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If The Media Were Serious About Eradicating A ‘Perception Of Bias,’ They’d Fire Most Of Their Staff
https://thefederalist.com/ ^ | 11/4/2024 | Casey Chalk

Posted on 11/04/2024 7:49:33 AM PST by bitt

The decision to not endorse Kamala Harris is more than just too little, too late. These newspapers are disingenuous and patently unserious.

Liberals are incensed over the decision by the editorial boards of The Washington Post, The L.A. Times, and USA Today to not endorse Kamala Harris for president. The decisions have provoked endless reporting and commentary across the media, while editorial board members have resigned and hundreds of thousands of readers have canceled their subscriptions.

Defending the decision, Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, noted in an Oct. 28 op-ed that this year Gallup found that the journalistic profession “is now the least trusted of all.” Presidential endorsements, Bezos argues, “do nothing to tip the scales of an election” but rather “create a perception of bias.” Refraining from endorsing a presidential candidate is thus “a meaningful step in the right direction” to restore the integrity of corporate media in the eyes of the American media.

Yet for a profession with such a tarnished reputation, obvious bias, and even, dare I say, descent into corruption to ensure certain political outcomes, these decisions are more than just too little, too late. They are disingenuous and patently unserious. For corporate media to get serious about journalistic professionalism, they’d have to fire more than half their staff.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: media; perceptionofbias

1 posted on 11/04/2024 7:49:33 AM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 11/04/2024 7:49:47 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

The media doesn’t care. They are biased, they know they are biased, they know we know they are biased, and they just don’t care.


3 posted on 11/04/2024 7:51:45 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: bitt

SIMPLE.

DONT WATCH OR READ THE FAKE NEWS TV OR PRINT MEDIA.

IF YOU DONT WATCH OR READ THEY WILL GO OUT OF BUSINESS.


4 posted on 11/04/2024 7:52:48 AM PST by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock-)
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To: bitt
The bias is deeply entrenched and goes back a long way - I remember watching tv during the 1994 "red wave" congressional elections, and one of the network anchors (Rather??) said on a live mic: "I can't believe we're losing!"
5 posted on 11/04/2024 7:56:37 AM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: bitt

This is the end for the media.

No amount of censorship will save them.


6 posted on 11/04/2024 8:00:51 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: bitt
Please, don't fire the staff. They're aiding in its destruction (the quicker the better) and I have no problem with that.

Their "bread and butter" reporting has become their financial ruin.

7 posted on 11/04/2024 8:05:02 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: bitt

They are biased.
They want to be biased.
They just don’t want you to be able to perceive their bias.
They want to eliminate that perception of bias.


8 posted on 11/04/2024 8:10:56 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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The obliteration of the Deep State includes the obliteration of their Super PAC propaganda media.

Can’t wait


9 posted on 11/04/2024 8:17:15 AM PST by delchiante
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To: bitt

Clarification: They are not against bias, they are against perception.


10 posted on 11/04/2024 8:23:33 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: bitt

Clarification: They are not against bias, they are against perception.


11 posted on 11/04/2024 8:23:34 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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Most of the media want to be mouthpieces for the Democratic party, and are doing a good job pushing Dem propaganda. Why would they fire anyone?


12 posted on 11/04/2024 8:27:29 AM PST by Roadrunner383
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To: bitt

Staff is just a symptom

It’s top down usually

Look at Larry Fink promoting DEI

David Zaslav at Warner over CNN

The Shulzbergers at NYT

And so on and on

It’s how these folks think

News and entertainment they push their vision on those under them top down

Reed Hastings at Netflix

They think nothing of insisting on gay storylines or emphasized women roles

Ask Taylor Sheridan

I personally was a party (as a tagalong)to a Nickelodeon meet where the pitch went well till they insisting on a gay angle


13 posted on 11/04/2024 8:32:06 AM PST by wardaddy
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To: bitt

For corporate media to get serious about journalistic professionalism, they’d have to fire more than half their staff.

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Back in the day, Bezo’s had an all time brilliant idea (Amazon Online buying/delivery) that changed the world and was able to double down with some amazing management and sustainment skills.

But, he’s dumb as a post politically and should sell his interest in WAPO. I remember Newsweek selling for one dollar.


14 posted on 11/04/2024 8:54:43 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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I am hoping MUSK buys the NYT & the WaPo for $1 each & closes them down.


15 posted on 11/04/2024 9:01:48 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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BTTT


16 posted on 11/04/2024 9:36:35 AM PST by nopardons
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To: bitt
Though we’ve certainly surpassed the need to cite examples, I’ll name a few. Corporate media have openly decided to report favorably on, among other things, abortion, transgender activists, and illegal immigration.

Their “straight news” routinely attacks conservative Christians while celebrating leftist ideologues, with the goal of opening the Overton Window in favor of the most extreme leftist causes, such as its promotion of gay marriage and then trans identity.

And they refuse to take seriously widespread concerns with election integrity, despite years of evidence-based reporting from such journalists as Mollie Hemingway, and Mark Zuckerberg publicly acknowledging social media yielding to Democrat pressure. Anything that might threaten the credential class’s hold on power is flippantly labeled “disinformation.”

"Disinformation' is newspeak for 'opinions of people who disagree with 'elties'...

17 posted on 11/04/2024 9:47:09 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrat fraud: They vote the people who don't show up to vote. Everything else is red herring...)
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To: bitt

Dittos on headline.


18 posted on 11/05/2024 1:12:06 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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