Opinion: The media wants to paint Joe Biden as a failure. He won't let that happen. - Rubin

[question everything]

President Biden, while marking the end of his first year in office on Wednesday, met a press corps anxious to paint him as a failure. While conceding that his voting rights bill and Build Back Better package have both stalled, Biden stuck to one core theme: The economy and the effort to crush the pandemic are improving because of his administration.

Many of the questions from reporters verged on self-parody. Fox News’s Peter Doocy comically asked why Biden is pulling the country so far to the left. (Disclosure: I’m an MSNBC contributor.) The right-wing outfit Newsmax asked about his mental fitness for the job. It seemed everything was his fault, from Republicans’ refusal to support virtually any proposal to the fight between airlines and telecom companies over 5G.

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While he argued that his BBB plan would have helped to address rising prices, such as for child care and prescription drugs, he recognized for the first time that the bill may need to broken into “big chunks.” While he initially denied that he was going to “scale back” his ambitions, this suggested he was doing just that. He speculated that investments in clean energy and universal pre-K might get through, but that an expanded child tax credit and free community college would not.

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In short, with the exception of the Russia questions, Biden turned in a strong performance that belies the right’s accusation that he is feeble. He was determinedly upbeat, ready to defend a productive first year and more pointed than he has been in dealing with Republican extremism. The press corps, by contrast, revealed once more that they put more emphasis on sounding tough, asking unanswerable questions and creating conflict than they do on exploring some of the gravest problems our country has ever faced. Our democracy deserves better.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/19/media-wants-paint-joe-biden-failure-he-wont-let-that-happen

[The Roux Comes First]

1. Our Democracy Has Deserved Better From the Media for Decades!

NYT, WaPo, CNN, WSJ, we're looking at you, and fed up with your equivocation and desperate attempts to manufacture conflict and find both-siderism when there is little or none.

We need a new Zinn!

[Deuxcents]

2. Maybe we can start at the top

Some new respect from the press releases at the WH and their ridiculous questions w/ alternative answers that are twisted n meant for ratings .. for starters

[Moebym]

3. WaPo ought to drop that "Democracy Dies in Darkness" motto

They are slowly strangling democracy as we speak by undermining the only party interested in protecting it.

[Yoyoyo77]

4. This article is from the Post! What's wrong with it?

[question everything]

6. Oh come on

The WaPO, NYT, CNN and the rest of them aim to provide a real balanced view. The do not belong to DU. I think that this gives them more credibility. If all sides are mad at them they must be doing something right. Certainly their opinion columnists - Rubin is one of them - provide diverse opinions.

A young acquaintance lately told us that she gets her news from... YouTube???

[twodogsbarking]

5. They don't like Joe because he doesn't act to get better ratings,

he does his job and does it well.