Joe Biden Is the Perfect President for Our Imperfect Press
Our nation’s political media is broken, and it doesn’t plan on fixing itself anytime soon.
Starting with the 2016 Presidential campaign, the national political media descended into chaos and devolved into D.C.’s version of Page Six. Everything became gossip and innuendo; actual policy be damned.
Many of us hoped there would be a reckoning after it became clear the news media had spread Russian propaganda in the form of hacked e-mails and social media content. Instead, the news media doubled down on the palace intrigue stories, fueled by the hate clicks of millions of liberals who loathed the former President.
The massive blue wave of 2018 changed little. Neither did Joe Biden’s win. Nor did the dual Senate wins in Georgia to turn the Senate blue. The American people were making it very, very clear that they no longer supported MAGA or its impact on the country. The media, for some reason, ignored them.
The biggest myth in this country is the liberal media bias, as day after day, the national news cycle is determined by what Republicans say. For four years, the last guy’s tweets determined what the media would cover. Early in President Biden’s term, whatever Republicans are fake outraged about, starting with “unity” and now onto the “mean” tweets of his nominee for the…