{"id":2028899,"date":"2023-09-12T06:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T10:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-you-tell-the-difference-between-vogues-kjp-puff-piece-and-our-corporate-news-media\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T07:02:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T11:02:20","slug":"can-you-tell-the-difference-between-vogues-kjp-puff-piece-and-our-corporate-news-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-you-tell-the-difference-between-vogues-kjp-puff-piece-and-our-corporate-news-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you spot the contrast: Vogue&#8217;s KJP fluff vs. our corporate &#8216;news&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fcan-you-tell-the-difference-between-vogues-kjp-puff-piece-and-our-corporate-news-media%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=2028899&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Are Women&#8217;s Magazines Losing Their Credibility?<\/h2>\n<p>You\u2019ve probably noticed that the big women\u2019s magazines are garbage these days, \u2063putting men in \u200ddresses on their covers or glorifying obesity\u200b as \u201chealthy\u201d\u2063 or writing about the best lesbian sex \u2064toys (I\u2019ll spare you the link to that one!). Unsurprisingly,\u2063 Vogue\u2019s recent puff piece about President Joe Biden\u2019s struggling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-say-bidens-female-led-comms-is-a-first-trump-has-that-now\/\" title=\"Media Say Biden's Female-Led Comms Is A First. Trump Has That Now\">press secretary<\/a> isn\u2019t\u200d much \u200ccloser to a \u200dserious piece of journalism. But the worst thing about the fluff-filled feature \u2064is that it\u2019s\u200c practically indistinguishable from the coverage every leftist in politics gets \u200dfrom other corporate newsrooms, including those\u200b whose employees would fancy themselves a few rungs above Andie Anderson on the \u201cserious reporter\u201d\u2062 ladder.<\/p>\n<p>At the briefing podium, Karine Jean-Pierre has a \u201cquality of directness\u2063 \u2014 blunt,\u2062 with a touch of compassion,\u201d Vogue writer Mattie Kahn coos. She likes\u2064 \u201cbright colors and bold eye shadow.\u201d Her \u201ctechnique\u201d is to \u201cdisarm\u200c with \u200da smile, then lay out the facts.\u201d \u2064 <em>(A smile and the facts? Oh, why hasn\u2019t any other press secretary\u2063 ever thought of that!)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-83844374\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-956b3939ad702e8a1011f197ff667b84 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-956b3939ad702e8a1011f197ff667b84\"><\/div>\n<p>As in any good piece of storytelling, after endearing the heroine to\u200b you, this one introduces an antagonist: \u201cHouse Republicans\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>We get a heartwarming description of \u200cJean-Pierre\u2019s childhood \u2062and her journey into politics,\u2063 punctuated by glamorous \u200dphotos of her posing on the White House campus.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre is \u201cpictured here in her office\u200b in a Victor Glemaud dress,\u201d one caption informs us. \u201cTove dress. Khiry earring,\u201d reads another.<\/p>\n<p>We get a \u2063snapshot of her bookshelf, which\u200b includes \u201cGeena \u00adRocero\u2019s memoir of growing up as a\u2062 trans pageant queen in the Philippines,\u201d\u2062 an \u2063inclusion that\u2019s\u200d clearly supposed to paint her in a glowing light to\u2062 Vogue\u2019s\u200d audience. \u200dJean-Pierre \u201cis\u2062 so organized her pens have their own coral pouch\u201d\u200d \u2014 imagine! \u200bOf course, the piece doesn\u2019t\u2063 end without a dig \u200bat conservative\u2062 media for daring to notice \u201ca change in Jean-Pierre\u2019s word choice regarding whether\u200c or not President Biden was involved with his son Hunter\u2019s business dealings.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9e4a7b75d5448f42b8982b3e1110f498 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9e4a7b75d5448f42b8982b3e1110f498\"><\/div>\n<p>Watching Washington elites \u200dslobber over each other on the page is about as gross as it is on camera. And while sickeningly frothy confections like this profile are easy \u200denough to dismiss from sickeningly frothy publications like Vogue,\u200c it\u2019s a much bigger problem when the self-appointed \u201cserious\u201d media sound exactly the same.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s play a game: Take a guess whether these excerpts are from the likes\u2063 of\u2064 Vogue and Cosmo or from the \u201cDemocracy Dies in Darkness\u201d crowd!<\/p>\n<p>After the Biden-Harris inauguration, a fawning column recounted\u2062 \u201cthe fabulous\u2062 coats at\u2062 the inauguration,\u201d from \u201cJill Biden\u2019s sophisticated Markarian\u200d tweed\u201d to \u200c\u201cAmy Klobuchar\u2019s\u2063 \u2018big \u2063aunt energy\u2019 gold\u201d to \u201cNancy Pelosi\u2019s\u200d turquoise extravaganza\u201d to \u2014 my favorite \u2014 \u201cJanet Yellen\u2019s toasty-warm, weather-appropriate puffer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you guessed that was from\u2062 a corporate \u201cnews\u201d outlet \u2014 specifically, The Washington Post \u2014 you \u200cget a point! \u2062Strangely, when I googled \u201cMelania Trump inauguration,\u201d the top four results under \u2063\u201cNews\u201d were not about her fabulous coat but rather\u2063 about Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n<p>When Michelle Obama gave \u200ca speech, it was \u201clike an especially eloquent neighbor chatting over the back fence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Yep, that was also The Washington Post.)<\/p>\n<p>A biographical article in\u200c 2012\u200c described\u2064 Hillary Clinton as a \u2062\u201ctough and pragmatic leader, outspoken advocate for social justice and women\u2019s rights, and resilient and\u2062 intelligent politician.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(That was PBS.)<\/p>\n<p>How about this headline? \u2062\u201cAt the Met Gala, Hillary Clinton Pays Homage to Women\u2019s History.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(That\u2019s from The New York Times, but USA Today, which made a \u201cfact-check\u201d about the dress, also counts \u200cas a correct guess.)<\/p>\n<p>Read this excerpt and guess if it\u2019s from a disturbing passage of some internet fan-fic or a Pulitzer-winning publication:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>We hear papers shuffling, birds chirping, the \u200bvoices of an ethereal choir. A woman\u2019s hands \u2064drift across a policy document. As white light flares through a \u200cgarden window, Hillary Clinton\u200b appears. She wears a serene\u200b smile and a magenta blouse. It feels like she\u2019s back from the dead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, that\u2019s what The New York Times deems \u201cfit to print\u201d\u2062 these days.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another headline:\u2062 \u201c9 incredibly important photos of Joe Biden eating ice cream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(That was Business\u2062 Insider.)<\/p>\n<p>A\u200c piece humbly titled \u201cThe Ice-Cream Theory of Joe Biden\u2019s Success\u201d \u200bcontends that really, no one can find fault with\u200c Biden because he \u201cis vanilla in a world of pistachio and rocky road, unobjectionable to most people and\u200c unlikely to trigger\u2063 any allergies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Did you guess The\u2062 Atlantic? Another point for you! Of course, the author doesn\u2019t consider\u200c whether \u2064the\u2062 \u201cunobjectionable\u201d nature\u200d of the president \u2014 who\u2064 has peddled self-centered lies to wildfire victims and Gold Star families alike, invented an award for himself from a\u200c historic racist, and advocated for killing babies in utero, among other\u200b problematic behaviors \u2014 is\u2062 really just in the\u200b imagination of a deferential media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden is back after Covid, vacation and\u200b legislative victories, and so are his shades,\u201d announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-fact-checker-extraordinaire-daniel-dale-disappears-proving-that-facts-dont-matter-quite-as-much-in-bidens-america\/\" title=\"CNN\u2019s Fact-Checker \u2018Extraordinaire\u2019 Daniel Dale Disappears, Proving That Facts Don\u2019t Matter Quite As Much In Biden\u2019s America\">piece titled \u201c<\/a>The Return of \u200bAviator Joe,\u201d which painted Biden as a\u2062 presidential version of \u2064Tom Cruise\u2019s Maverick.<\/p>\n<p>(The New York Times, again.)<\/p>\n<p>In another instance of hard-hitting \u2063sunglasses journalism, one magazine ran an \u2062over-the-top cover illustration of a spry, airbrushed Biden wearing mirrored \u200cshades that reflect a diminished-looking Vladimir Putin whom, the headline informs us, Biden\u200d is \u201ctaking on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cosmo? Vanity Fair? GQ? Nope, that was Time.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, what we used to call our \u201cmainstream\u201d media\u200c exist to further the agendas \u2014 \u200dand often,\u200d the personal vanities \u2014 of a very particular political set. They no longer even \u200dtry to hide it. When Biden became embroiled in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-federal-prosecutor-reveals-doj-is-violating-its-own-policies-with-hunter-biden-plea-deal\/\" title=\"Ex-Federal Prosecutor Exposes DOJ's Breach of Policies in Hunter Biden Plea Deal.\">influence-peddling scandal<\/a> in which his son Hunter sold access to the then-VP for foreign cash, the media tried to cover for him by insisting it was really just a story\u200c about \u201ca father\u2019s love for his son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heck,\u2064 even Volodymyr Zelensky gets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-dean-msm-coverage-of-cuomo-was-puff-pieces-while-there-were-bodybags-piling-up\/\" title=\"FNC's Dean: MSM Coverage of Cuomo Was 'Puff Pieces' While 'There Were Bodybags Piling up'\">puff pieces<\/a> about his T-shirts!<\/p>\n<p>You \u2064should give legacy outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and\u2064 the \u200drest just as \u2064much weight as you do\u2062 to any millennial cat lady who\u2063 freelances for Vogue. Both media categories\u2062 cater to a class of unhinged, self-appointed elites\u200c who likely hate \u2063you for \u200bbeing a normal American. On \u200boccasion, you might find a good recipe or interesting photo slideshow \u2014 but they have wholly disqualified themselves from being a serious authority on anything more\u200b than that.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to real journalism. It&#8217;s disheartening to witness the decline of reputable women&#8217;s magazines, as they now prioritize sensationalism over quality content. Vogue&#8217;s article on President Joe Biden&#8217;s press secretary is just another example of their biased and shallow reporting. It&#8217;s a shame that such publications no longer prioritize integrity and meaningful journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":2028900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028899","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\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}