If someone is among the few select people that the POTUS consults in the hours during which a crucial, urgent decision is made, I would say that person has more power than most people on Earth. Biden certainly didn't call me and ask my opinion. Hence, I consider the notion bizarre that Newsom had little or no power in this case. We obviously have very different perceptions of the situation.

I'm still unclear about what you think the news media ought to be doing. I get the feeling from several comments on this submission that the media should have just censored stories and facts that are potentially embarrassing to the Governor?

Or let me put it another way: if this is no big deal, a nothing burger as it were, then why do you object to the publication of the article? Not every story needs to be Watergate.