My wife is friends with a few supposed journalists at various high-end NYC media cos.
What I think is important to understand is the intense amount of social fear they feel constantly, how they all monitor each other for signs of disloyalty or of heresy against the current approved narratives—it really is akin to living under the Stasi or in some other high-pressure witch-hunting environment.
The First Commandment of a member of the modern liberal media class is: Thou Shalt Not do or say a single thing that could conceivably help Trump or the Republicans, and this was more like an electrified third rail in the past two years when it seemed that a Biden v Trump rematch was inevitable.
And it doesn't matter if this is bad for the media properties in question, because obeying the First Commandment is essential to the survival of your professional and social life. It's better to remain a loyal foot soldier and official Insider in a dying outlet (you can always find another job) than to step out of line and find your entire career and social network gone forever.
The members of our MSM and our liberal class in general—esp also in culture and academia—have locked themselves inside some kind of social and psychological panopticon where everyone is watching and monitoring each other for ideological missteps and where justice is swift and cruel. If it's any consolation for all the propaganda sewage they pump into our social discourse, this is obviously a pretty miserable way to live.
But, miserable or not, I don't think this will change as long as the Orange Man roams the land.
Biden's decline was obvious in 2020, but had probably started years before. Obama knew of Biden's mental state before he called the #2, 3, and 4, Democrat Primary contenders asking them to drop out of the race so he could put Joe Biden, the #5 candidate (who had never won a single Primary in the 2020 season) as the Democrat presidential nominee. Obama knew that Biden had mentally checked out years before, but promoted him anyway. Why?
The biggest scandal in the history of American politics! People who were not elected ran the country for the last four years! That’s not what Americans voted for ! People need to go to jail !! Period !
The first step to recovery from alcohol and drug abuse is for the individual to admit that he has a problem. Despite the massive decline of the legacy MSM’s credibility and business fortunes last year, they are nowhere near admitting that they have a problem so they will continue to decline. Intelligent citizens will have to become their own reporters, carefully studying primary sources of information and curating independent media (like this Substack) in order to be informed. My assumption given the evidence so far is that the MSM’s addiction to being a propaganda outlet for the left is a case of incurable terminal illness.
What is want to know is how that June 27th debate came about. Who set it up and why? The media haven't been interested in that topic in the slightest, which is pretty odd considering it changed the course of history.
Unfortunately, given the corporate media's performance on Russian collusion, the Hunter Biden laptop, the pandemic, and countless other news stories, none of this is a surprise. The only good news is that this is accelerating their own irrelevance as more and more people wake up to their gaslighting attempts and start turning to other sources of news.
Anyone who thinks this story is over hasn’t been paying attention to the new Trump. Once his cabinet is in place, expect an investigation into whether or not Biden was cognitively impaired that will challenge the validity of his pardons. The release of the audio from the Hur report, and testimony regarding why he remained in office after he was removed from the race.
"That their efforts to hide it no doubt helped get us to this point? I’ll leave it to the reader to describe.".......You just described it perfectly and this is the problem when our Fourth Estate has become so biased that they stop holding Government to account. They brought this upon themselves through their biased reporting. If they had been open and honest about what everyone could plainly see (Bidens cognitive decline), the Democrats would've had a primary with much better choices to run against Trump in the general election. Now the liberal media can spend the next four years reaping what they have sowed.
This is a well-written article but it doesn't offer anything new. By "the Post", I assume you mean the Washington Post. The New York Post has been sounding the alarm for years. Anyone who was remotely analytical or curious saw clearly what was before them. Sorry, but too late, too little.
My wife is friends with a few supposed journalists at various high-end NYC media cos.
What I think is important to understand is the intense amount of social fear they feel constantly, how they all monitor each other for signs of disloyalty or of heresy against the current approved narratives—it really is akin to living under the Stasi or in some other high-pressure witch-hunting environment.
The First Commandment of a member of the modern liberal media class is: Thou Shalt Not do or say a single thing that could conceivably help Trump or the Republicans, and this was more like an electrified third rail in the past two years when it seemed that a Biden v Trump rematch was inevitable.
And it doesn't matter if this is bad for the media properties in question, because obeying the First Commandment is essential to the survival of your professional and social life. It's better to remain a loyal foot soldier and official Insider in a dying outlet (you can always find another job) than to step out of line and find your entire career and social network gone forever.
The members of our MSM and our liberal class in general—esp also in culture and academia—have locked themselves inside some kind of social and psychological panopticon where everyone is watching and monitoring each other for ideological missteps and where justice is swift and cruel. If it's any consolation for all the propaganda sewage they pump into our social discourse, this is obviously a pretty miserable way to live.
But, miserable or not, I don't think this will change as long as the Orange Man roams the land.
Biden's decline was obvious in 2020, but had probably started years before. Obama knew of Biden's mental state before he called the #2, 3, and 4, Democrat Primary contenders asking them to drop out of the race so he could put Joe Biden, the #5 candidate (who had never won a single Primary in the 2020 season) as the Democrat presidential nominee. Obama knew that Biden had mentally checked out years before, but promoted him anyway. Why?
The biggest scandal in the history of American politics! People who were not elected ran the country for the last four years! That’s not what Americans voted for ! People need to go to jail !! Period !
News has a trust issue. And this is why.
And that is why most of us are now here relying on independent journalists who still believe in calling it like it is to hold government to account.
The first step to recovery from alcohol and drug abuse is for the individual to admit that he has a problem. Despite the massive decline of the legacy MSM’s credibility and business fortunes last year, they are nowhere near admitting that they have a problem so they will continue to decline. Intelligent citizens will have to become their own reporters, carefully studying primary sources of information and curating independent media (like this Substack) in order to be informed. My assumption given the evidence so far is that the MSM’s addiction to being a propaganda outlet for the left is a case of incurable terminal illness.
Definitely incurable, as proven by the fact that they haven't changed course yet. In fact, they've doubled down.
The fake-news Hamas media is a cancer on this nation and needs to be destroyed.
Where have I seen this before? Oh yeah, Pravda and the Soviet Union.
What is want to know is how that June 27th debate came about. Who set it up and why? The media haven't been interested in that topic in the slightest, which is pretty odd considering it changed the course of history.
Unfortunately, given the corporate media's performance on Russian collusion, the Hunter Biden laptop, the pandemic, and countless other news stories, none of this is a surprise. The only good news is that this is accelerating their own irrelevance as more and more people wake up to their gaslighting attempts and start turning to other sources of news.
Anyone who thinks this story is over hasn’t been paying attention to the new Trump. Once his cabinet is in place, expect an investigation into whether or not Biden was cognitively impaired that will challenge the validity of his pardons. The release of the audio from the Hur report, and testimony regarding why he remained in office after he was removed from the race.
The biggest scandal in
Our country since Watergate.
"That their efforts to hide it no doubt helped get us to this point? I’ll leave it to the reader to describe.".......You just described it perfectly and this is the problem when our Fourth Estate has become so biased that they stop holding Government to account. They brought this upon themselves through their biased reporting. If they had been open and honest about what everyone could plainly see (Bidens cognitive decline), the Democrats would've had a primary with much better choices to run against Trump in the general election. Now the liberal media can spend the next four years reaping what they have sowed.
Going forward, the monikers "MSM", "Legacy Media", et al, should be replaced by "Sharp as a Tack Media."
More like sharp as a tennis ball.
This is a well-written article but it doesn't offer anything new. By "the Post", I assume you mean the Washington Post. The New York Post has been sounding the alarm for years. Anyone who was remotely analytical or curious saw clearly what was before them. Sorry, but too late, too little.