“The issue highlights what happens when the press joins forces with the GOP to hype a made-up Biden “crisis,” and how news outlets look away when the allegation proves to be a total bust.”
“The press spent the last five months of the year so obsessed with touting an endless list of supposed Biden calamities (remember the White House’s Colonial Pipeline “crisis”?), that news outlets seamlessly added the supply chain to Biden’s To Do list.”
“Alternately hyped as a “problem,’ a “Christmas crisis,” and even a looming “nightmare” for Biden, the holiday season supply chain issue took on Herculean importance for the political press corps, which until this year had never cared about the global trade issue”
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“It’s clear that following the election, conservatives and journalists came to the exact same conclusion at the exact same time about CRT. That’s because journalists spent most of this year simply regurgitating right-wing lies.”
“This whole chapter represents a textbook example of how every Beltway news cycle starts with the very simple premise: What are Republicans angry about today?”
“The coup blueprint still has not appeared on the front page of a single major American newspaper, nor has any influential editorial page weighed in. Republican members of Congress have not been repeatedly pressed to explain the document”
“We’re learning about it slowly and reluctantly by the Beltway press, which instead of touting the PowerPoint as a smoking gun that reveals the GOP’s proudly anti-democratic ways, is treating the demented proposal as an oddity that doesn’t require much attention.”
of course, no mention here abt what role the press has played doing the GOP’s bidding for last two months by trashing the economy; nytimes.com/2021/12/10/bus…
Biden just magically has a messaging problem re: economy, media’s hysterical. relentless coverage isn’t a factor
when US jobless claims fell to 52-yr low this week, NYT covered it w/ one paragraph in a story shoved inside the biz section
but gee, why don’t Americans think the economy is doing ok?