Joe Biden: Editor In Chief
You really and truly must be living under a rock, or on another planet, not to know that the mainstream media is literally, unbelievably biased. It’s no secret that most mainstream journalists are liberals. While we just kind of accept it anymore, it is so not what journalism is supposed to be. It is not your job as a journalist to tell people what to think, or to “change the world.” Your job duties are, you provide the facts of the story, and then you send that story off into the wilderness so that people can make up their minds as to what they think about it. Unless you are writing an opinion piece where you offer up what you think about something, in which case fire away. Last time I checked, at least for now, Americans still enjoy freedom of speech, sort of. There was a time when the state-run media in places like Russia or North Korea were frowned upon and not taken very seriously. We no longer have that option.
New reports are surfacing that the Biden administration has had ongoing meetings with corporate media reporters, and editors. In these meetings, the administration has been criticizing the media for their coverage of former President Donald Trump. Seems that the Biden people don’t think that their media cohorts are attacking Trump enough to take scrutiny off Joe Biden and his disastrous record. They are being told to lay off covering Trump’s legal woes. The reason is twofold. Once again, to turn attention away from Biden, and two, too much coverage of Trump could make him a sympathetic figure and might help him. But don’t be mistaken, the Biden people want Trump coverage, but they want more coverage of what they call his “incendiary statements.”
You might say at this point that this is nothing new. Conservatives have known practically since the invention of the printing press that the media was liberal. What seems to be the new twist, is how organized it is. The Biden campaign is clearly terrified. And who can blame them? Joe Biden’s poll numbers remain in the tank, and chances are they won’t get any better because Joe Biden is not making any course corrections on anything any time soon. With that terror in mind, it appears they have put some serious overtime in on this one. The Biden campaign created a “spreadsheet” of various topics and issues, where they feel that the media has “fallen short” in their coverage of Biden. A reported meeting with reporters and editors from the New York Times did not go well, although it is not known why. Are the Biden people implying that the New York Times is not fluffy enough with Biden? Hard to believe. A similar meeting with the Washington Post was said to be “substantive” and “productive.” Another implication that the softball pitchers at the Washington Post are too rough? It is a bit disturbing to think about what might have made those meetings substantive and productive. Meetings with ABC News, NPR, Bloomberg, and Reuters are scheduled, no surprise there. But what is unsettling, is that there are also meetings scheduled with The Wall Street Journal and Fox News.
This seems to be the official Biden campaign strategy. Just call Donald Trump Hitler a bunch of times, and Joe Biden will win reelection. Ammar Moussa is a Biden campaign spokesman, and all but confirmed the strategy saying, “The more the American people are confronted with who Donald Trump is – a dangerous, extreme, and erratic man who only cares about using the power of the government to help himself and his friends – the more they reject him.” It shouldn’t come as a surprise. Joe Biden cannot run on his record. This is all they have.
Sadly, the other unsurprising thing is the reporters and editors, the people who call themselves journalists, who, when summoned by the Biden campaign to show up at the campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, dutifully packed up and caught the next plane, train, or automobile. Contrary to popular belief, journalists are people too. They have views and opinions like everyone else. The problem comes in when you don’t put those views and opinions aside, and report honestly what you see, hear, and uncover on your own, whether you like it or not, and whether you agree with it or not. Are the journalists who are more than willing to toss their honesty and integrity out the car window like a fast-food wrapper the norm and not the exception anymore? A politician’s campaign summons you to campaign headquarters to tell you how to do your job and because you like that guy so much and hate the other guy equally as much, all you do is ask what time to be there and if should you bring a bottle of wine?
It was Sean Hannity who began saying way back in 2007 that “journalism is dead.” It seems that most Americans agree. A recent Gallup poll shows that only 32 percent trust the mainstream media “a great deal” or “a fair amount.” 50 percent say the mainstream media intends to “mislead, misinform, and persuade the public.” Just 35 percent said most news outlets are reliable. Those numbers may be even lower than that. But if any other business selling a product has numbers like that, they figure out what they can do to improve. Not the media, the media is where they assume the customer is always wrong.
Maybe conservatives should be glad that we now know that everything we have suspected is true and that a bit of vindication is in order. We know to take anything those outlets report as just an update from the Biden campaign. Honesty and journalistic integrity are a lot like reputations, where do you go to get them back?