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Last week we saw the media complex of this country brazenly shrug off any last vestige of its claim to impartiality or unbiased reporting. A series of stories came out causing the press to react in a way that showed clearly just how partisan and one-sided they have become. We see a journalism complex that no longer even pretends.
We’ll cover three stories that explode the rampant bias on display. First, the McDonald’s visit by Trump was still percolating, even as Brian Stelter claimed only the Right was making it a story. This led me to commit journalism – I actually RESEARCHED it and found dozens of reports, in numerous categories, from various outlets covering the fast food visit…after Brian’s declaration.
Then there was the disastrous story from The Atlantic about Trump refusing to cover funeral costs for a fallen soldier. This garbage was refuted by many - on the record - saying Jeffrey Goldberg’s piece was entirely false, yet the press collectively ran with his anonymously sourced tripe. The worst was Jake Tapper - supposed supporter of the troops and the families of the fallen – who invited the writer on his show and allowed Goldberg to further insult the Gold Star family that was debunking him, because harming Trump is far more important than being decent humans.
Finally, there was the other October Surprise that Trump was again accused of groping a woman, courtesy of Jeffrey Epstein. That this was to have taken place over 30 years ago is just the start of the problems, but the rather incurious press saw no need to pick apart the problems with this story – no, better to bring the woman on and tell her story, unchallenged.
Now, crack one open and savor some mainstream media malpractice and misinformation.
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The New York Times was content that the Harris Campaign says she “did fries” at McD’s.
Jake Tapper shamelessly allowed Jeffrey Goldberg to insult a Gold Star family.
John Kelly is back in the news, again trashing Trump - but the reporters feel as if this was a BREAKING story…despite him doing this since 2020.
The latest, lamest October Surprise arrived via The Guardian, and CNN had on the “victim” for an in-depth interview.
Here’s a thread laying out for Brian Stelter the media obsession over Trump’s drive-thru visit that he denied was taking place.
On Tuesday CNN media guru @BrianStelter said THE RIGHT was making Trump's McDonald's publicity stunt a 3-day event, wrong to say the left was obsessed.
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) October 24, 2024
Let's have some fun and commit journalism to explore where the obsession is found.
(We'll Super-Size the irony at the end)
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