2022 1:40 pm  <\/p>\n<p><em>Puck<\/em> journalist Dylan Byers is a &#8220;hacky&#8221; and &#8220;lazy&#8221; writer whose &#8220;terrible&#8221; and &#8220;navel-gazing&#8221; prose resembles that of a &#8220;<em>West Wing<\/em>-addicted nerd&#8221; &#8220;trying to write like Tom Wolfe.&#8221; So say his critics, who blasted the bearded journo for his unflattering description of our nation&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Byers, who currently resides in Gavin Newsom&#8217;s California and writes a media gossip newsletter, wrote:<\/p>\n<p>One of the enduring charms of Washington D.C., where I lived from 2011 to 2014, and where I found myself this week, is the way its drab streets, dimly-lit bars and earnest Brooks Brothers-attired political-media class immediately envelop you in their cozy myopia. Here, in the shadow of monuments appealing to a broader view of history and the world, is a town where insularity and incrementalism reign\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The assessment was accurate enough to aggrieve members of the political-media class. Many were compelled to publicly denounce Byers for daring to disparage a city that leads the world in lawyers per capita and serves &#8220;Moscow Muellers&#8221; at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2019\/07\/23\/where-to-drink-while-watching-the-robert-mueller-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch parties<\/a> for congressional hearings that start at 8:30 a.m. Current and former residents of Washington, D.C.\u2014mostly white journalists\u2014were particularly eager to announce themselves as seasoned purveyors of real D.C. culture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can we not with the hacky AF descriptions of DC?&#8221; wrote Jordan Weissmann, writer and editor at <em>Slate<\/em>. &#8220;I bought my blazer at Suit Supply, like every other thirtysomething asshole in this city, thank you very much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also, it is terrible writing,&#8221; observed <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist Jamelle Bouie, to which the<em> Intercept<\/em>\u2018s D.C. bureau chief, Ryan Grim, added: &#8220;It is enveloped in terribleness.&#8221; Former <em>BuzzFeed<\/em> editor John Stanton quipped: &#8220;Oh weird Dylan Byers goes to Chocolate City and can only see the boring white transplants like him. I guess all that navel gazing in California didn&#8217;t make him a better writer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CNN political analyst Jackie Kucinich, daughter of former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio), snarked that she will &#8220;never tire of guys trying to write like Tom Wolfe, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puck journalist Dylan Byers is a &#8220;hacky&#8221; and &#8220;lazy&#8221; writer whose &#8220;terrible&#8221; and &#8220;navel-gazing&#8221; prose resembles that of a &#8220;West Wing-addicted nerd&#8221; &#8220;trying to write like Tom Wolfe.&#8221; So say his critics, who blasted the bearded journo for his unflattering description of our nation&#8217;s capital. Byers, who currently resides in Gavin Newsom&#8217;s California and writes [\u2026]<br \/>\nThe post Puck Journalist Is Bad Writer, Critics Claim appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}