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\"\"<\/a>American Institute for Economic Research<\/a>, July 31, 2021<\/h3>\n

Will More Media Bias Save Democracy?<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n
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The Washington Post\u2019s <\/em>media columnist is summoning saviors because \u201cour democracy is under attack<\/a>.\u201d Margaret Sullivan wants Washington journalists to adopt a \u201cpro-democracy\u201d frame and \u201cstart being patriotic.\u201d\u00a0 Reporters should cease focusing on \u201cwinners and losers\u201d in political skirmishes and instead ask \u201cwho is serving the democracy and who is undermining it.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Sullivan\u2019s view, media coverage has been fatally handicapped by purporting to accurately portray political developments. Instead, it is time for reporters to take sides on the barricades.<\/p>\n

Sullivan\u2019s prescription for the press corps is reminiscent of a corporation that is almost bankrupt and gambles everything on a desperate \u201cHail Mary\u201d pass. Last month [June], the Reuters Institute reported that only 29% of Americans<\/a> trusted the news media \u2013 the lowest rating of any of the 46 nations surveyed. A Gallup poll last year revealed that \u201c86 percent of Americans<\/a> believed the media was politically biased.\u201d Practically the only folks who don\u2019t recognize the bias are the people who share the media\u2019s slant.<\/p>\n

But according to Sullivan, the problem is that some journalists are still betraying the nation by excessively focusing on the facts. That\u2019s the same perspective of Stanford University journalism professor Ted Glasser, who recently asserted that journalism should \u201cfree itself from this notion of objectivity\u201d and become \u201covert and candid advocates for social<\/a> justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sullivan anchors her column with a quote from Norm Ornstein, a fixture of Washington think tanks since the Calvin Coolidge administration. Ornstein warned that \u201cbalanced treatment of an unbalanced phenomenon distorts reality.\u201d How can we know Ornstein is a reliable sage? After Biden was inaugurated, Ornstein tweeted, \u201cI am so relieved, so happy, and so proud that this wonderful, grounded, decent<\/a>, compassionate and patriotic man is our president.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sullivan\u2019s own columns reveal her belief that journalists should glorify high-ranking government officials. Last month, thousands of pages of heavily-redacted emails from Covid Czar Anthony Fauci exposed his flip flops on the benefits<\/a> of mass panic and the efficacy of face masks and lockdowns. They also revealed his concerns to squash any allegations that Covid-19 emerged from a Chinese lab bankrolled by the U.S. government. Fauci responded to the controversy by sainting himself and ludicrously proclaiming that \u201c Science and the truth<\/a> are being attacked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sullivan raced to the rescue with a column headlined: \u201cOnly in our anti-truth hellscape<\/a> could Anthony Fauci become a supervillain.\u201d\u00a0 Sullivan, like the clueless policeman on the South Park<\/em> cartoon, assured readers that \u201cthere is nothing to see here, move along.\u201d Sullivan concluded: \u201cNo one should claim that Fauci is infallible\u201d \u2013 but worshiping him regardless is vital for democracy.<\/p>\n

Sullivan\u2019s recent column was sparked by her rage over the press coverage of the first hearing by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s panel on the January 6 Capitol clash. Sullivan lamented, \u201cThe Democratic leadership has been trying to assemble a bipartisan panel that would study that mob attack on our democracy<\/a>.\u201d Sullivan summarized the hearing as \u201csomber, powerful, pointedly non-political testimony from four police officers attacked during the insurrection.\u201d \u201cNon-political\u201d except for the message that some protestors were \u201cfascist traitors<\/a>,\u201d as Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) declared. The congressional panelists and police concurred that all of the 9,000 protesters near the Capitol were \u201cterrorists\u201d \u2013 a label that apparently now applies to anyone in the same zip code when political violence occurs.<\/p>\n

The hearing offered demagoguery in lieu of disclosure and was choreographed to give congressmen a chance to cry for television cameras.<\/strong> Neither Sullivan nor anyone at that hearing voiced any concern over the continued refusal to disclose 14,000 hours of surveillance<\/a> videos taken inside the Capitol on January 6 \u2013 key evidence that could settle some of the controversies around that day. The panelists ignored the reports by the Inspector General and others that exposed the stunning failures of readiness by the FBI, Capitol Police, and other agencies on January 6. Nor were there any questions about what role, if any, FBI undercover agents or informants may have had in that day\u2019s mayhem. It was as if the recent revelations of the FBI\u2019s role in masterminding the purported plot<\/a> to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer never occurred.<\/p>\n

Sullivan probably considers her own work as a model for responsible advocacy. One week before the election last year, Sullivan tweeted her approval of a Post<\/em> column on \u201cJoe Biden, Hunter Biden and the politics of unconditional love\u2026 Understated and incisive<\/a>.\u201d That column, by the Post<\/em>\u2019s Monica Hesse, exonerated the presidential candidate for his son\u2019s crimes and concluded that \u201cJoe Biden might be the dad\u201d that \u201cAmerica dreams of having.\u201d During his decades in the Senate, Biden was renowned for championing punitive crime bills to impose his favorite cure: \u201cLock the S.O.B.s up<\/a>!\u201d (<\/strong>Sullivan will join Hunter Biden<\/a> on the roster of guest speakers this Fall for a Tulane University course on \u201cMedia Polarization and Public Policy Impacts.\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A better headline for Sullivan\u2019s recent column would have been: \u201cThe Hunter Biden Laptop Recipe for Saving Democracy.\u201d A<\/strong>fter revelations began pouring out last fall from the laptop that Hunter Biden left at a Delaware computer repair shop, Twitter and Facebook banned reposts of the New York Post<\/em> exposes on the laptop\u2019s contents. National Public Radio and many other outlets derided the laptop excerpts as a Russian disinformation campaign<\/a>. The mainstream media succeeded in minimizing the story\u2019s impact on the election, regardless of subsequent revelations confirming the laptop\u2019s authenticity<\/a>. Perhaps such selectivity helped inspire Sullivan\u2019s triumphal column just after Biden\u2019s victory on how the media \u201csaved democracy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

How can journalists tell \u201cwho is serving democracy?\u201d Most Washington journalists reflexively presume that being pro-government is the same as being pro-democracy.<\/strong> The New York Times<\/em> reporter covering the Justice Department, Katie Benner, evinced this mindset when she denounced Trump supporters as \u201cenemies of the state<\/a>\u201d in a tweet this week. Benner believes journalists must take action \u201cif a politician seems to threaten the state.\u201d (Prior to joining the Times<\/em>, Benner wrote for the Beijing Review<\/a>, owned by the Chinese Communist Party<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Sullivan never explains how Washington reporters became qualified to serve as Grand Inquisitors for Democracy, casting judgment on every politician and proposal. Most reporters have the same level of intellectual curiosity as the average lottery ticket buyer. Reporters react to the word \u201cbipartisan\u201d like cocaine addicts desperate for another political virtue signal.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sullivan\u2019s panacea is also suspect because most Washington press poohbahs show more affection for Leviathan than democracy. The Washington Post<\/em> devotes far more newshole to publishing leaks from FBI officials than to exposing FBI abuses<\/strong>. Washington Post<\/em> columnist Eugene Robinson whooped \u201cGod Bless the \u2018Deep State<\/a>\u201d \u2013 touting his blind trust in federal agencies with vast secretive powers. Earlier this week, Washington Post<\/em> columnist Max Boot gushed that \u201cSaudi Arabia is being more progressive<\/a> than America\u201d because the government was forcing Saudis to get vaccinated. (Boot later deleted that tweet.)<\/p>\n

Sullivan is seeking to inflame the zealotry of a group that is already fanatically in favor of authoritarian Covid policies. Vox senior correspondent Ian Millhiser yesterday [Thursday, 7\/29] urged Congress to financially destroy anyone who does not get jabbed: \u201cCongress should increase the income tax rate<\/a> on taxpayers who are unvaccinated, and who have no legitimate religious or medical reason to be unvaccinated, to 99 percent.\u201d Molly Jong-Fast, the editor-at-large for the Daily Beast, endlessly sneers at anyone who refuses to mask up, deriding Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) for refusing to wear a mask on the House floor for choosing \u201cone of the stupidest hills to die<\/a> on.\u201d Massie had Covid and cites a bevy of scientific studies to show that he, like other Covid survivors, have natural immunity and do not need a vaccine. But much of the Washington press corps has zero tolerance for any argument for not forcing everyone to get vaxxed.<\/p>\n

Instead of describing journalists who focus on facts as \u201cpolitical reporters,\u201d Sullivan urges \u201ccalling them \u2018government reporters.\u2019\u201d Actually, labeling most Washington reporters as \u201cgovernment lackeys\u201d would be far more apt. It would be criminally na\u00efve to expect such lackeys to cherish Americans\u2019 rights and liberties more than their own paychecks and prestige.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American Institute for Economic Research, July 31, 2021 Will More Media Bias Save Democracy? 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