Shocker: Liberal Media Coddles Joe and Kamala, Divides Americans

Townhall.com ^ | March 4, 2021 | Chad Banghart

[Kaslin]

What is the current state of the left-leaning mainstream media? Crisis, unprecedented crisis.

Exit President Trump—a daily scapegoat for Beltway elites—and media ratings predictably plummet. CNN’s primetime viewership fell by more than 40 percent in the Biden presidency’s first weeks.

But the Trump phenomenon only explains the media woes in part. After years of creating anti-Trump news cycles and stirring up faux-controversies to undermine the “America First” agenda, the liberal media has run into a trust issue. Faced with blatant bias in reporting, more Americans than ever before are tuning out from traditional news and seeking alternative sources of information.

Disillusionment can be found on both sides of the political aisle. According to a new Edelman report, only 46 percent of Americans trust the traditional media—down from 59 percent in 2019. Media bias is a key factor in America’s distrust: Nearly 60 percent of Americans believe that journalists are “purposely trying to mislead people,” with most news outlets seen as more concerned with “supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public.”

Among Republicans, only 18 percent trust journalists to report fairly and objectively. That’s right: 18 percent.

Can you blame them? Since Inauguration Day, left-leaning news outlets have repeatedly treated the Biden administration with kid gloves. Just a few short weeks ago, Americans were fed dozens of hard-hitting headlines about President Biden playing Mario Kart at Camp David. Before that, Americans were given feature stories about the Bidens’ two dogs, now living in the White House. Also breaking news: The dogs reportedly enjoy snow days. Their owner seems to enjoy them too, as he has repeatedly postponed key meetings due to minor weather events. Two inches of snow is now apparently too dangerous for America’s most powerful man.

Then there’s Vice President Kamala Harris, whose “best style moments” are routinely covered by a fawning press. As Town & Country Magazine put it, “Yes, we should talk about Kamala Harris’ fashion—she wants us to.” Even The Guardian chimed in from overseas, claiming “Kamala Harris made wearing pearls cool.”

All of this, in the middle of a global pandemic. Somewhere, First Lady Melania Trump—one of the White House’s classiest and most beautiful residents in recent decades—rolls her eyes.

Liberal media bias also shines through in what isn’t written. After the Wall Street Journal recently discovered that the Iranian government has begun producing uranium metal, in violation of the 2015 Iran deal, there was no media outrage. President Biden, a key backer of the Iran deal, faced no heat. He was not forced to comment in a White House press briefing.

When the Biden administration was revealed to be housing migrant teens in containers, was that immigration policy shoved under the microscope? Was he crucified by the liberal media for mishandling the immigration crisis, accusations that President Trump faced all four years? Of course not.

resident Biden escapes every potential hot seat, as does his scandal-ridden son, Hunter. At the same time, the liberal media is all too eager to accept White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s non-answers on the Cuomo scandal, despite the New York governor’s tragic, unacceptable decision to relocate the COVID-infected elderly into high-risk nursing homes. Thousands of lives were lost, yet activist-journalists care more about Psaki’s celebrity fans.

This matters all the more because Psaki’s boss has exhibited an unprecedented inability or unwillingness to speak with journalists himself (without a teleprompter), shining the spotlight on a press secretary unprepared for the job. Fortunately for Psaki, she has only lobbed softball questions.

As Republicans are urged to “unify” by those who loathe them, the mainstream media continues to divide us. We can never find true unity when journalists openly pick one side over the other, glorifying some Americans and alienating others based on their political persuasions.

Until journalism returns to fairness and objectivity, America will remain divided. And Americans will keep losing trust in the “news” business.

[DoodleDawg]

Shocker: Liberal Media Coddles Joe and Kamala, Divides Americans

Americans were divided long before January 20th.

[Wizdum]

The mainstream national media has become the mainstream National Inquirer.

Where's the batboy cover?

[PGalt]

Joe Coddles Kamel

[PGalt]

lots of Wizdum in your tagline, pardner

[HighSierra5]

How do you like standing in line at the grocery store and having to see Kommiela’s face plastered on women’s magazines with glowing comments? Spit.

[marktwain]

Until journalism returns to fairness and objectivity, America will remain divided. And Americans will keep losing trust in the “news” business.

Not going to happen.

What we really need is a robust media to counter the "Progressive" Media.

The "Progressive" Left is doing everything it can to prevent alternate media.

[Tench_Coxe]

Except I believe it was the National Enquirer that broke the Monica Lewinsky story when other “respectible” outlets spiked it.

[NohSpinZone]

18 percent my ass. It’s low single digits or those are RINOs.

[HYPOCRACY]

46%? Please. How do they square 40% drop in viewers to 46% of believers? These people are morons.

[NohSpinZone]

I thought it was Drudge who broke that story? Was he citing the Enquirer?

[NohSpinZone]

The Edelman “Trust Report” is published annually by a PR firm, which is notoriously a left-wing industry in bed with journos. Shave 20% off that number.

[ETL]

The Harris-Biden call for unity!
Together we will drive the final nails in America's coffin!

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[motor_racer]

The worst thing that ever happened in journalism education was the promotion of the idea that journalists should “make a difference” rather than providing dispassionate reporting and analysis devoid of a point of view.

“Making a difference” makes each so-called journalist approach every story through an agenda, and craft the reporting to promote that agenda.

After that, the only thing necessary to kill real journalism was to instill leftist ideas for them to use to filter everything.

Unfortunately today, the problem exists on the right too, as some feel it is necessary to counter the pervasive leftist propaganda. The result is that neither side is seen as fair or trustworthy. Journalism should never be judged by whether you agree or disagree with it, but only by whether it is true and complete.

[ronnie raygun]

When you dress up a package with nice paper and bows but you put sh## inside

[Tench_Coxe]

Drudge indeed broke it, but the Enquirer picked it up and ran with it. Newsweek had the story initially and spiked it.

[LouAvul]

And, in other news, water continues to be wet.

[marktwain]

The worst thing that ever happened in journalism education was the promotion of the idea that journalists should “make a difference” rather than providing dispassionate reporting and analysis devoid of a point of view.

The idea that journalists would be dispassionate and without a point of view was a relatively short-lived phenomena in American media.

Early newspapers were clearly partisan.

Most media was partisan until the idea of dispassionate reporting became the fashion for a period, mostly after WWII.

By 1965 the media was nearly completely taken over by ideological Progressives.

[GoldenPup]

Shocker: Liberal Media Coddles Joe and Kamala,

Kind of touchy coddling a porcupine and a skunk. 👎😫

[daler]

“Since Inauguration Day, left-leaning news outlets have repeatedly treated the Biden administration with kid gloves. Just a few short weeks ago, Americans were fed dozens of hard-hitting headlines about President Biden playing Mario Kart at Camp David. Before that, Americans were given feature stories about the Bidens’ two dogs, now living in the White House. Also breaking news: The dogs reportedly enjoy snow days. Their owner seems to enjoy them too, as he has repeatedly postponed key meetings due to minor weather events. Two inches of snow is now apparently too dangerous for America’s most powerful man.”

The hell you say...