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Showing Original Post only (View all)Press Watch: Why is MSM so gentle with Joe Biden? [View all]
This is a delicate topic, but an important one for an honest vetting of our potential nominees.
https://presswatchers.org/2020/01/why-is-the-mainstream-media-so-gentle-to-joe-biden/
T The two most important roles for journalists during political primary season are to cull the herd of the weakest candidates and take their best shots at the frontrunner, to test his or her readiness for the general election. That's a public service for the political ecosystem.
So a profoundly weak frontrunner should be the ultimate in big game for our top political reporters.
Instead, mainstream journalists in the best positions to demand answers during sit-down interviews and televised debates have been remarkably gentle with Joe Biden.
They ask about his decision to authorize the war in Iraq, but not about the many documented times he has lied about why he made that decision, and when he first realized the war was a mistake.
They ask questions about his fitness for office, but let him off with glib answers about push-ups rather than assertively confronting him with examples of his consistent and troubling incoherence even when he is in the process of giving them fresh examples.
So a profoundly weak frontrunner should be the ultimate in big game for our top political reporters.
Instead, mainstream journalists in the best positions to demand answers during sit-down interviews and televised debates have been remarkably gentle with Joe Biden.
They ask about his decision to authorize the war in Iraq, but not about the many documented times he has lied about why he made that decision, and when he first realized the war was a mistake.
They ask questions about his fitness for office, but let him off with glib answers about push-ups rather than assertively confronting him with examples of his consistent and troubling incoherence even when he is in the process of giving them fresh examples.
About Press Watch:
Were entering a critical period in American politics and American political journalism is not up to the task. Donald Trumps campaign and presidency have exposed and exploited chronic weaknesses like never before. And despite some progress, elite political press coverage insufficiently rebuts lies; normalizes abnormal behavior; asserts false equivalences; remains overly susceptible to spectacle, conflict, and gamesmanship; fails to contextualize the news with expertise and on and on.
(Note to potential jurors: this is legitimate, evidence based criticism of both Biden and the media, not bashing, Thank You).
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Press Watch has plenty of criticism for all the media hacks who carry water for Trump
Fiendish Thingy
Jan 2020
#9
First of all this is a Salon article...and that is the home of HA Goodman...and Salon is very
Demsrule86
Jan 2020
#17
Exactly, this is why he is the perfect nominee...was VP for a popular Democratic president. He is
Demsrule86
Jan 2020
#51
Great ad!! Directed at our foe...all candidates should be pushing against dotard, not each other
Thekaspervote
Jan 2020
#29
They have been after Biden since before he entered the race...there really is no there there...
Demsrule86
Jan 2020
#6
Mr. Froomkin hasn't been paying much attention to the "mainstream media". He's clearly wrong.
George II
Jan 2020
#8
Please there is a reason why I stopped watching MSNBC and CNN...after every debate, any rally
Demsrule86
Jan 2020
#20
I used to watch Morning Joe and they were very anti-Biden...particularly Mika...still are.
Demsrule86
Jan 2020
#47
If it isn't the media's job to vet candidates, then whose job is it? Nt
Fiendish Thingy
Jan 2020
#16
It is the media's job examine a candidate's legitimate flaws and shortcomings to inform voters
Fiendish Thingy
Jan 2020
#41
It's not up to journalists to "cull the herd." That's up to voters.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jan 2020
#19
A simple comparison of pre-2016 videos of Biden with clips from the debates is sufficient evidence
Fiendish Thingy
Jan 2020
#49
Those who want Trump to win are saying they will vote for Sanders in the primary...well he has been
Demsrule86
Jan 2020
#53
I watched MSNBC in the wake of Linda Flores' and other women's claims about Joe's over familiarity
emmaverybo
Jan 2020
#56
Yes, this is a very important topic, but one most will ignore because of Bernie.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jan 2020
#62