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emmaverybo

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Mon Sep 13, 2021, 05:33 PM Sep 2021

What Biden Has Actually Accomplished vs. Dangerous Anti-Biden Propaganda [View all]

Forget About Biden’sCruel Summer’—He’s Doing Big Things

He’s ended America’s longest war, got vaccines distributed at no cost nationwide and halved the child poverty rate. So why all the stories about ‘Biden‘s Cruel Summer’?

David Rothkopf Daily Beast

We are both old enough to remember a time when you picked up the newspaper in the morning or turned on the television news to find out what was happening in the world. Now, it is not that simple.

Opinion, spin, misguided attempts at “objectivity” that produce false equivalencies, the partisanship of some media outlets and a herd mentality in the press have made it difficult to know where the facts end and the truth begins. When untrue or misleading narratives emerge, they can take on a life of their own and have serious real world consequences—shifting the political landscape, remaking polls, changing how subsequent developments are viewed or even impacting whether and how they take place.

This has seldom been made more clear than in the recent treatment of President Biden in the media. Not only has much of it been divorced from reality, misguided, or twisted, but the real world implications of the narratives that have emerged in the past several weeks could have lasting negative ramifications for the country.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/bidens-achievements-are-big-his-press-coverage-is-small?ref=home
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