I hope it doesn't, because I don't think they'll change. IMO, the trouble is that news has become a profit-driven enterprise and relies on sensationalism and gossip to get attention. A boring educational read is not what most Americans seem to want. And so the media gives us whatever gets us to click on a story (which I admit I've done). I think we have to just train ourselves to read critically and widely.
Incidentally, it does seem that Amy Klobuchar has a high turnover of staff compared to her peers, but I have yet to see a balanced analysis of whether that has hurt her ability to attract and keep effective and talented staff. Maybe it exists, but what I saw were "she reduced me to tears" personal tales of woe, all published around the same time in various liberal-leaning news sources. For all I know after reading a couple, she could just have a low tolerance for fools and a caustic tongue with them.
A couple of viewpoints after US House representative Omar stirred up a hornet's nest with several Twitter comments on the influence of Israel and Jewish lobbies.
From a mainstream news source that's very liberal but also outside the US:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/m ... ntisemitic
The Long Read: Debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitic
All over the world, it is an alarming time to be Jewish – but conflating anti-Zionism with Jew-hatred is a tragic mistake
A viewpoint from a US source. Many articles with a similar perspective have been published in US papers in recent days.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... sm/584251/
Socially Acceptable Anti-Semitism
It is the religion of people too lazy to accept the complexity of reality.
btw, some of the new House representatives are bringing up some interesting issues. For instance, I had no idea that pro-Israel groups sponsor a traditional (free) trip to Israel for new US lawmakers until I heard about the plans for an alternative trip to the occupied territories. The idea that our representatives in Congress are getting a carefully controlled view from one side of this conflict strikes me as wrong and I would like to see that sort of thing end.
This might also be relevant. I have no idea if Ilhan Omar's comments had anything to do with it but it seems possible. There was a recent Senate bill that tried to give states legal cover for punishing any business that supports the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. 26 states have passed anti-BDS bills at the urging of some pro-Israel groups. Opponents say such laws suppress free speech.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... -explained
The bill failed due to a filibuster but more than 70 senators would have voted for it.
That reminds me, this is a story I haven't seen in mainstream US news sources, though it's been covered by the news in Israel. It seems like an appropriate moment to post it:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/american- ... ra-expose/
American pro-Israel lobby girds for Al Jazeera exposé
Jewish leaders reportedly claim Qatar promised to block TV series, but Qatari FM says there will be ‘no interference’ in media issues
American Jewish leaders are bracing themselves for a documentary series made by the Al Jazeera network expected to claim that pro-Israel groups in Washington are helping Israel to identify and discredit US citizens whom they see as anti-Israel, including supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign...“The documentary will investigate how such groups secure support for Israel in Congress and how they have been drawn into Israel’s covert campaign to defeat BDS, the movement to boycott, divest and impose sanctions on Israel.”
...In recent months, the Qataris have been courting the Donald Trump administration intensively...
Noah Pollack, executive director of the Committee for Israel, a lobbying group, reportedly told Muzin that Qatar’s image would suffer massive damage if the series was aired....
...In a statement quoted by the Washington Examiner, Noah Pollack said, “Let’s not mince words about what this was — a well-funded, professional espionage operation carried out by Qatar on American soil.“Its purpose is to cast American Jews engaged in perfectly normal political activity as secret conspirators with the Israeli government, an old anti-Semitic trope. ...
Last year, the UK’s official media watchdog, Ofcom, rejected a complaint against an earlier Al Jazeera documentary that exposed an Israeli embassy official attempting to influence British lawmakers. Ofcom said the network’s reporting, which led to the resignation of Shai Masot, who was filmed plotting to “take down” British lawmakers seen as unfriendly to Israel, was not anti-Semitic.
Rather, Ofcom concluded, the program was “a serious investigative documentary which explored the actions of the Israeli Embassy and, in particular, its then Senior Political Officer Shai Masot and his links to several political organizations that promote a pro-Israel viewpoint.”
This has also been reported in an editorial by a reporter at the UK newspaper The Independent:
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/al ... 57191.html
Al Jazeera did a hard-hitting investigation into US and Israeli lobbying – so why won't they air it?
As far as I know, the US version of The Lobby has not been released. But it seems to have been leaked to YouTube, if anyone is interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lSjXhMUVKE
I imagine that similar exposes might be done for various other powerful lobbying groups in the U.S.