Acosta and MTG have heated exchange outside Capitol

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Can somebody please explain to me why in recent years, more and more first-term members of Congress are getting so much attention in the press? It happened 2-3 years ago with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and now it's happening with MTG, Boebert, and Cawthorn. First-termers should be quietly casting votes and angling to get on a prestigious committee (Appropriations, Energy & Commerce, Rules, or Ways & Means), but the press should be ignoring the freshmen and focusing their attention on members of Congress who have more seniority.

Just my beef du jour.

Because they are very active on social media and are going out of their way to get into the news.

You don't hear about Sara Jacobs or Cliff Bentz or Victoria Lange because they just do their job quietly. (Case in point - 2 of those 3 people are real freshman members of congress, 1 is made-up. Can you tell which it is?)

Maybe it's just because I'm a nerd about politics, but it's Lange who's fictional. I was skepitcal there was a Victoria Lange in Congress even before I read the bolded section of your post (though there is a Ukranian-American first-term Republican, Victoria Spartz, from IN05 north of Indianpolis), but I do know of Sara Jacobs (D-CA) and Cliff Bentz (R-OR02).

[Schiff for Senate]

Can somebody please explain to me why in recent years, more and more first-term members of Congress are getting so much attention in the press? It happened 2-3 years ago with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and now it's happening with MTG, Boebert, and Cawthorn. First-termers should be quietly casting votes and angling to get on a prestigious committee (Appropriations, Energy & Commerce, Rules, or Ways & Means), but the press should be ignoring the freshmen and focusing their attention on members of Congress who have more seniority.

Just my beef du jour.

That's how it should be, yes, that's how it used to be and that's how it still is most of the time. However, certain newer members of Congress - Cawthorn, MTG, and Omar and Tlaib when they were in their first term - crave attention and, to use Washingtonian lexicon, are more interested in being showhorses than workhorses. Especially Cawthorn - he's a clown who's spet a lot less time legislating than he in the news for saying and doing dumb and dangerous things. And when he is actually in Congress, he can't resist attention-seeking behaviour:

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Acosta is extremely punchable, but so is she.

Say this about a Democrat/liberal and the red avatars would be all over you for "EnDoRsInG vIoLeNcE aGaInsT wOmEn". Not that I disagree (by the way, Jimmy Kimmel also agrees with you).

Can somebody please explain to me why in recent years, more and more first-term members of Congress are getting so much attention in the press? It happened 2-3 years ago with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and now it's happening with MTG, Boebert, and Cawthorn. First-termers should be quietly casting votes and angling to get on a prestigious committee (Appropriations, Energy & Commerce, Rules, or Ways & Means), but the press should be ignoring the freshmen and focusing their attention on members of Congress who have more seniority.

Just my beef du jour.

That's how it should be, yes, that's how it used to be and that's how it still is most of the time. However, certain newer members of Congress - Cawthorn, MTG, and Omar and Tlaib when they were in their first term - crave attention and, to use Washingtonian lexicon, are more interested in being showhorses than workhorses. Especially Cawthorn - he's a clown who's spet a lot less time legislating than he in the news for saying and doing dumb and dangerous things. And when he is actually in Congress, he can't resist attention-seeking behaviour:

Yes, I can readily understand why they SEEK attention, but my question is why do the media GIVE them attention? Reporters can choose who deserves to get attention and who doesn't, and lately the judgment of most reporters seems so questionable.

Can somebody please explain to me why in recent years, more and more first-term members of Congress are getting so much attention in the press? It happened 2-3 years ago with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and now it's happening with MTG, Boebert, and Cawthorn. First-termers should be quietly casting votes and angling to get on a prestigious committee (Appropriations, Energy & Commerce, Rules, or Ways & Means), but the press should be ignoring the freshmen and focusing their attention on members of Congress who have more seniority.
Just my beef du jour.

Because they are very active on social media and are going out of their way to get into the news.

You don't hear about Sara Jacobs or Cliff Bentz or Victoria Lange because they just do their job quietly. (Case in point - 2 of those 3 people are real freshman members of congress, 1 is made-up. Can you tell which it is?)

Maybe it's just because I'm a nerd about politics, but it's Lange who's fictional. I was skepitcal there was a Victoria Lange in Congress even before I read the bolded section of your post (though there is a Ukranian-American first-term Republican, Victoria Spartz, from IN05 north of Indianpolis), but I do know of Sara Jacobs (D-CA) and Cliff Bentz (R-OR02).

Thank you. I didn't feel like joining Ferguson97's enticement to join a Sesame Street game of "Which of these things is not like the other?"

I will be deleting this post later today.

Because it generates more views and it's what people want to hear. Why not give/tell the people what they want to hear and report on stories they're interested in? And in all fairness, I can't blame Americans for being less interested in something obscure in Congress than they are in a member of Congress discussing being invited to an orgy.

That said, journalists really should focus more on government instead of headline-grabbers from attention-seekers and horse race journalism, whether or not it helps with the base.