Easy question really; the press is no longer a check on our government, it’s largely there to pump out propaganda and studiously ignore anything that threatens the power of the elites classes.
I get this, and there are a lot of places pumping out low quality garbage that they just don’t care about.
That being said, staying alive as a news business in 2024 seems extremely difficult. Google + Facebook have fucked around with your business model for a decade, stealing clicks away and aggregating titles and pages (like with AMP). And now AI’s going to fuck everything up, and could fundamentally change how we receive our information.
I do empathize with people trying to report on what’s occurring in the world having to deal with all these larger struggles impacting their occupation.
Yeah they missed how everything Trump said was so unhinged he sounded like he hasn’t even been living on this planet. Also, what are “black jobs”, Mr Trump?
I’m not from the US, but I think senile alright guy is better than senile sumo hitler and the free press probably thought that as well.
The media didn’t miss a story, they actively colluded to hide it. Anyone pointing out Biden’s decline was a Fox news watching conspiracy theorist, or it was a deep fake.
The press didn’t miss it, they ignored it. Questions about his age have been dismissed or rejected since 2020, as though it’d somehow inappropriate to question the ability of an 80 year old to lead country. They never questioned why the President was doing so few unscripted appearances, or acknowledged some of his confused comments in press conferences. The pundit class even accused Jon Stewart of helping Trump for talking about this a few months ago.
Now that the entire country watched him have a 90 minute senior moment, the press is finally forced to give his fitness the scrutiny it deserves. And the worst part is that liberals are have convinced themselves that the problem isn’t that the media never asked these questions, but that they’ve finally started asking these questions.
When “moderates” say there no time to question if Biden is up to it.
Remember theyve literally been saying it for a fucking year now.
Nearly a year ago, in August 2023, the Associated Press-NORC poll found that three-quarters of U.S. adults said that the 81-year-old Biden was too old to effectively serve another four-year term as president. AP-NORC found this February that six in 10 adults were “not very” or “not at all” confident that Biden had the mental capability to serve as president, although the sentiment was roughly the same for his 78-year-old Republican opponent, Donald Trump.
When they say they just found out too, remember they’ve literally been hiding him from the public, literally a tenth of the the news conferences as the last D president.
The 36 news conferences he had given through June 30 were fewer than any president in the same time frame since Ronald Reagan, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, director of the White House Transition Project. Biden gave a total of 128 interviews, compared to Donald Trump’s 369 at the same stage of his presidency and 497 by Biden’s former boss, she said.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“It is simply astounding for the entire country, including its most seasoned reporters, to be as shocked as everyone was by the ugly and painful reality of Biden’s debate performance,” Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times, told the website Semafor this week.
Throughout the campaign, Biden aides have pushed back aggressively on the notion that he had become diminished, and some supporters are angered by any attention the issue gets in comparison to stories about whether or not Trump tells the truth.
Four reporters from the Times collaborated on a story, published Tuesday, that said several people who had encountered Biden behind closed doors noticed “he increasingly appeared confused or listless, or would lose the thread of conversations.”
The 36 news conferences he had given through June 30 were fewer than any president in the same time frame since Ronald Reagan, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, director of the White House Transition Project.
Yet because the story, in a newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, prominently quoted Republican House speakers Kevin McCarthy and Mike Johnson, it was dismissed by many at the time as being inspired by partisanship.
“What I’ve seen and what our readers have experienced from our team is steadfast, fact-based reporting on the subject that began a couple of years ago as we documented Biden’s age-related challenges in multiple, industry-leading articles,” Kahn wrote.
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