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Politico Admits 'Beltway-Media-Industrial Complex' Candidate Favoritism
Newsbusters ^ | March 3, 2023 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 03/03/2023 12:11:21 PM PST by PJ-Comix

We owe a great debt of gratitude to Michael Schaffer.

The senior editor at Politico admitted out loud Friday what most of us already knew. Namely that the media plays favorites with the candidates they cover despite their laughable claims of neutrality. Schaffer's admission of blatant media coverage bias appeared in his piece "Washington’s Favorite Republican Is Making All the Right Moves."

And who is currently "Washington's favorite Republican," you ask? Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan? Nope! Governor Chris Sununu of New Hampshire.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chrissununu; mediabias; politico
Of course, Politico neglects to mention the inevitable downside should any such (currently) favored candidate is ever actually nominated.
1 posted on 03/03/2023 12:11:21 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

That was like the John McCain presidential candidacy.

The mass media pumped him in the primaries and dumped him in the general election.

Stevie Wonder coulda seen that one coming...but the clowns on his staff (the “experts) were shocked, shocked!


2 posted on 03/03/2023 12:14:48 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: PJ-Comix

/HURL!


3 posted on 03/03/2023 3:12:43 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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