{"id":2679654,"date":"2026-10-09T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignpolitico-reporter-perfectly-demonstrates-why-republicans-should-never-talk-to-corporate-press\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:27:59","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignpolitico-reporter-perfectly-demonstrates-why-republicans-should-never-talk-to-corporate-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignpolitico-reporter-perfectly-demonstrates-why-republicans-should-never-talk-to-corporate-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico &#8216;Reporter&#8217; Shows Why GOP Shouldn&#8217;t Talk To The Press"},"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\">20<\/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%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignpolitico-reporter-perfectly-demonstrates-why-republicans-should-never-talk-to-corporate-press%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=2679654&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>The article criticizes conservatives for engaging with progressive corporate media outlets like Politico, despite their apparent bias and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-ngos-tap-chinese-industry-to-fill-endowments\/\" title=\"Liberal NGOs tap Chinese industry to fill endowments\">social justice missions<\/a>.It highlights Politico reporter Alice Miranda Ollstein\u2019s upcoming book, titled &#8220;Side Effects: How abortion Bans Impact Everyone\u2019s Health,&#8221; published by The New press, which openly promotes progressive and pro-abortion viewpoints. the author argues that such publishers have a clear ideological stance, making it unlikely they would publish neutral or conservative perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>The piece questions why conservatives continue to interact with media entities they supposedly oppose, citing examples such as Senator John Thune granting an interview to Politico and stories leaked to the outlet by the White House. it suggests that many conservatives seek publicity and access rather than standing on principle, which ultimately undermines their credibility.<\/p>\n<p>The author advocates for conservatives to avoid feeding into the mainstream media \u201cswamp,\u201d emphasizing that engaging with outlets like Politico often results in misrepresentation or omission of their viewpoints. Instead,they should focus on building their own media channels and speaking directly to voters,notably through live platforms like cable TV,were their messages are less likely to be distorted. The overall message is that conservatives should prioritize self-reliant media efforts over reliance on partisan outlets that do not serve their interests.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Would you trust a so-called journalist whose goal is to \u201cfacilitate social justice\u201d? Me neither. So why do so many conservatives still engage with these people?<\/p>\n<p>News that a Politico reporter will soon release a book about abortion prompted this question now, but it\u2019s a tale as old as time in Washington: Conservatives continue to engage with corporate media that despise them.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Leftist Publisher<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Politico released an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2026\/10\/03\/abortion-doctors-politics-roe-dobbs-01105039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">excerpt<\/a> of a forthcoming book by Alice Miranda Ollstein, one of its reporters, over the weekend. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewpress.org\/books\/side-effects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">book\u2019s title<\/a>, <em>Side Effects: How Abortion Bans Impact Everyone\u2019s Health<\/em>, provides a strong suggestion about its tone and contents.<\/p>\n<p>But if the title didn\u2019t provide enough confirmation, consider how the book\u2019s publisher, The New Press, describes itself <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewpress.org\/about-us\/our-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on its website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The New Press amplifies progressive voices for a more inclusive, just, and equitable world. As a nonprofit public-interest publisher, we leverage books, diverse voices, and media engagement to facilitate social change, enrich public discourse, and defend democratic values: <\/p>\n<p>\u2013 A diversity of perspectives ensures a more inclusive set of public conversations on issues of equity, racial justice, political access, and representation. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Our work mainstreams critical perspectives on immigration, racial justice, education, civic engagement, environmental justice, and more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With that kind of information, I don\u2019t need to read the book \u2014 not that I would give someone like Ollstein my money to buy it. Even if Ollstein wanted to write a politically neutral book \u2014 and I doubt someone who previously worked at The Atlantic, La Opinion, and Talking Points Memo would want to \u2014 The New Press would never publish it. Any publisher that <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewpress.org\/about-us\/our-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describes itself<\/a> as \u201ca book publisher with a social justice mission\u201d and \u201ca home for the nation\u2019s leading progressive thinkers, journalists, scholars, political leaders, and activists,\u201d and that wants to \u201cserv[e] as a platform for progressive organizations whose work has national implications,\u201d would never publish anything but a strongly pro-abortion view.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Don\u2019t Engage Corporate Media<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This development raises two obvious questions: First, why does Politico employ a purportedly objective \u201creporter\u201d who affiliates with a social justice publisher? Would Politico allow me to serve as a \u201cjournalist\u201d while writing conservative books such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Case-Against-Single-Payer-System_And\/dp\/1645720020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Case Against Single Payer<\/em><\/a>  in my spare time, as Ollstein did? (As if Politico would hire an actual conservative!) Unfortunately \u2014 but unsurprisingly \u2014 Politico did not respond to multiple requests for comment about whether it believes it has \u201ca social justice mission\u201d (and if so, what that is); if not, why it permitted Ollstein to write for a publisher with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-tell-oversight-board-facebooks-trump-ban-example-of-uneven-standards\/\" title=\"Republicans Tell Oversight Board Face......s Trump Ban Example of Uneven Standards\">clear political bias<\/a>; and whether it could provide any examples of Politico reporters writing for publishers with a clear conservative lean.<\/p>\n<p>Second, why do people who call themselves conservatives talk to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/15\/abortion-opponents-revamp-their-midterms-plans-as-rift-with-trump-widens-00729224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">these types of reporters<\/a> \u2014 let alone these types of media outlets? That problem pervades the conservative ecosystem. This week brought a prime example when Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., granted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/10\/06\/john-thune-interview-midterms-01108222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exclusive interview<\/a> to Politico. Why was that? Were places like Newsmax and Fox News unavailable, or is Thune just too preoccupied with corporate media access and accolades to care about Politico\u2019s apparent \u201csocial justice mission\u201d? <\/p>\n<p>Another example: Less than two weeks after the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/09\/24\/politico-barred-from-white-house-after-court-ruling-restoring-access-01091263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">barred<\/a> Politico, along with CNN and MS NOW, from the White House grounds, the administration leaked a story about the president\u2019s upcoming political travel to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/10\/02\/trump-to-travel-to-at-least-10-states-before-the-midterms-including-traditional-battlegrounds-01105886\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politico<\/a>. Why? Would no other press outlet run this type of story? (I doubt it.) Putting aside the legal question of whether the president can bar reporters from the White House based on their reporting, if President Trump is so outraged by Politico\u2019s coverage, why is a \u201csenior White House official\u201d leaking to the outlet days after the barring?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Don\u2019t Feed the Swampy Press<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Therein lies the problem. Inside-the-Beltway conservatives become so enamored with publicity, so eager for attention, so willing to show off their knowledge and access, and so easily flattered that they continue to engage with corporate media that despise them, their voters, and the principles they stand for.<\/p>\n<p>To the obvious rebuttal \u2014 \u201cIf we don\u2019t talk with the press, they won\u2019t include us in stories\u201d \u2014 comes an equally obvious retort: <em>GOOD!<\/em> I don\u2019t want to give the press a patina of credibility by giving them a quote from a \u201ctoken conservative,\u201d or get down on hands and knees and beg for reporters to run one story about <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/26\/democrats-fix-for-a-5-trillion-medicare-spending-increase-is-the-same-proposals-that-caused-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exploding health care spending<\/a> so it can be swamped by dozens <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/20\/republicans-dont-buy-democrats-lies-about-medicaid-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">talking about supposed program \u201ccuts.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Live media such as cable television provide a possible exception to the above rule. At least a press hit on CNN or MS NOW can give conservatives an opportunity to speak directly to voters unfiltered and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P_Waj9Q6RsI&#038;pp=ygUdamQgdmFuY2UgZG8geW91IGhlYXIgeW91cnNlbGY%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">call the corporate media out<\/a> on their bovine excrement (provided said conservatives have the cojones to do so). But by and large, engaging with print reporters like those at Politico or similar outlets amounts to a fool\u2019s errand; they can easily omit or edit quotes that conflict with their predefined narratives, just like they <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/06\/politico-stealth-edits-error-filled-hit-piece-on-gop-spending-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stealthily rewrite articles<\/a> to avoid admitting their own errors.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, too many Republicans in Washington become too fixated on the approval of the D.C. swamp to realize this truism. Most politicians run for office because they want to be liked, so it\u2019s probably not in their nature to tell reporters to pound sand. But conservatives should spend less time ingratiating themselves with a press focused on its \u201csocial justice mission\u201d and trying to get Democrats elected, and more time contributing to a media ecosystem of their own.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Chris Jacobs is founder and CEO of Juniper Research Group and author of the book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1645720020\">The Case Against Single Payer<\/a>.&#8221; He is on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisjacobsHC\">@chrisjacobsHC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do conservatives engage with biased media outlets?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":2679655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Trump-Event-Photo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4365,6203,5157,4188,5894],"class_list":["post-2679654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-critics","tag-gop","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Trump-Event-Photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679654","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\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679666,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679654\/revisions\/2679666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2679655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}