Monthly Archives: October 2024

Jeff Bezos’ WaPo, like the LA Times before it and USA Today shortly after, has refused to endorse Kamala Harris for President.  He wrote an op-ed about it here:  The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media

If you haven’t read that yet, it’s worth the time, but take your blood pressure meds first.  As is typical with leftist framing, he says that the problem is perception of bias, rather than bias itself.

We [newspapers — bdb] must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. … Continue reading →

It’s time to take the MSM up on their claims to objectivity.  Accept for argument’s sake that they are all as pure as the driven snow, without a common ideological axe to grind.  You know, just to make the rest of this argument go.  Then look at the questions they ask and the “clarifications” they issue.  Why would a “debate” “moderator” say such a thing?  What is the worldview which would cause an honest journalist to ask such a question, or to emit such a brain-dead reply?

This analysis will show that the honest and hard-working talking heads of the Democratic People’s Republic of TheNews are all thoroughly mal-educated Marxists.  Regardless of whether they are committed or merely caught up in the rush, every single one of them … Continue reading →