First, let me recommend this site, to which I’m linking for purposes of this post. Eric Boehlert covers media bias, the real kind, that routinely consigns Democrats to the bench. In this instance, he points out something that is both outrageous and perfectly predictable:
After creating new programming rules for the Trump administration and airing virtually every minute of every White House press briefing live and in its entirety, CNN has quietly cut the cord with the new Democratic administration.
Just one month into President Joe Biden’s term, the all-news cable channel last week stopped airing the daily White House press briefings. Perhaps the events weren’t entertaining enough, as White House spokesperson Jen Psaki has routinely declined to insert Biden into cultural war debates, refused to castigate reporters, and won’t make stuff up in the name of partisan warfare, the way her Republican predecessors did.
Read the whole thing.
The fact is that this bias, which is standard fare on the Sunday shows (how many times has the idiotic Lindsey Graham been on Meet the Press?) makes the press complicit with the ongoing destruction of democratic norms in this country. If you give the liars prominence, you are implicitly endorsing their point of view, whether you want to admit it or not.
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