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2023 – Media’s Year of Moral Collapse

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AMAC Exclusive – By B.C. Brutus

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Journalism schools may someday point to 2023 as the year of a final moral collapse for the corporate media – a point of no return ultimately reached after years of ethical decline and loss of credibility with the public.

This year, perhaps more than any other in history, America’s once lionized major news organizations proved they were not about “the news” at all, but about the protection of those in power and partisan politicians they favored.

In doing so, they toppled the ethical pillars that once stood as the greatest traditions of American journalism—principles such as:

  • Expose and relentlessly pursue political scandals and public corruption no matter which party is involved.
  • Bring to light cover-ups by law enforcement and government officials seeking to hide scandals and wrongdoing by the powerful, or trying to obstruct congressional investigations into such wrongdoing.
  • Dig into secret “dark money” forces or lawyers abusing the legal system to smear their political opponents or those who dissent from the establishment view.
  • Expose and hold up for public scrutiny purveyors of hatred and malice like antisemitism and never excuse it or them.
  • And above all, never act as an agent of the government and those in power and relentlessly expose efforts of government or powerful enterprises to censor dissenters or infringe on Americans’ right to free speech.

Here are some examples of why 2023 may well be seen as the year corporate American journalism entirely lost any claim on moral sense or ethical conduct.

Doubling down on the cover-up of the “Biden Crime Family” – the greatest public corruption scandal in American history, surpassing Teapot Dome, Credit Mobilier, and Watergate

The slew of revelations about the Biden family’s shady foreign business dealings and alleged influence peddling ranks among the most shocking scandals in American history and should’ve been the biggest domestic political story of the year by far. But instead, a coordinated campaign of Democrat obstructionism and media misdirection have insulated Biden from criticism and accountability.

In generations past, media outlets understood the vital role they played in holding government officials accountable in exposing wrongdoing by those in power. Journalists likewise prided themselves on never serving the interests of government officials or allowing themselves to be used as tools to advance a partisan agenda.

Now, however, the media has become a primary enabler of Biden’s corruption and a pawn in all the left’s schemes. While repeating Democrat talking points about how Republicans are a “threat to democracy” and legitimizing left-wing efforts to financially destroy and imprison Donald Trump, Biden’s greatest political threat, the media has simultaneously downplayed, discredited, and ignored mounting evidence implicating the First Family in a string of major crimes.

Consider for a moment just some of what House Republicans and enterprising conservative journalists have unearthed.

We now know that, as president, Joe Biden lied on multiple occasions about his knowledge of his son’s business dealings. We know that Hunter Biden traveled with Joe Biden on Air Force Two to visit at least 15 countries and conduct business. We know that, while he was vice president, Joe Biden used an alias to secretly communicate via email with Hunter’s business partners. We also know that Owasco PC, Hunter Biden’s business entity that is now under DOJ investigation for tax evasion and other crimes, made direct monthly payments to Joe Biden.

Overall, as the House Oversight Committee has reported, the Biden family and their associates “raked in over $24 million dollars between 2015 and 2019 by selling Joe Biden as ‘the brand’” – including millions from entities linked directly to the Chinese Communist Party.

Furthermore, as two whistleblowers have attested, when the IRS launched an investigation into these dealings, the Biden family received “preferential treatment” amid pressure from U.S. Attorneys whom Biden appointed – leading to a sweetheart plea deal for Hunter Biden that was later rejected. In fact, were it not for these two courageous whistleblowers and a federal judge, it is entirely possible that Hunter Biden would have escaped with even less than a slap on the wrist and blanket immunity for any as-yet undiscovered crimes.

Then there is the matter of Hunter Biden’s involvement in Ukraine, where he sat on the board of energy company Burisma while his father was vice president under Barack Obama. Despite having no prior experience in the energy sector and admittedly suffering from a range of substance abuse issues at the time, the younger Biden and a business partner were paid $6.5 million in 2014 and 2015 alone.

All of this, of course, comes in the context of Joe Biden openly admitting in 2018 that he threatened in 2016 to withhold military aid to Ukraine if the Ukrainian government did not fire a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma. (As many conservatives have astutely pointed out, Biden was, in other words, openly admitting that he did what the media accused Trump of doing as the grounds for Democrats’ first impeachment against him in 2019.)

More recently, there is the matter of Hunter’s bizarre art career. Despite no formal art training, the First Son allegedly made at least $1.3 million selling his art, including by selling one painting to a major Democrat donor whom Joe Biden later appointed to a presidential commission.

Joe Biden and his legal team have maintained that all of these dealings were legitimate – claims parroted without question by the mainstream media. But neither the Bidens nor the media have been able to offer any specifics on any actual work products that the Biden family provided, or any value at all that Biden family members could provide to foreign businesses – aside, of course, from access to Joe Biden himself.

Democrats have clung to the assertion that in order for there to be any wrongdoing, it must be proven that Joe Biden accepted money directly from a foreign entity in exchange for favorable treatment. But as law professor Jonathan Turley has pointed out during congressional testimony, “money going to family members is, in fact, a benefit.” Turley has also penned an op-ed for The New York Post pointing out specific instances where Joe directly benefited from his family’s business dealings.

If you’ve only been tuning in to the mainstream outlets this year, you likely haven’t heard any of this. Major papers like The New York Times and The Washington Post continue to offer only cursory coverage of the scandal and bracket the GOP’s allegations against the Biden family with phrases like “without evidence.”

It’s also worth considering what this coverage would be like if Trump were in Biden’s place, and his children were the ones making millions of dollars a year without any discernible work product. Given the laughably dishonest coverage of the Trump family’s legitimate business dealings that existed long before Donald Trump’s foray into politics, it is a virtual guarantee that Trump would never have survived a scandal even a fraction of the magnitude as the one Biden is now facing.

Yet the media has dutifully covered for the Bidens and looks poised to continue to do so through next year’s election. But as the bombshells pile up, the American people are beginning to take notice and backlash against Biden’s media enablers is mounting.

Refusing to question the FBI director and other top intelligence community officials after years of falsehoods, dodges, and obstructions of justice

Despite a slew of scandals involving abuses of power by the FBI and intelligence community in 2023, the media engaged in a coordinated campaign to cover for the Deep State bureaucrats targeting the left’s political enemies.

In January, it was revealed that an FBI field office in Richmond, Virginia, produced a memo labeling “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as a violent extremist threat. Once the memo became public, FBI headquarters in Washington quickly disavowed it and claimed that it was the product of one rogue field office and did not represent the views of the FBI overall.

The media predictably ran with this narrative and asked no further questions.

However, subsequent investigations launched by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee revealed that multiple field offices had coordinated to prepare the memo.

Furthermore, when Missouri Senator Josh Hawley questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray in perhaps one of the most devastating moments in the agency’s history, Wray admitted that there had been no disciplinary measures taken against the individuals responsible for creating the memo – further proving that a shameful lack of accountability pervades the nation’s highest law enforcement agency.

Still, the media were silent, despite the fact that Wray – whose falsehoods and obfuscations under oath seem to grow with every congressional appearance – was badly shaken after being caught red-handed by Hawley. Yet the journalistic class ignored this perfect made-for-TV moment out of blind loyalty to those in power.

The pattern of conduct here dates back to the beginning of Wray’s tenure, when—in the wake of an Inspector General report detailing FBI wrongdoing, cover-ups, and crimes during its “Russian collusion” hoax and “FISA warrants” scandals—Wray responded by saying he was going to call for “more training.”

From the start, Wray has stalled on looking into, investigating, or punishing wrongdoers – a position that now has led to complete loss of faith in his leadership by many members of Congress. This includes Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), who have still not been able to get answers on what they believe was an attempt by FBI agents to set up an intelligence briefing intended to lead to political embarrassment as described by The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.

The media also said nothing when pro-life activist Mark Houck was acquitted by a jury following a dawn raid by the FBI on his house last year. Instead of probing FBI leadership on why it felt the need to send more than a dozen heavily-armed agents to the suburban home of this father of seven, the media either ignored the story entirely or continued to demonize Houck and other pro-life activists.

Additionally, Wray’s FBI has refused to comply with multiple document requests from House Republicans, comprising one of the most glaring instances of obstruction of justice to date from a federal official. Again, the media has chosen not to cover the fact that an unelected federal bureaucrat is knowingly disobeying a duly-elected governing body.

Journalists once viewed it as their mission to protect dissenting voices against government attempts to impose censorship and prosecute the political opponents of the ruling party. But 2023 marked another year in which the media instead aided and abetted the efforts of those in power, primarily the leadership at the FBI, to target Democrats’ political enemies.

Refusing to probe the players in a dark legal cabal behind the lawfare and harassment brought against Donald Trump, elected Republicans, and everyday conservative Americans

From the four spurious indictments against Donald Trump to the media smear campaigns against Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Elon Musk, there appears to be a coordinated and well-funded effort to publicly destroy Democrats’ political enemies.

But to date, despite constant fearmongering about “dark money” in politics, the media has intentionally shielded left-wing groups involved in this effort from scrutiny. While attempting to destroy conservative organizations like the Federalist Society and Leonard Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust, the media has covered for notorious left-wing dark money groups like Arabella Advisors, which has been one of the primary money groups behind the left’s efforts to politicize the American justice system.

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a vehement Trump critic, has notably said regarding the Trump indictments in particular that he doesn’t “believe a Democratic prosecutor just happens to be attacking a Republican” and stated flatly that it’s “all politics.”

In an honest media ecosystem, there would be a far more robust effort to expose the forces behind the left’s schemes to destroy the conservative movement. It is a serious indictment of the media that no one in the legacy press is even asking who the major players are in this elaborate smear and defamation effort.

Covering for Harvard President Claudine Gay and the rest of academia amidst a proliferation of antisemitism and anti-American sentiment on college campuses

Even after refusing to say that calls for genocide against Jews violate the school’s code of conduct and being exposed as a serial plagiarist, Claudine Gay is still firmly entrenched as Harvard’s president – thanks in large part to the fact that the media has continued to cover for her.

Despite revelations that she lifted sentences and in some cases entire paragraphs from other authors, including in her 1997 PhD thesis, the media has parroted Harvard’s assurances that Gay has resolved the issues of “duplicative language” and that the issue shouldn’t require her to step down.

Moreover, mainstream outlets, instead of defending the right to free speech and media inquiry, have ignored the fact that Harvard is now threatening to sue The New York Post for defamation for reporting on the scandal.

Most major outlets have also downplayed the extent and severity of antisemitism on college campuses following Hamas’s attack on Israel. For instance, after one episode in which Jewish students were forced to barricade themselves in the Cooper Union in New York as a pro-Hamas mob attempted to break in, The New York Times described it as merely a “tense scene.”

Publishing Hamas lies and propaganda and pushing “moral equivalence” of Hamas and Israel

The New York Times’ recent publication of an op-ed from the Hamas-backed mayor of Gaza City is a perfect encapsulation of the media’s shameful moral equivalency and willingness to promote Hamas’s lies when it comes to the war in Gaza.

It’s worth remembering that a Times editor was forced out in 2020 after running an op-ed from Republican Tom Cotton, a sitting U.S. Senator. While Senator Cotton’s calls to end the violence then taking over American streets were apparently too much for the paper, parroting the propaganda of a politician backed by a terrorist group was not.

But even this outrage pales in comparison to the media’s willingness to report – based on claims from the Gaza Ministry of Health – that Israel had intentionally targeted the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza and killed hundreds of innocent civilians. The story quickly spread around the world, fueling antisemitic rhetoric and actions, before it was later confirmed that the rocket had actually struck a parking lot, not the hospital itself, and was an errant launch from Hamas fighters in Gaza, not Israel.

The saga of the al-Ahli Hospital and the publication of an op-ed by a Hamas leader again confirmed that the American media have completely abandoned any commitment to journalistic integrity and ethics in favor of pushing a partisan agenda – in this case one that makes excuses for terrorists and demonizes America’s only true democratic ally in the Middle East.

Refusing to report or investigate Fauci’s corruption

Over the course of 2023, House Republicans unearthed a number of scandalous details about former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, including allegations that he lied to Congress about his knowledge of gain-of-function research funded by U.S. taxpayer dollars at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Republican lawmakers also uncovered evidence that Fauci worked to discredit the so-called “lab leak” theory despite other scientists telling him early on in the pandemic that the virus “looked engineered.” Email correspondence showed that Fauci, along with publicly denouncing the lab leak theory, also urged his public health colleagues to not even look into it, even “prompting” publication of a scientific paper claiming to “debunk” it.

All of this amounts to one of the greatest public health scandals in history, and one that did immeasurable damage to democratic discourse, trust in America’s public health institutions, and U.S. national security. Yet the media has continued to treat Fauci as a godlike figure and refused to report on the evidence against him.

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There have been plenty of signs this year that the establishment press has entered a terminal decline. Future generations may see as a tipping point the moment when Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy used his platform during the GOP debate hosted by NBC News to turn the tables on moderator Kristen Welker and demanded that she apologize for her network’s dishonest coverage of the “Russiagate” hoax. Though perhaps no better indicator exists of the media’s current moral collapse than its inability to retract and apologize for the spectacular lies involved in its “Russiagate” hoax or its cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop just before the 2020 election.

Another sign of the media’s collapse this year was the growing influence of independent journalists who exposed so much of the media’s ethical decline and double standards—including figures such as Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and now Tucker Carlson. Meanwhile, the rise in popularity of alternative information outlets like Substack, The Daily Wire, The Blaze, The Daily Caller, and AMAC Newsline signaled a growing crisis of confidence in the mainstream media.

Among some of the most important work done by these journalists is that exposing the militant extremists in newsrooms like those of The New York Times and The Washington Post who intimidate editors and publishers into purging colleagues who may differ from a rigid left-of-center perspective on the news.

Regardless, signs point to 2023 being the year when the media’s corruption became too much. Now, a great reckoning may lie ahead for an American media that, while always liberal in its outlook, once believed in exposing, not colluding with government abuses of power.

B.C. Brutus is the pen name of a writer with previous experience in the legislative and executive branches.

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Theresa Coughlin
Theresa Coughlin
9 months ago

two comments: one: The self-titled “mainstream Media” is in the tank for the Democratic Party and is so hellbent in covering for them they have lost all credibility. Two: In order for the mainstream media to have suffered a moral collapse, they would have had morals in the firsr place.

Enuf Said
Enuf Said
9 months ago

Since media has no integrity, they can’t be humiliated. Sine they have no morals, they can’t be shamed. They are the best proponent that the evil Dims and foreign haters of America can be. How aperson that is a Christian can vote for the abortion party and these evil purveyors of pure filth, is just mind boggling.

Bill R
Bill R
9 months ago

By being an enabler, the mainstream media not only covers up corruption, they encourage even more. Until the cancer is treated, it will continue to grow, killing the patient.

Jan Satterfield
Jan Satterfield
9 months ago

This is to me is a whole lot bigger than a media with no accountability and responsibility. It’s about my fellow AMERICAN betraying and backstabbing every one of us. A job is a job until it’s acting in the destruction of our country in every level possible. Govt ,Education ,work ,jobs culture ,family community culture. Our country our families and our religion in CHRISTIANITY all being torn down from the very fabric of our cultural pillars and institutions. Those in govt actively conspiring with media and all other entities that seem hellbent on the chipping away of our freedoms to destruct our country. We have been so blessed to live our lives in freedom because of the sacrifices of our forefathers.
The biggest disappointment is what are we saying to all those young men who died horrible deaths to let us live our entire lives in freedom. We owe it to them to never ever give up.So we can leave future generations the gift they gave their lives for to give to us. May GOD BLESS each and every one of those young souls who made the ultimate sacrifice for each one of us.HONOR AND REMEMBER AND NEVER EVER FORGET!
“It’s a republic if we can keep it”We are all in this as one people “we the people”united we stand”.THE AMERICANS ARE COMING!!

Patriot Bill
Patriot Bill
9 months ago

Journalism is dead, AI is on the rise funded by the globalists. This isn’t an inflection point it is the trap closing.
Time to get off the grid

BACKWOODS
BACKWOODS
9 months ago

Pure evil has infiltrated media, education, government.
And to those that say there are good people in these entities why are those good people not standing up. Not standing up for this great nation just for a paycheck while this nation falls make those people just as much the problem.
Time to stand up even if it costs your job.

BCC
BCC
9 months ago

With all known corruption around and about Biden, is anybody going to do anything besides talk about it?

Dave K
Dave K
9 months ago

The “msm” is just the tip of the iceberg. What lies below is the foundation of moral erosions which began with removal of the Bible from schools, “innocent” sitcoms that started eroding the male role, songs that depicted false realities of life, teachers that became more and more radical – and the list goes on and on. It’s been a declared war on the moral fiber of this great country’s beginnings and it’s founders. Time for a resurgence of moral character accompanied by example. Without it, this country will breath its last if not corrected in 2024 elections. God Bless us all – and VOTE!

Garyk
Garyk
9 months ago

Here’s hoping the MSM outlets go out of business in 2024!
They are useless mouthpieces for the marxist democrat party ,every nut case fringe group and dishonest politicians wrapped in their own delirium!
GOOD RIDDANCE to ALL of them!

Ken
Ken
9 months ago

I have said this before in this comment section but after reading this article I will say it again. The main stream media is WORSE THEN THE DEMOCRATS. The Democrats are destroying this country, and there is not a single thing that they do that I agree with, but they have an agenda that they want to push on us, and they are doing just that. The MSM on the other hand should be truthful, honest, and most importantly unbiased. As the article states Biden and the rest of the democraps would never be getting away with their criminal activity if not for the MSM covering up for them. This is why I say they are worse. Its a shame that they will probably never be held accountable for the damage to our once great country they have caused.

Rosemary Loven
Rosemary Loven
9 months ago

There is conservative media, people like John Solomon, Dan Bongino and others. Fox News is generally good, but sometimes disappoints. “Conservative” politicians are either cowards, threatened with exposure or attacked. Otherwise, good article.

Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell
9 months ago

Media been collapsing since Trump hasnt been in office day `1

Thinking
Thinking
9 months ago

We can spend articles on this and tell the truth. But does it help? MSM is not a news investigative organization they are propaganda outlets for the dems ole Joe ultra left and deep state. Have you ever heard a positive statement from ole Joe or any other dept of the government without invoking Trump’s name or those Miserable MAGA people as ole Joe likes to call half of the voting population of America. The communist rule to convert a country to communism is have control of the Judiciary, law enforcements, Media and not to forget all those in the legislature making the laws and rules. Or not enforcing the rules of law. MSM is complicit in all that is and has happened in America. And are there any pushback of the American people? Are they called out? No the propaganda has worked beautifully for the dems don’t be surprised if this goes on for many more years to come
WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!!!!

Crispy
Crispy
9 months ago

There is no mainstream media, or “legacy” media. They have sold out, and are no more than propaganda outlets for the socialist democrats currently in power. They are now “all the propaganda that is fit to print”. If you listen to them and believe them, it is because you want to. That would be because your brain is now dead.

Gary J
Gary J
9 months ago

Against my better judgment, I saw an excerpt of a Chris Matthews interview: He lamented the ‘Trump cult’ and expressed confusion as to why conservatives are ‘so angry’. That’s laughable coming from him– since he (and others of his ilk, including our pathetic president) have thrown innumerable tantrums over the past 8 years.
Can he seriously be questioning why persons even remotely conservative are displeased with hard core Leftist media and politicians? For decades, we have been either ignored or maligned over and over. We don’t appreciate being smeared as ‘threats to democracy’, especially since sleazy politicians and their media lapdogs are obsessed with tearing this country down. The MSM very much wants all non-Leftists to just roll over and die.
That ain’t gonna happen!

Donna
Donna
9 months ago

I think the media’s morals collapsed long before 2023. The only thing different now is that they aren’t bothering to hide it from the public anymore!

S Richardson
S Richardson
9 months ago

I think the News Media is proving a Bible prophecy has come upon us. “A THOUSAND YEARS”, it has arrive. Revelations 20:3-10 “And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,”
There has not been a trustworthy news person or organization in any format since Walter Cronkite. Now it is about money and the Pulitzer Prize. But even that and the Noble Prize have lost their shine. It is about who can out bid their opponent to buy the prize. It’s all about greed and power, the “ME” factor. I don’t care if your Republican or Democrat or Marxist or a dictator. NOONE HAS THE RIGHT TO TELL you WHO YOU CAN OR CANNOT VOTE FOR OR AGAINST. NOONE HAS THE RIGHT TO TELL YOU THAT YOU MUST COMFORM THE STATIS QUO. This is America, Not China or Iraq. I will fly my flag and support the Constitution as it is written. Just because you take down a statue doesn’t mean the Civil War did not happen. Just because you investigate a person because they stand up for common decency and fairness and integrity doesn’t mean they will cowtail and run and hide. The Government, in power now, is going to do whatever it takes to stay in power and control the “Citizens” of this nation. God help us all. One thing I am pretty sure of. Heavan won’t be as full as I once thought. Taking communion from The Pope or anyone else does not mean you’re a Christian, nor does it mean you have a ticket to Heaven. God abhors hypocrites. You have to be true believer and follower and doer of the word. God word is the same yesterday’s ,today and forever. It does not change with a whim or because I want it to.

Kathleen Graham
Kathleen Graham
9 months ago

MSM & Liberal/Rhino’s are going to continue to have major problems because the more they lie, the better that lie stands out… kind of like a pimple growing full of pus. Eventually that pimple will explode all over them. I hope they choke on it.

Kathy L
Kathy L
9 months ago

I have never in my lifetime, seen a more corrupt system than the Liberal Socialist Democrats and their multiple, and disgusting policy of “Anything Goes.” ANYTHING! Up to and including “abortion” till the moment of birth!!!! This is only eclipsed by the fact that our own government is trying to actively kill us with the injection they call a vaccine. With all the data and proof that those injections have killed hundred of thousands of people, the government and media still are pushing them. My faith in what previously was the government “For the People, By the People”, the corrupt Healthcare Industry, and the Media accomplices that covered it all up, has not only left the building, it’s on a plane to a tropical escape from this unbelievable reality that used to be the American Dream!

Bruce
Bruce
9 months ago

I went to journalism school & owned several newspapers & have never seen such ethically challenged media morons…are they all on the payroll of Soros or simply stupid?

Texyz
Texyz
9 months ago

Good thorough article, Brutus. My personal thinking has evolved to a point, to realize that the propaganda media — the media that keeps SO many people in the dark with lies, or lack of reporting truth — that media must be dealt with FIRST, when we begin the process of taking back our country.
Pray for truth to prevail.

Philip Seth Hammersley
Philip Seth Hammersley
9 months ago

The media has been corrupt for 50+ years. They just used to hide it better. They would make snide remarks, cover certain stories and neglect others. Even the renown Walter Cronkite was obviously a Democrat.
Today’s “media stars” are totally blatant and don’t even TRY to be objective. As El Rushbo used to say, “Is the DIMM party running the media or is the media running the DIMM party?”

Luke
Luke
9 months ago

Ah but, the elephant in the room has also been conveniently ignored by the socialist media: the border that used to be between America and Mexico. You know. . .the one that nobody in the world recognizes anymore. Not worth covering by these useless oxygen thieves. EVERYBODY majoring in journalism should be required to pass the test to become an American. But, that won’t happen because CCP is financing American universities and manipulating indoctrination. Plan accordingly.

Fredrick
Fredrick
9 months ago

The media started a moral collapse 50 years ago and has just continued to sink lower and lower.

mark
mark
9 months ago

This is totally a piece of crap article and long winded at that the MSM has been totally for the left and against the truth and honesty for years and anybody with a brain knows it

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
9 months ago

I’m not optimistic of our press when (how many?) millions of people worldwide died, peoples lives turned upside down by governor dictates, vaccine mandates, supply shortages, or jobs and businesses lost by COVID and no one demands answers to WHY AND HOW it happened. The biggest story of the millennium and no journalist asks these questions…

Andrew P
Andrew P
9 months ago

In generations past, media outlets understood the vital role they played in holding government officials accountable in exposing wrongdoing by those in power. Journalists likewise prided themselves on never serving the interests of government officials or allowing themselves to be used as tools to advance a partisan agenda.

Has any of that ever really been true? Or was it just a popular myth promulgated by the Media? The myth may have been sustainable decades ago, when there was plenty of money to fund the Media. But today, all the money is on the side of the Leftist Narrative.

Cinncinatus
Cinncinatus
9 months ago

Although the leftist media being the Dems rearguard has reached another level recently this is nothing new. The IRS scandal of targeting conservative organizations during Obama’s time is as bad as anything Nixon did. And the sleazy Clinton foundation where Bill would get 100s of thousands for a speech to countries seeking a friendly ruling by the State Department makes the Biden graft and grift look like Monopoly money. not looking skeptically on the official line on Waco or Ruby Ridge or Richard Jewell are other examples.
if the leftist press feels something reflects badly on the left they run with it, the truth be damned. And the exact opposite for the stories about the left.

David Millikan
David Millikan
9 months ago

Excellent article. By the way, where is Hunter biden?

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
9 months ago

King George did less and we dumped tea into Boston Harbor. These days the press would label them “insurrectionists” as well. Our so-called “press” are nothing more than Bagdad Bobs for the DNC with KJP the Pied Piper.

anna hubert
anna hubert
9 months ago

A true journalism has been a thing of a past for long time Decades Totally now skewed to the left Worthless trash producing trash and proud of it

Granny26
Granny26
9 months ago

I stopped getting the newspaper a few years ago..news was old and too liberal-one sided. And I don’t watch national news on tv for same reason. I watch only local news…no politics.

Jackie
Jackie
9 months ago

I’m surprised that any of them are in business anymore – if it weren’t for Democrat voters who view their lying stories consistently and believe every word!!! The don’t believe in doing your own research nor do they believe that the mainstream media would ever lie to them or give out dis or mis information!!! I don’t trust them as far as I can spit and, therefore, I don’t watch them!!! It’s difficult to find news sources that don’t lie to you or have an obvious agenda about their reporting!!!

GTPatriot
GTPatriot
9 months ago

This disaster is caused by 24/7 cable news. It was certain to happen and its really amazing that the failure of cable news did not occur in the 90’s. The problem is that nonstop broadcasting cannot exist on 2-3 pieces of real news each day. Reporting real facts requires only 15-30 min per day even if it is done each hour. That leaves 23 1/2 hours per day for “opinion” and speculation which leads to lies. Simple. Huntley/Brinkley and Cronkite never had to deal with this since they broadcast only 30 minutes ( minus ad time) per day so they did not have time to discuss. Discussion isbad. I don’t need it.

Sally Duncan
Sally Duncan
9 months ago

Thank you, AMAC for this article. It should be shared far and wide, although I am aware there are those out there who choose to live under a rock.

Rich
Rich
9 months ago

Gee what a surprise. A moral collapse from an immoral industry. Good news: people are waking up in record numbers.

uncleferd
uncleferd
9 months ago

The illegitimacy of the “mainstream” media coverage of conservative individuals and entities is appalling, for all the reasons described in this article, and then some. Not only has the media been distinctly dishonest and misleading in their “coverage” of Donald Trump ( “Russia Collusion”, etc.), but they have also shielded criminals within our law enforcement community, such as James Comey, in his own sponsorship and cover-up of the misrepresentations of then-candidate Trump to the FISA Court in order to illegally surveil his Presidential campaign… one of the biggest politics-related crimes in U.S. history.
Obviously, our future well-being as a nation of free, non-oppressed citizens is at stake, so please donate to your republican candidate of choice, and, most importantly, if you see a fraudulent news article, PLEASE privide dissenting commentary to that publication and others. The filthy press in the US needs more daylight… and, sadly, it’s up to US to provide that.

Commentary
Commentary
9 months ago

Two thoughts:
1.Sickening/frustrating/ infuriating 2. frightening — very

Joanne4 justice
Joanne4 justice
9 months ago

This article describes the slimeball media AND the slimeball Democrap party very very well !

marty
marty
9 months ago

Sarah Palin had it right in ’08, calling the “media” the LAME-STREAM MEDIA ! They slobbered over O’Bama without even checking-out his credentials or background. He gathered illegal signatures and ballots in Chicago, got himself in as a state Rep. to vote “Present”, then as US Senator for 2 years then President, (Rev Wright and all ) So “Media Journalists ” not doing their jobs is not a new thing, business as usual ( for Lefties)

Russ
Russ
9 months ago

The ethical and moral collapse of the media can be explained by the 97% who identify themselves as liberal democrats. They aren’t journalists , they are liberal ideologists.

Michael
Michael
9 months ago

Hard hitting USA State of Media 2023 Summary – the Biden Crime Family Cover-up. You would think some individuals working over there would have huge guilt complexes, yet, if they speak up, they get cancel cultured. Rock and hard place squeeze. If Trump wins, I would create a new cabinet position ‘Media Fairness Czar’, and have a staff level person confront the continual misleading biased information (disinformation?) that is planned and pumped out over 90% of the media. In effect, the media and deep state are one. I would choose Vivek Ramaswamy for this important new role.

Glenn Lego
Glenn Lego
9 months ago

Mainstream media IS the coverup

Harry
Harry
7 months ago

The mainstream news(propaganda) media, founded and funded by the CIA, is dying a slow death. If it weren’t for the government psyops it would be pretty much like PBS or some other mindless timewasters at the airports and gyms

Thomas Wulf
Thomas Wulf
8 months ago

The media was once the watchdog for all Americans. Today they are but lapdogs for the Democrats. To see an institution reduced to such biased and pitiful reporting is a true reflection of the entire Democratic party!

Raymond Baker
Raymond Baker
9 months ago

Our media has become slavish boot lickers of the Democrat Party. They are no better than the brainwashed weasels who produced Pravda (“Truth”) back in their utopian Soviet Union. Shame, as the media has a sacred duty to chasten the powerful, to protect our Republic, exalted (for the moment) by our Constitution that they’d rather throw out because it was written by colonialist whites. They fail to realize that if their socialist dreams come true, they’d be the first lined up against that pockmarked concrete wall.

Richard Yowell
Richard Yowell
9 months ago

Most incomprehensible to me are those people who demonstrate intelligence in virtually every area of their lives, and who know the truth of all this article says, and still continue to recite the lies and vote Democratic.

wolverine70
wolverine70
9 months ago

The media has abandoned all pretense of objectivity or performing the profession in a manner worthy of the Constitutional protections it is afforded. I’m not suggesting those protections be removed, rather lamenting how corrupt the profession has become from that which our forefathers esteemed so highly.

Bernard Giroux
Bernard Giroux
9 months ago

God is missing from our lives, The nurturing of one of man’s basic characteristics, his soul, the spiritual side of the intellectual, physical and spiritual nature of man is forgotten and it is replaced with atheism, hubris and hedonism which rule man’s thoughts, since God is not there to provide a conscience and the additional issue of a lack of moral compass. This enables the “masters of the universe”, the untouchable elites, to control the “useful idiots” as they steer the world toward ultimate Marxists control, globally. The ultimate Road To Serfdom realized.

Kevin
Kevin
9 months ago

As a member of the “working media” (though on a local level as a radio journalist), I have always prided myself as reporting “down the middle”…and “fair” (It was ingrained to me in high school. No, I never went to college…to “J School”, and, frankly, I’m glad I didn’t). Over my 50 year career, I have worked with most of the major networks and wire services as a stringer. And I will admit, I am embarrassed at what I see and read from some of the networks and wire services today. The use of biased language in news reports, wire service reports that basically seem to abandon all pretense of “fairness”. And I am well aware that members of the public are getting angry at the media…on both sides of the political divide. We have found our lives being threatened…just as recently as last week (and by the way, the threat in this individual case did not come from a Republican). I live my work life behind electronic locks and entreaties to “not allow anyone who doesn’t work here and have a legitimate purpose for being here in the building”. And all because, I try…to tell the truth regardless of how the story lands.

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