It’s impossible to throw a rock into a room full of mainstream journalists and not hit a raging hypocrite, and Tim Alberta is no exception. As a staff writer at The Atlantic, one of the most ridiculous left-wing outlets in the world, Alberta has come a long way since his days at National Review. This was evident on Saturday after he launched an attack on Town Hall editor Katie Pavlich.
On Friday, Pavlich shared an anecdote about the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. In it she described what she had heard from a friend in the area.
A friend from North Carolina with many friends in the disaster areas describes things this way: “Pure abandonment.”
She says people will receive “no support” from the government for a week, there is no urgency and that private citizens trying to deliver aid will be turned away.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) October 4, 2024
There were a number of reports from the flood-stricken areas around Asheville expressing similar sentiments. It’s not exactly unbelievable or crazy to suggest this to a lot of people Do Feel let down and disappointed by an inconsistent federal response. Surely it’s far crazier to claim that everyone is “consistently very happy,” which is what President Joe Biden did on Friday.
SEE: Joe Biden’s response to Hurricane Helene sparks outrage and concern
Regardless, Pavlich’s post sparked Alberta, which immediately mocked her journalism and criticized her for using an anonymous source to report on the hurricane’s impact.
Ah yes. Source: Source: An unspecified person who knows many unspecified people living in unspecified locations.
Rock solid. Definitely meets the standard for publishing such comprehensive and empirically disputed claims. (Don’t worry: her bio says “journalist.”) https://t.co/qqafQFjvpb
— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) October 5, 2024
All you can do is roll your eyes. Alberta works for a media outlet that has produced dozens of hit articles targeting Republicans using anonymous sources. One of the most infamous was an article that claimed Donald Trump had called dead American military personnel “suckers and losers.” That was a sourced anonymously Piece, by the way. Ultimately, this was officially disputed by dozens of people, but was repeated again and again throughout the 2024 presidential election.
So it’s a bit of a stretch for Alberta to call out Pavlich for using anonymous sources, something The Atlantic has done many times. Also, why is he so upset about her post? Does it really mean that no one locally feels abandoned and desperate? Is that where he wants to go?
Of course, as the saying goes, there’s always a tweet. Guess what Alberta did in 2017 when Hurricane Harvey hit Houston? You guessed it. He used a single, anonymous source to report the devastation.
You absolutely weird hacker. https://t.co/7qkSF24IwR pic.twitter.com/l2stFLWPzU
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 5, 2024
At the time, Alberta probably hoped that the damage caused by Harvey was “ten times” worse than that of Hurricane Katrina. That would have been great for his politics, considering Trump was president. In the end, that didn’t come true (at least not in terms of the death toll and the extent of the damage). Funny how Pavlich can’t utilize a friend’s word to report on a hurricane, but Alberta can, right? At least their reporting appears to be largely precise.
Alberta and so many in the mainstream press are jokes. They truly believe that they exist on a higher plane, even though they are nothing more than biased hackers posing as professionals.
