Post-Election Day, MSNBC viewership fell to a 25-year low and CNN fell to new lows as well. They had all their eggs in one basket. They clearly wanted and supported the Democratic candidate for president, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Is that what we expect from our “news” media? They amplified and used hyperbole to extenuate the negatives for former President Donald Trump, never pointed out anything good about him, and refused to acknowledge or challenge anything that could be deemed negative for Harris, while always giving her high praise. They were like high school cheerleaders at a football game.
When communist countries do this to their people, we refer to it as propaganda. The absence of propaganda is free, fair and balanced coverage, once a trademark of American journalism.
Has the cable networks’ credibility been so damaged that they cannot recalibrate?
One could say that four years ago, afterthe 2020 election, we saw something else that was bad in journalism and the news coverage from cable networks hit a historic low.
At that time, the culprit was the conservative leaning Fox News. It ultimately resulted in a nearly $800 million defamation settlement going to its victim, Dominion Voting System, due to Fox’s false claims that Dominion voting machines were fraudulent. With that lawsuit, Fox caused Americans to lose trust in its reporting.
The executives at Fox, however, took quick and decisive action to right the ship. It will always be a work in progress, but they have regained the trust of millions of Americans.
During the Biden administration the broadcast network news stations failed us, especially with their investigative reporting teams. At times they followed the cable networks too closely. Where were the tough questions on policies that would affect Americans? For example, did anyone in the media ask why it was OK to spend nearly $1 trillion on climate change initiatives when we would have to borrow nearly $1 trillion to pay for them? Also, should we spend hundreds of billion dollars on two wars when we could not pay for them? Simple questions, which nobody asked.
President Joe Biden was allowed to avoid the press and avoid tough questions for four years. He held fewer White House press conferences than any president in modern history. His public visibility was about the same as it has been in the last several months. He has been the “invisible man.” But the liberal media, especially the liberal cable networks, have been OK with that.
Instead, the deceptive Democrats had the media running after stories on the Trump reality show, ignoring the mental decline of Biden and blindly repeating Democratic Party talking points without them being challenged or questioned.
There was even a time when liberal cable news outlets were attempting to sell us Bidenomics, when every week at the grocery store we lived the pain caused by inflation. They kept telling us that we were doing great, better than European nations. News flash — we are Americans; we are supposed to be doing better than the Europeans.
The Biden administration allowed millions of illegal immigrants to invade America, an offense directly in conflict with the U.S. Constitution, which states that our government must prevent an invasion of America.
Four years of Biden-Harris has truly made us thankful that we will soon not have them at the helm much longer. Now, can the liberal media return to journalism as we once knew it?