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What If We Had a Functional Media?


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Could you imagine the difference if, in the fall of 2020, the Washington Post had accepted a copy of the Hunter Biden hard drive and actually investigated the thousands of emails, photos, text messages, and other evidence that implicated not just Hunter but his father Joe Biden in sundry unethical and criminal enterprises?

What about CBS, NBC, and ABC? Shouldn’t we as news consumers expect these leviathans “to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interests involved,” as the new owner of the New York Times declared way back in 1896?

Yet in October 2020, when the New York Post wrote a series of stories describing the corrupt nature of the Biden family as exposed by the Hunter Biden laptop, there were few mainstream media outlets that dared to follow. Or really, not dared, but chose. Because there is nothing daring about doing your job correctly.

You would think that when all the major social media companies like Facebook and Twitter blocked any discussion of the New York Post’s reporting on the laptop, these other major news corporations would have come to the aid of the Post. If any of them had done their own investigation of the laptop, do you think that Twitter could have continued to censor the news under the false claim that it was Russian disinformation? Hardly. But no mainstream media outlets were willing to put their own reputations on the line to support free speech – because their reputations are based entirely on being guardians of the left, and protecting Hillary, Barack and the Bidens is more important than fidelity to any chimeric sense of fairness and honor.

And Hunter Biden’s laptop is just a symptom. In instance after instance, most of the media either closes its eyes to stories that implicate liberals or Democrats in unethical or illegal behavior, or pretends they are of no importance. Examples abound, from the whitewashing of Hillary Clinton’s involvement in the invention of the Russia collusion hoax to the complete lack of curiosity about the sweetheart deal offered to Hunter Biden by the so-called independent Justice Department.:snip:

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11 September, 2023
 

You can feel the moral-political pendulum about to swing. Minorities are disassociating themselves from the Party of Progressives at record rates. Moderates who remember the Democratic Party as it was in the days of Clinton are aghast at the new aristocratic leftist regime. Voters of every stripe understand exactly why a feeble president suits the left perfectly. Nothing better describes the party of the left better than its indignant defense of trans ideology, which shrilly declares nothing is what it is, but rather whatever one thinks it is

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11 September, 2023
 

Oh I dunno. Bill Clinton set the tone with "....depends on what the definition of "is" is." We now have the left bending the narrative to its will by constantly & consistently alterating the meanings of many ordinary terms.

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Question Have we ever Really had a Functional Media? Now thee is a huge difference with (say) NBC in 1963 and NBC in 2023. Yes they were biased then, but because they tied to appeal 90+% of the audience, they hid it, made an effort to look unbiased.. Today they don't even really make the effort.

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