dylan-byers
Tom Scocca · 01/08/14 04:14PM
The "towering figures" of American public intellectualism are "all white men," the Politico's Dylan Byers explains, in an attempt to dig out of the mess he made by dismissing the notion of Melissa Harris-Perry as a top public intellectual. And writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates, who diagnosed racism in the episode, are "lazy."
Why Is the Press Conspiring to Silence American Hero Ted Cruz?
Tom Scocca · 09/25/13 11:54AMThe talkathon by Senator Ted Cruz is almost certainly the most newsworthy speech that's been given by a member of the Senate on the Senate floor today or yesterday. Yet some of the response to it from the news media has been dismissive. Dylan Byers, the dumbest reporter alive, dedicated an item in The Politico to trying to think about what it all means (it means: "Media Bias").
J.K. Trotter · 08/14/13 12:39PM
World's Grossest Reporter Pats Himself on the Back for a Job Well Done
Tom Scocca · 07/31/13 12:35PM'Surprising' New Facts About Roger Ailes Were Published Two Years Ago
Hamilton Nolan · 06/05/13 04:33PMBloomberg View columnist and longtime Newsweek man Jonathan Alter has a new book coming out that includes details about jowly shithead Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News. Politico's media reporter Dylan Byers writes that excerpts from the book show that Alter "reveals a number of surprising facts about the Fox News chief that, taken together, make him out to appear extraordinarily paranoid." Yes, Roger Ailes is paranoid. But Alter didn't "reveal" anything new at all.
Mansplainer, For Men: Why Don't Women Like It When You Tell Them They're Hot, In Public?
Tom Scocca · 04/05/13 04:50PMDylan Byers, the dumbest media-news reporter in the business, has been thinking a lot during the past 24 hours about the difficulties of being a man. The Politico, America's worst media outlet and Byers' employer, reported yesterday afternoon that President Obama had called California attorney general Kamala Harris "the best-looking attorney general in the country" at a fundraiser. Even as The Politico started and amplified a fuss over the president's remarks, according to its usual mechanical fuss-making protocol, Byers wondered what the fuss was about: