MAINSTREAM MEDIA SELF-IMPLODING
Pundits out of touch with politics
No one knows who will win the election this November but we can be sure of one thing: most of the leftwing media and pollsters will get it wrong.
Maybe we can ask CNN’s perpetually anti-Trump anchor Brianna Keilar, who this week dressed up as a portly moon to demonstrate what would happen during the solar eclipse.
And they made fun of Donald Trump for looking at the eclipse seven years ago.
Never has the media reached such a low point. Whether it’s local news dying, or internal feuds or layoffs, or buyouts even at publicly funded radio, the wobbly mainstream press is self-imploding.
Yet to generate ratings or clicks, they run endless stories about polling showing Joe Biden or Trump winning, depending on the day. And while the media is glaringly friendly to Biden, who ignores shouted questions, they are hostile to an expresident who wades into the gaggle and takes questions.
It’s no wonder that public trust of the media and polls are at an alltime nadir. Maybe Brianna can moderate a debate in her moon suit.
A senior NPR editor wrote a scathing critique of the public news organization this week, saying it lacks diversity and no longer represents America.
“An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America,” NPR’s Uri Berliner wrote.
Berliner’s article, “How We Lost America’s Trust,” was published by the website Free Press and concluded that NPR is too liberal and biased, taking sides on issues like the Israel-Hamas war and the Trump-Russia collusion false story.
A newsroom survey of NPR found that Democrats outnumber Republicans 87-0.
Berliner said NPR’s audience is now overwhelmingly liberal, describing listeners as “EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote-bag carrying coastal elite.”
Sound familiar, Massachusetts?
NPR leaders fired back saying they disagreed with Berliner’s conclusions.
“We must have vigorous discussions in our newsroom about how we serve the public as a whole, fostering a culture of conversation that breaks down the silos that we sometimes end up retreating to,” editor-in-chief Edith Chapin wrote.
If you can wade through those cliches, good luck.
Fox News contributor Juan Williams, who was let go by NPR more than 10 years ago because of comments about Muslims he made for Fox, agreed with Berliner and said he was not surprised by his allegations.
“Not only did they fire me, they called me a psycho. I mean, they said horrible things about me quite publicly,” Williams said on Fox.
The bias against Trump and Republicans in the mainstream media even extends to The Drudge Report, which offers daily links to propaganda attacking the former president.
Then there’s the juicy internal divisions at the stately New York Times, which is embroiled in controversy over its coverage of the war in Gaza.
The warring factions led to sensitive internal information being leaked and the union alleging that top executives investigating the leaks were doing “targeted interrogation” of journalists of Middle Eastern descent.
The dispute centered around a story the Times did about Hamas terrorists committing a pattern of sexual assaults in their Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The story was questioned by other Times journalists, who revealed confidential material about the story.
“No one in our newsroom or company has been or will be scrutinized because of ethnic or national origin… Any such thing would be deeply offensive to us,” Times editor Joe Kahn wrote in a memo to staffers. All this and the election is still seven months away.