Check out this tweet from NYT author Peter Baker:

We are beginning to get all of the "DeSantis is even worse than Trump" stories from the media in preparation for 2024.

Trump was bad for calling the media "fake news," but somehow DeSantis is worse than "Literally Hitler" because he's ignoring the press.

The media has this incessant narcissistic need to be the center of attention at all times. Donald Trump's frequent attacks on the corporate news were bad, but at least he was talking about them.

Let's dive into the actual article by Michael Grynbaum:

Assigned to cover the re-election campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Miles Cohen, a young ABC News reporter, found himself stymied. The governor would not grant him an interview. Aides barred him from some campaign events and interrupted his conversations with supporters.

When Mr. Cohen was finally able to ask a question about the governor's handling of Hurricane Ian, Mr. DeSantis shouted him down — "Stop, stop, stop" — and scolded the media for "trying to cast aspersions." The DeSantis campaign then taunted Mr. Cohen on Twitter, prompting a torrent of online vitriol.

This hack reporter tried to politicize Hurricane Ian, so he's the victim because DeSantis didn't allow him to do so?

So on election night, Mr. Cohen decamped to a friendlier environment for the news media: Mar-a-Lago, where former President Donald J. Trump greeted reporters by name. "He came up to us, asked how the sandwiches were and took 20 questions," Mr. Cohen recalled.

Yes, they are literally portraying Trump as nicer than DeSantis, like he's a kindly old meemaw who makes you sammiches.

The gremlins in the corporate press are scared to death of DeSantis because he could very well make them irrelevant.

His success is an ominous sign for the usual rules of engagement between politicians and the press as another nationwide election looms. Presidential candidates typically endure media scrutiny in exchange for the megaphone and influence of mainstream outlets. But in an intensely partisan, choose-your-own-news era, the traditional calculus may have shifted.

"The old way of looking at it is: ‘I have to do every media hit that I possibly can, from as broad a political spectrum as I can, to reach as many people as possible,'" said Nick Iarossi, a longtime DeSantis supporter and a lobbyist in Tallahassee. "The new way of looking at it is: ‘I really don't need to do that anymore. I can control how I want to message to voters through the mediums I choose.'"

Trump attacked the press, but he still believed he had to take the media seriously (largely because Trump loves the attention too).

DeSantis seems to have discovered that you can just ignore the corporate press and cruise to victory.

The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media are freaking out at the prospect that they may no longer be the information gatekeepers.

You just LOVE to see it.

This sentence is the icing on the cake: