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The liberal media’s gushing over Kamala Harris is an embarrassment to journalism
Yahoo ^ | 27 Aug 2024 | Michael Deacon

Posted on 08/27/2024 11:37:33 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Donald Trump and his allies are missing the point. Yes, of course liberal media outlets in the US are biased towards Kamala Harris. They’re always biased towards the Democrats’ candidate. Nothing new there.

What makes their behaviour right now so remarkable is not that they’re being partisan. It’s that they’re willing to be partisan even though the object of their adulation has been giving them absolutely nothing in return. They’re cheerleading for someone who won’t even speak to them.

It’s now over a month since Joe Biden announced that he was making way. Yet, at the time of writing, Ms Harris has still to hold a single press conference. She has also still to do a single formal interview. Journalists are long used to politicians dodging their questions. But at least they normally get to ask them.

If a Republican candidate followed such an approach, these liberal media outlets would – quite rightly – be scandalised. They would bellow: “Why are the GOP evading press scrutiny in this shameless manner? Do they think their candidate is too gormless and inept to cope with a simple interview? Are they tacitly admitting that their candidate’s record is so poor, they’re incapable of defending it? Or are they just arrogant? Do they think they’re above answering questions about their policies – if, indeed, they have any policies?”

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KEYWORDS: media; mediabias; msm
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To: Rummyfan

Zero journalistic credibility.


21 posted on 08/27/2024 1:01:28 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand (Mp)
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To: Rummyfan

The Mockingbird Media ceased to be journalists 4 decades ago.

And that’s a conservative estimate.


22 posted on 08/27/2024 1:16:31 PM PDT by TigersEye (His son nicknamed him Pedo Pete. (mic drop))
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To: Rummyfan
From NYS...

New York just committed $90 million to help save local journalism. Will it work?

Deep State is getting our money's worth, isn't it.

Presstitution pays.

23 posted on 08/27/2024 1:22:22 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla
The link above is from this year.

The link below is from last year...

$48 Million in Support of Local News, Initial Seeding of Press Forward Collaborative

24 posted on 08/27/2024 1:24:00 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla
Also from 2023...

Meet The States Using Public Funding to Support Local Journalism In the face of federal inaction, state-level experiments to fund community-based outlets are expanding

25 posted on 08/27/2024 1:25:12 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: From The Deer Stand

We wonder how the democrats send out a candidate who has nothing to vote for and democrats vote for them anyway. Remember the guy who hid in his basement and almost never came out but he won anyway? How does that happen?


26 posted on 08/27/2024 1:26:50 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Rummyfan

a watchdog press is necessary for a free society

our watchdog press has abdicated their position as a free press

they are lapdogs for the democrats

and attack dogs for the republicans

the current media needs more competition

the best way to create opportunities for more competition

is by creative destruction

cut the cable tv

force cable companies to offer a la carte programming

so they cannot force cable subscribers to fund leftist media channels


27 posted on 08/27/2024 1:33:39 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: TigersEye

walter duranty nyt propagandist for stalin

was in 30s 40s?


28 posted on 08/27/2024 1:35:39 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Rummyfan
What makes their behaviour right now so remarkable is not that they’re being partisan. It’s that they’re willing to be partisan even though the object of their adulation has been giving them absolutely nothing in return. They’re cheerleading for someone who won’t even speak to them.

I was democrat for many years - and the funny thing is democrats have almost zero respect for the press. It's like the A students in a college usually have less respect for their professors than the C students.

Why?

Because the professors play to them - they want the smart students and the smart students are often smarter than these needy teachers. Especially now when many of today's 'professors' would have been working in a five and dime selling shoes decades ago.. It's the same with the press. Gone are the giants and the respect they commanded and in are the toadies who kiss democrat butt and sell out even before being asked.

29 posted on 08/27/2024 2:47:59 PM PDT by GOPJ (Kamala kisses up and punches down - cgbg * Walz put tampon dispensers in boys bathrooms...)
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To: Rummyfan

There are no more liberal media outlets. Only Marxist media outlets.


30 posted on 08/27/2024 3:09:09 PM PDT by Boomer (The dems and rinos (rat crap) have pegged the evil needle so hard, Satan now answers to them.)
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To: Rummyfan

They would have to have a sense of shame in the first place in order to feel embarrassed.


31 posted on 08/27/2024 3:30:54 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

First thing I thought of too….


32 posted on 08/27/2024 4:39:32 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Williams

She may talk like an idiot, and cackle like an idiot, but she really is an idiot.


33 posted on 08/27/2024 5:52:54 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Rummyfan

The media has Stockhom Syndrome.


34 posted on 08/27/2024 7:29:03 PM PDT by randita
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To: Rummyfan

Polls must be showing that her little game is starting to backfire.


35 posted on 08/27/2024 7:30:52 PM PDT by randita
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