Why the Press Loves to Hate Twitter – POLITICO

If you accept the fact that the press corps is conflicted over Twitter, then you should have no trouble accepting that no matter what Elon Musk might do with the site, the press would be bawling about it because that’s the nature of its relationship with it. It’s no defense of Musk to assert that no matter what he does or doesn’t do with Twitter, he’ll be keelhauled for it. For example, if Musk had purchased Twitter and did nothing but kept the lights on, the complaint would have been, “Musk is letting the site atrophy.” “Where are the new features?” “He’s an absentee owner!” “Why did he even bother buying it?” Even if he had limited his changes to remodeling a few features and tossing new coats of paint on the hallways, traditionalists would have called for the department of historical preservation cops to arrest him. Twitter users by their nature tend toward conservatism. They want things to remain the same so they can recycle their complaints more effectively. But as we’ve seen, Musk’s big moves at the company have brought out the boo-birds, too. Musk has been condemned for charging for Twitter Blue, for restoring the accounts of
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