{"id":1095291,"date":"2021-12-07T15:59:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1095291"},"modified":"2021-12-07T15:59:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:59:44","slug":"collusion-media-outlets-meet-with-white-house-to-reshape-coverage-of-biden-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/collusion-media-outlets-meet-with-white-house-to-reshape-coverage-of-biden-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"COLLUSION: Media Outlets Meet With White House To \u2018Reshape\u2019 Coverage of Biden Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcollusion-media-outlets-meet-with-white-house-to-reshape-coverage-of-biden-administration%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1095291&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"31.45\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Journalists, other liberals agree: Press went easy on Trump, too critical of Biden<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1328362826-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1328362826-e1638906357681.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1328362826-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1328362826-768x512.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 December 7, 2021 3:45 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"57.778768233387\">\n<p>White House officials have been hosting secret meetings with journalists in an effort to &#8220;reshape&#8221; coverage of the Biden administration that they view to be unfair.<\/p>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/view.newsletters.cnn.com\/messages\/16388473618894d60cc03816c\/raw?utm_term=16388473618894d60cc03816c&amp;utm_source=cnn_Reliable+Sources+-+December+6,+2021&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;bt_ee=O54bZGFbM3aVNTxtxWGCPc25bBuY3hp3EjrEmc%2BpMH22EOPnwXiCqFkTEvS3cR4mWrajVqSEdKUyvnLcdUIFOg%3D%3D&amp;bt_ts=1638847361891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p><em>The White House, not happy with the news media&#8217;s coverage of the supply chain and economy, has been working behind the scenes trying to reshape coverage in its favor. Senior White House and admin officials\u2014including NEC Deputy Directors David Kamin and Bharat Ramamurti, along with Ports Envoy John Porcari\u2014have been briefing major newsrooms over the past week, a source tells me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The officials have been discussing with newsrooms trends pertaining to job creation, economic growth, supply chains, and more. The basic argument that has been made: That the country&#8217;s economy is in much better shape than it was last year. I&#8217;m told the conversations have been productive, with anchors and reporters and producers getting to talk with the officials\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>News of the media&#8217;s collusion with the White House comes nearly a week after White House reporters sang &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; to Press Secretary Jen Psaki, and just days after <em>Washington Post<\/em> columnist Dana Milbank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/12\/03\/biden-media-coverage-worse-trump-favorable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> that &#8220;the media treats Biden as badly as\u2014or worse than\u2014Trump.&#8221; The column was widely praised and promoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JRubinBlogger\/status\/1467989063785451526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">journalists<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/morgfair\/status\/1468077070110453760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebs<\/a>, and other <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greenhousenyt\/status\/1467137014327914504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">liberals<\/a>&nbsp;who are of the deranged view that media outlets have been unfairly critical of Biden and were not critical enough of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>According to preeminent liberal nerd Nate Silver (and common sense), however, the analysis Milbank cited in support of his argument is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NateSilver538\/status\/1467856792390668292\">complete crap<\/a>.&#8221; We all know collusion is bad, but it is especially dangerous for democracy when journalists and government officials are the ones doing the colluding. Shame on them.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Journalists, other liberals agree: Press went easy on Trump, too critical of Biden  Getty  Andrew Stiles \u2022 December 7, 2021 3:45 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}