The Media Shows Their Double Standard On Trump Hack

It is important for the press to learn from previous mistakes, but there is a double standard at work when it comes to coverage of policy and the Trump hack.

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The Media’s Double Standard On Covering Policy

The media say the election should be about policy, and the only way readers can know about policy is if the media tells them. Never mind that the same media spent the entire Biden administration literally mocking Biden over the fact that people didn’t understand the good things he’d done for them.

When pushed on this, these folks replied that it’s not their job to inform voters about President Biden’s economic policies. They claimed that was the job of the White House, which the White House failed at, according to these (usually NYT) reporters. So, policy isn’t really their thing, either?

By the way, while the legacy press was preoccupied with snide tittering and self-congratulating (there are suggestions that part of their culture is dunking on \Democrats/the left - not just the politicians, but the actual readers, so punching down onto the only paying subscribers has become their culture), Biden was busy fighting inflation by taking on corporate greed and monopolies.

On Wednesday, inflation fell below 3%.

Elections are supposed to be about the economy, to hear these people tell it. The economy is more important than freedom and democracy, they tell us. But do you want to guess what their response was to this good news?

Low inflation is now bad, because other problems. Not even a beat to celebrate that what they’ve all warned about nonstop actually hasn’t happened.

In case you’re thinking that’s normal, here’s how Politico and the NYT headlined Trump’s 2019 economy:

There haven't been “Biden has a strong economy to proclaim” titles even as the U.S. has led globally in economic recovery post pandemic.

After the debate that Biden “lost” and mere ten days after the NYT suggested Biden has Parkinson’s, the President gave a press conference during NATO in which he deftly discussed nuanced matters of foreign policy and war. The media ignored his grasp of policy (we will never hear Donald Trump even approach Biden’s level of agility and ease when it comes to discussing foreign policy). They had already written that episode, you see, and the President’s narrative arc was that he is OLD. It’s a reality TV show to the media; not an election upon which the fate of our nation hangs.

No, this same arc does not apply to the 78-year-old guy who is in clear cognitive decline with decompensating mental health on display. That guy is getting a pass, because he made the media so much money in his first season as “president.”

This tells us that the reasons cited for wanting a press conference or an interview aren’t legitimate, in that they aren’t values the media upholds with all candidates.

The Media Only Wants To Talk To Harris About Trump

Days ago, the media got a chance to ask Harris some questions and they spent the entire time asking her about Trump’s accusations and lies, as if they want her to do their job for them, and then give them an interview so she could be asked more questions about Donald Trump’s lies, like she’s running to be Trump’s minder.