Axios CEO Flips Out Over Elon Musk’s ‘Bulls**t’ Claim That X Users Are Replacing The Media
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“You having a blue checkmark doesn’t make you a reporter," Jim VandeHei said.
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei got fired up over Elon Musk’s claims that users on Twitter-turned-X are replacing legacy media.
While delivering a fervent speech at the National Press Club last Thursday, VandeHei slammed the tech billionaire for suggesting that social media users who aren’t professional journalists can provide news coverage without formal training.
“Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day — or X today — saying like, ‘We are the media,’ ‘You are the media,’” VandeHei, a former political reporter for The Washington Post and co-founder of Politico, said at the time. “My message to Elon Musk is: Bullshit. You are not the media.”
VandeHei continued, “You having a blue checkmark, a Twitter handle and 300 words of cleverness doesn’t make you a reporter. ... You don’t do that by popping off on Twitter. You don’t do that by having an opinion. You do it by doing the hard work.”
In the clip, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough cosigned VandeHei’s speech, noting it “needed to be said.”
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