BROADCAST BIAS: ‘Public’ media furious Washington Post cut back on anti-Trump crusade

The broadcast outlets that were astir upset astir The Washington Post announcing they were cutting 300 jobs were NPR and PBS. It makes sense, since the journalists astatine these outlets person nary volition of trying to marque money. They expect radical to manus them endless millions truthful they tin marque the benignant of "news"/commentary that attempts to alteration the satellite successful their ideological direction.

They person internalized the trauma of President Donald Trump and the Republicans taking distant an yearly half-billion dollars successful payer subsidies.

On the Saturday earlier the layoffs, NPR media newsman David Folkenflik explained the presumption from Post staffers: "They're saying that readers of The Washington Post merit sophisticated, contextualized reporting that requires a sophisticated, contextualized reporting team." These are buzzwords for wide bias, the aforesaid mode Dan Rather ever told radical CBS gave you "context and perspective."

Weekend anchor Scott Simon asked Folkenflik: "The Washington Post — it's a insubstantial woven into U.S. history. Has it truly travel to this?" The media newsman people thought of taking down President Richard Nixon, arsenic liberals do: "Well, obviously, you deliberation of Watergate and the Pentagon Papers and different historical moments, but they're besides doing things astatine the moment. They are holding powerfulness to account."

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Washington Post enforcement exertion Matt Murray spoke to Fox News Digital hours aft informing hundreds of staffers they were fto go. (Robert Miller/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

This being NPR, nary 1 was going to see conservatives suggesting that pandering to the left-wing basal of the Democrat Party mightiness not beryllium a stellar concern strategy. One of the amusingly tone-deaf moments earlier the Post occupation cuts came erstwhile staffers were hoping to enlist actors Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks to lobby the paper’s proprietor Jeff Bezos. They had starred successful the 2017 movie "The Post," which glamorized the paper’s warfare connected Nixon.

When wide journalists blather astir "holding powerfulness to account," they truly should inquire if outlets similar the Post energetically worked to clasp the Biden medication to account. The Post wasn’t going to triumph a Pulitzer Prize for exposing Hunter Biden. Instead, successful 2022, the Post won a prize for its reporting connected the January 6 riot. Even the prize strategy is each astir holding lone 1 enactment accountable.  

Instead, we retrieve Post front-page articles similar this Eli Saslow banger weeks aft Barack Obama won successful 2008. Obama "was photographed looking similar the paradigm of a caller benignant of statesmanlike fitness, 1 geared little toward preventing bosom attacks than winning swimsuit competitions. The prima glinted disconnected chiseled pectorals sculpted during 4 weightlifting sessions each week, and a assemblage toned by regular treadmill runs and hoops games." You could marque a movie retired of this, but it mightiness beryllium NC-17.

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When the Post announced the occupation cuts, CBS anchor Jessi Mitchell summarized connected its early-morning newscast: "Outrage sparked online aft the announcement, calling retired the publication’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, for the decision."

On NPR, Folkenflik recalled that Bezos utilized to beryllium a relation exemplary (for lefties). He "was seen arsenic a savior, a champion of pugnacious and aggravated journalism, has not interfered with the newsroom, but he's seemingly had enough."

Now, helium argued, "You've seen some Marty Baron and Marcus Brauchli — 2 distinguished erstwhile enforcement editors of The Washington Post — conscionable successful the past hr oregon 2 stock accusation with me, saying fundamentally determination seems to beryllium nary strategy. The Washington Post, its readers and the state merit better."

Baron is simply a poster lad for crusading wide journalism. He was glamorized for The Boston Globe’s warfare connected the Catholic Church successful the 2015 movie "Spotlight." Now he’s starred successful respective PBS segments lamenting Bezos. On "Amanpour & Co." connected January 23, helium suggested Bezos was acold excessively "tepid" toward Trump and nary longer lives up to the Post’s drama-queen motto, "Democracy Dies successful Darkness."

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After the cuts were announced, "PBS News Hour" interviewed Baron for 7 minutes, and helium said the cuts did "enormous damage" to the paper. Baron uncorked the full leftist critique. Bezos drove distant the leftist subscribers by sidesplitting the paper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris successful 2024, and past Bezos appeared connected signifier astatine Trump’s inauguration. He bought rights to Trump’s world amusement "The Apprentice" for Amazon Prime and bankrolled a large documentary connected Trump’s woman and First Lady, "Melania."

When the Post announced the occupation cuts, CBS anchor Jessi Mitchell summarized connected its early-morning newscast: "Outrage sparked online aft the announcement, calling retired the publication’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, for the decision."

Baron was truthful upset helium added the Post bosses were "completely changing the sentiment pages truthful that fundamentally they person nary columnists who are truly near of center. And they're precise deferential to Trump. And I deliberation they deficiency a motivation core." This would travel arsenic a astonishment to their Trump-haters similar Max Boot, David Ignatius, Kathleen Parker and Fareed Zakaria, to sanction a few.

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New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof (last seen moving for bureau arsenic a Democrat successful his autochthonal Oregon), tweeted retired the NPR/PBS mindset: "Jeff Bezos, who could support the Wash Post a pillar of American ideology with the alteration dug retired from his limousine seats, sets an illustration of surrender to authoritarianism for each different concern idiosyncratic and instauration successful America."

Everything is precise achromatic and achromatic for these journalists. You are either raging against the Trump instrumentality oregon you are collaborating with their imaginary Hitler. Their wounded feelings astatine Bezos consciousness similar a tsunami of motivation superiority and entitlement.

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