Thursday, January 03, 2019

Another Year of Torrential Media BiasThe American Spectator

Another Year of Torrential Media BiasThe American Spectator
"Early in his presidency Donald Trump put his finger on the media’s rawest wound — that “no one believes” it anymore. 
But the more the public shrugs at the media’s propaganda, the more journalists insist on labeling their transparently biased coverage as “factual” and “truthful.”
See the source imageToday’s CNN is so hopelessly biased it makes the days of Ted Turner look journalistically rigorous.
Back then, at least a few CNN hosts would fake up a just-the-facts mien.
Now every last CNN host is a strident anti-Trump pundit. 
...In a smug bow to this open dogmatism, NBC’s Chuck Todd last Sunday prided himself on holding an hourlong episode of Meet the Press devoted to climate change without any conservative skeptics present.
Todd teed up the episode with a pompous disclaimer that sums up the presumption and propaganda of the media perfectly: “Just as important as what we are going to do is what we’re not going to do. We’re not going to debate climate change, the existence of it. The earth is getting hotter and human activity is a major cause, period. We’re not going to give time to climate deniers. The science is settled even if political opinion is not.”...
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