The Mainstream Media’s Tentacles Reach Further Than You Realize

Would you continue to watch our nation's favorite pastime baseball if you knew every call by the umpires was only going to favor one team? Of course not. Nobody wants to watch a fixed game when they know the result has already been determined before the game was played.

But that's how it is with the nation's news media. It is one of the numerous reasons no one is watching the news anymore and it is also the cause behind the rising national discord.  Viewers know the stories are rigged for a liberal point of view. So, regardless if a news story is true, the information is not being trusted. With the press putting not only their thumb, but their entire body weight on the scale in favor of the far-left Democrats, there are no more umpires holding both teams accountable. That was the traditional role of the media and why both parties hated the media. But, not any longer. There stems the growing anger and vitriol we see daily.

Long gone are the days of news anchors like Walter Cronkite being called the “most trusted man in America.” With no umpires calling balls and strikes fairly, Democrats are allowed to get away with anything and everything while Republicans are tarred and feathered for jaywalking. There is no way to return to a civil debate over policy differences when one side is always favored and supported by the media, who are supposed to be our political umpires and be totally neutral.

The media has always had a left-leaning tilt, but now reporters have become Democrat operatives with absolutely no journalistic integrity. Since the days of Bill Clinton's presidency, this problem has mainly been with the major media outlets and daily newspapers. But now, even the local media outlets are in the tank for the Democrats. For example, last fall in the Massachusetts' Bristol County sheriff's race, George Soros and his allies pumped in hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat a pro-borders and pro-law and order sheriff. They worked hard to circumvent the Commonwealth's financial disclosure laws. But when the dots were connected, the media turned a blind eye. Can you imagine if the Trump PAC had targeted the Democrat and funneled the money through four different organizations to avoid the exposure? We all know too well the media wrath the Republican would have faced. In response to the dead silence from the media on the Soros funding, the sheriff's campaign launched ads exposing it. Liberals like Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren, who have a major problem telling the truth, called it a “dog whistle” ad.  What was the dog whistle? According to Democrats mentioning George Soros' name is now considered anti-Semitic. With Warren and Markey making their phony allegations, of course, The Boston Globe jumped all over the story of antisemitism going even so far as to refer to Soros as a “Jewish philanthropist” as if he has had nothing to do with funding the progressive political movement here in the United States and abroad. They never mention his far-left activities are considered so extreme that both Poland and Hungary outlawed his ability to make donations in those nations or that many of his candidates here face recalls.

While the Globe's leanings are well known, calling Soros a “Jewish philanthropist” really took the cake. They proved once and for all, there is absolutely no glimmer of hope of ever having a rational conversation or a reasonable story from that paper.

But the problem did not end with the Globe. The left-leaning has now infiltrated small-town papers where they hide stories from the public like it is Hunter Biden's laptop. In that same sheriff's race, his Democrat challenger was found by the Massachusetts Labor Board to have harassed a firefighter's wife as mayor. The decision against the Democrat mayor arrived 15 days before the election and during the middle of early voting, so it should have been front-page news. Rather than the media doing their jobs, the local papers ignored the story! Now had that been a Republican, what do you think would have happened? Wall-to-wall coverage of course. Fortunately, one radio station ran with the news. When it was brought to the attention to the local papers, they still did not cover it. We are left to conclude the media is only concerned when a woman says a Republican harassed her. It is OK when a Democrat does it. Being persistent, the campaign called the papers asking why no coverage? One of the reporters said they had no clue about the ruling despite it being on the radio. That reporter is sure to win a Pulitzer. However, that same paper picked up Warren's and Markey's dog whistle allegations about George Soros on Twitter within 30 minutes. So, the sheriff was falsely labeled anti-Semitic for exposing the truth on Soros while the Democrat mayor was given a free pass on threatening a woman.

Unfortunately, the heavy slant doesn't end in the news department for the local papers. In another race, Democrats were allowed to run attack ads while the Republicans were only allowed to run positive ads. That's right, GOP candidates were not allowed to attack their Democrat opponents even with paid advertising. How is that for freedom of speech? And being unbiased?

We all know the media bias, but we can no longer just say that's the way it is. We need to take action on many different fronts to level the playing field with earned media. Stay tuned for the next column on how we resolve this problem.

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