Trump Had One Last Story to Sell. The Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Buy It. (Published 2020)
Inside the White House’s secret, last-ditch effort to change the narrative, and the election — and the return of the media gatekeepers.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/business/media/hunter-biden-wall-street-journal-trump.html
But the last two weeks have proved the opposite: that the old gatekeepers, like The Journal, can still control the agenda. It turns out there is a big difference between WikiLeaks and establishment media coverage of WikiLeaks, a difference between a Trump tweet and an article about it, even between an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal suggesting Joe Biden had done bad things, and a news article that didn’t reach that conclusion.