I am reaching my contempt overload limit from the excuses and spin the mainstream media enemies of the people are floating to slime out of their culpability for the Biden dementia cover-up.
Now Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of “The Atlantic,” among the worst of the Trump-Deranged, Democratic Party totalitarianism-enabling Axis media, tried gaslighting us with this one during an interview with CNN Ethics Villain Jake Tapper on PBS’s “Washington Week”: See, allegations that the news media covered for Biden show a “misunderstanding of journalism”! Reporters need “credible sources” to report anything, see, so without “insiders” admitting on the record that the alleged President was a shambling vegetable, reporters couldn’t report it.
Let me get this straight: what everyone could see and hear since 2019 and earlier couldn’t be reported, couldn’t be verified, and couldn’t be investigated even though it was self-evident that the “insiders” were lying, making excuses about “one bad night,” Joe’s “stutter” and “cheap fakes,” and even when a mountain of circumstantial evidence like the avoidance of interviews, Cabinet meetings and unscripted appearances was in plain sight?
Sure. Whatever you say, Jeff. The news media never reports unsubstantiated “facts” without iron-clad “verification.” Like, say, “Hand up, don’t shoot!,” right?
Former Ethics Alarms idol Ken White of Popehat works for this guy. Ken was once a truth-teller, someone whose integrity I admired and tried to emulate. How sad.
All of a sudden they needed names on record once Biden was president? They certainly didn’t have such high standards when Trump was in office the first time.
When reporting on Trump, any and all anonymous sources are credible, even if it’s your imaginary friend Petey. It’s important to make a super bombastic claim, and add a teensy-weensy “if true” at the end of it. And even though it’ll get debunked in two weeks, if not sooner, publish a correction, a-la “it’s all BS, but other than that, true” on page 20. Then, rinse and repeat, and receive your Pullitzer award soon enough. Journalisming! (Cue Leslie Stahl saying “It can’t be verified, it’s not verifiable.” This was her telling Trump about the Hunter’s laptop on 60 minutes)
All they want is single party rule. Whatever it takes…