'Tis The Season To Turn Off The Mainstream Media
This holiday season, give yourself the gift of stepping away from the corporate media's coverage of US politics.
Imagine a reality in which you, the reader, did not watch the likes of CNN, or read the New York Times, in the months building up to the midterms. Would you have been as anxious about the election? Certainly, you would not have heard about the inevitable “red wave” that was promised to sweep across the Senate.
Ask yourself: Did the pundits’ grim predictions dissuade voters from showing up to the ballot box, in let’s say, five House districts? If so, that would have been enough to give Democrats the majority in both chambers of Congress.
Neither the mainstream media outlets — nor the corporate newsletters — have issued apologies for citing numerous inaccurate polls in the weeks leading up to the midterms. Nor have they shown remorse for perpetuating a false perception of President Biden’s “sinking” approval rating throughout the entirety of the 2022 election cycle.
No accountability for their misleading, detrimental reporting.
Instead, NBC is back to criticizing President Biden -- this time for eating lobster with France's President, Emmanuel Macron. NBC titled their article: "Biden state dinner serves up lobster à la controversy." It appears this dinner was more scandalous than Trump's dinner with two Holocaust-deniers — an event which the networks apparently have moved on from.
In July, New York Times’ writer, Peter Baker, chastised Biden for his age, while simultaneously omitting Biden’s various accomplishments — such as creating more jobs than any president in the past 40 years, or for stealthily taking out the leader of al Qaeda.
Of course, Biden proved Baker wrong by maintaining his Senate majority — as an 80 year old President in an off-year — but by then, Baker’s damage had already been done.
In September, CNN’s Brianna Keilar attacked Biden for having Marines positioned behind him during his speech — a speech in which Biden warned of the grave threat MAGA-Republicans posed to the nation.
CNN saw this is an opportunity to criticize Biden for “politicizing” the military — instead of applauding Biden for unifying the country against a former president who weaponized his armed supporters to dismantle a 245 year Democracy.
For what it’s worth, nearly every Republican president prior to Biden has stationed marines behind himself during a speech; from George W. Bush to Donald Trump — who uniquely commanded his troops to teargas peaceful protestors for a photo-op.
When things are going politically well for the Democrats, the media will balance it out by either nitpicking their faults, or via intentionally glossing over the Republicans’ various enormities.
In spite of Biden’s historic achievements, in spite of Democrats defending their Senate majority in the 2022 midterms, and in spite of Democrats being unequivocal 2024 favorites to reclaim both chambers and secure a second term in the White House — media outlets have continued to sell a narrative that ‘all is not well’ in the Democratic Party.
In fact, it appears they have decided to kick their Biden-bashing into high gear: