With a reelection campaign underway, there are signs that those behind the president are starting to more aggressively and publicly challenge how he is portrayed.
Within the past two weeks, an administration aide sent an unusual letter to the White House Correspondents’ Association complaining about coverage of a special counsel’s report on Biden’s handling of classified documents. In addition, the president’s campaign objected to its perception that negative stories about Biden’s age got more attention than remarks by Donald Trump about the NATO alliance.
It was fucked up when trump attacked the press, it’s still fucked up that Biden does it.
And it’s really fucked up that people act like they don’t see where this is headed.
Republicans will keep getting worse, and neoliberals will keep following them to the bottom and screeching at anyone that doesn’t understand why we have to throw out standards out the window just because Republicans did it.
But like, they’re right. There was way more coverage over a thing that’s at best a wash as far as it should affect anyone’s choice for president (since there’s not a feasible non-old option) while they brushed past an actual big dangerous world shaping statement.
The press should cover Biden’s age, for sure, but they’re also hopelessly chasing some idiotic idea of “balance” that needs increasingly overhyped negative stories about Biden to compensate for Trump being an endless dumpster fire. The press are active participants in defining “what’s important” and have been so worked over by Republicans crying about the liberal media (and a desire to chase conservative readers) that they don’t actually try to objectively report developments. Trump’s brain has been leaking for years, including some much more convincing examples of being unable to form coherent thoughts or remember who he’s talking about, and they’d never even imagine spending a whole week talking about it.
Most of the press isn’t speaking truth to power to inform the public. They’re instead a crucial part of the whole conservative-neoliberal death spiral. They allow the Republicans to march endlessly towards fascism because talking endlessly about how that’s bad would make them look biased while building the incentives (by accepting conservative bullshit framing on things uncritically) that pushes/gives cover for the neoliberals sliding right.
And it’s really fucked up that people act like they don’t see where this is headed.
The media doesn’t get free reign to sway public opinion however they feel by putting out manipulative coverage. These companies are owned by rich elites who want to control the narrative and put their preferred candidate on top. That’s not journalism, it’s propaganda.
But….but if we tell the truth about Biden, Trump will be ten times worse…. We can’t criticize we have to vote blue no matter who because I listen to msnbc, cnn, npr, and bbc. I love sucking corporate cock.
It was fucked up when trump attacked the press, it’s still fucked up that Biden does it.
And it’s really fucked up that people act like they don’t see where this is headed.
Republicans will keep getting worse, and neoliberals will keep following them to the bottom and screeching at anyone that doesn’t understand why we have to throw out standards out the window just because Republicans did it.
But like, they’re right. There was way more coverage over a thing that’s at best a wash as far as it should affect anyone’s choice for president (since there’s not a feasible non-old option) while they brushed past an actual big dangerous world shaping statement.
The press should cover Biden’s age, for sure, but they’re also hopelessly chasing some idiotic idea of “balance” that needs increasingly overhyped negative stories about Biden to compensate for Trump being an endless dumpster fire. The press are active participants in defining “what’s important” and have been so worked over by Republicans crying about the liberal media (and a desire to chase conservative readers) that they don’t actually try to objectively report developments. Trump’s brain has been leaking for years, including some much more convincing examples of being unable to form coherent thoughts or remember who he’s talking about, and they’d never even imagine spending a whole week talking about it.
Most of the press isn’t speaking truth to power to inform the public. They’re instead a crucial part of the whole conservative-neoliberal death spiral. They allow the Republicans to march endlessly towards fascism because talking endlessly about how that’s bad would make them look biased while building the incentives (by accepting conservative bullshit framing on things uncritically) that pushes/gives cover for the neoliberals sliding right.
The media doesn’t get free reign to sway public opinion however they feel by putting out manipulative coverage. These companies are owned by rich elites who want to control the narrative and put their preferred candidate on top. That’s not journalism, it’s propaganda.
The way to fix that isn’t just insisting they print propaganda from the opposite side.
But….but if we tell the truth about Biden, Trump will be ten times worse…. We can’t criticize we have to vote blue no matter who because I listen to msnbc, cnn, npr, and bbc. I love sucking corporate cock.