{"id":2100499,"date":"2023-11-16T07:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T12:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-arent-quite-hackish-enough-for-the-biden-white-house\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T07:36:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T12:36:29","slug":"the-media-arent-quite-hackish-enough-for-the-biden-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-arent-quite-hackish-enough-for-the-biden-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Media not hackish enough for Biden White House."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fthe-media-arent-quite-hackish-enough-for-the-biden-white-house%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=2100499&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>When\u200c will The New York Times finally\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-isnt-quite-hackish-enough-for-the-biden-white-house\/\" title=\"Media not hackish enough for Biden White House.\">stop pulling punches<\/a> and go\u2063 after Donald\u2064 Trump?<\/h2>\n<p>This is \u2063the question Joe Biden\u2019s campaign asked this week. \u200c\u201cFor the\u2062 political press corp\u200d (sic)\u200d \u2014especially our friends\u200c at the Gray Lady,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/biden-campaign-complains-ny-times-coverage-urges-paper-more-critical-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> the White House in a campaign email, \u2062\u201cit\u2019s time to meet the moment and responsibly inform the electorate of what their lives\u200c might look like \u2064if the leading \u2064GOP candidate for president is allowed back\u2064 in \u2064the WH.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The New York Times is, indeed, a friend. It \u201cmeets the \u2064moment\u201d all the time. \u2062So, no, \u2063Biden isn\u2019t working the \u2062refs here.\u200c He\u2019s\u2062 demanding obedience. And the fact that the White House can\u2062 brazenly petition a supposedly free\u200c press to \u2063join his campaign\u2062 effort \u2064tells us a lot about how little the contemporary Democrat cares \u2064for a free press.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Recall \u2063that\u2064 on the rare occasions that the Times slips up \u200band writes an honest headline, celebrity journalism \u201cprofessors\u201d and leftist Twitterati swarm and demand it be changed \u200cto something \u200bmore suitable. More often than \u200bnot, the Times obliges them. They will oblige this time, \u2063as well.<\/p>\n<p>In this instance, the White House \u200bdidn\u2019t even profess they wanted a factual \u2062error corrected,\u200c which would be understandable. Biden was upset that the Times published a piece offering a quite banal, \u2062if inconvenient,\u2064 observation about Trump and the \u200bissue \u200bof abortion.<\/p>\n<p>In\u200c a piece headlined,\u200b \u201cWhy Trump\u200c Seems Less Vulnerable Than Other Republicans,\u201d\u2063 Ruth \u200bIgielnik points \u200cto existing polling data that \u201cseems\u201d\u2063 \u2014 lots of hedging going on in the piece \u2014 \u201cto have effectively neutralized \u200cabortion as an issue during the Republican primary\u201d with \u201cvagueness\u201d and attempts \u201cto occupy a middle ground of sorts.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>This is inarguable. Trump, despite all the bluster, is perhaps \u200bthe most ideologically moderate and \u200dmalleable major Republican candidate to run for\u2063 the \u2062presidency in a very long time. As the piece mentions, the \u200dformer president has taken virtually every position on abortion during his political life. And while it\u2019s true he\u2019s \u200bnominated \u2063constitutionalist jurists, as a candidate, he now claims that Florida\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-tucker-carlson-confronts-desantis-on-alleged-flip-flopping-on-ukraine\/\" title=\"Tucker Carlson questions DeSantis about Ukraine stance.\">pro-life\u200b law<\/a> is \u200da\u200d \u201cterrible mistake.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And\u200c because Trump, who has a substantial\u2062 lead \u2064in the polls, is already \u200brunning a general election campaign, while \u200chis GOP primary adversaries are compelled \u200bto shore \u200bup \u2064conservative support, \u200dhe \u200dcan moderate positions \u2014\u2063 like every candidate ever.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if the Times were responsibly informing the electorate, \u2062it would let everyone know that \u201cdevout Catholic\u201d Joe Biden supports\u2062 unfettered \u201caccess\u201d to abortion until the \u200dbaby\u200d hits the \u2064crib.\u2064 Instead, we are inundated\u2062 with the\u2063 narrative that says radical abortion \u2064\u201cbans\u201d are sinking\u2064 the GOP nationally. And the White House\u200d demands this notion\u200d be pushed at all times, with no exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as the left stopped debating\u200c and knighted \u200bthemselves sentinels \u200cof \u201cdemocracy,\u201d they had their justification to act in \u201cundemocratic\u201d ways. The notion that there is an overriding duty to campaign for Biden to \u2064save \u2064the \u200bnation rather than \u2064engage in\u2064 mundane traditional journalism \u2063is \u2064widely held on the\u2062 left.<\/p>\n<p>The other day, John Harwood \u2014 who, until recently,\u200c was\u200b LARPing as \u200ca \u2064journalist\u2064 at NBC \u2014 posted that the media had a duty to \u201cbetter convey 2 realities: \u2013the US economy is doing well, not poorly \u2013Biden at 80 \u200bis handling the \u200cjob \u200beffectively right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some people \u2014 sentient\u2064 people \u2014 might argue the latter contention\u200b is dubious while the\u2064 former one is highly debatable. Those debates should be left to pundits. \u200dBut Harwood, like the celebrity \u201cjournalism\u201d\u200c professor and institutions that \u2064crank out credulous activists rather than skeptical \u2064reporters, believes\u200b he has a higher purpose than letting \u2062voters \u2062figure these things \u200bout for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the White House\u2062 feels comfortable not only demanding the press ramp up efforts to help it win a presidential election but also directing private outlets to censor speech and creating a Ministry of Truth \u200cto\u2063 ferret out alleged \u201cmisinformation\u201d and threaten those who\u2064 do not comply.<\/p>\n<p>As\u200c for what the\u2062 White House might \u200b\u201clook like\u201d if Trump is \u201callowed back\u201d? Insane, I \u2062suspect.\u2064 It\u2019s possible Trump, like Biden,\u200d will also circumvent the legislative branch and engage \u200din unprecedented abuse of executive power, blatantly ignore the Supreme Court\u2062 to try\u2062 and compel Americans to pay off the loans of strangers, allow tens of billions of dollars to flow to an Iranian terror states that murders Americans, sic the\u2062 Justice Department on his\u200d political enemies, and demand journalist \u2063take dictation from \u200cthe\u2063 White House.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully not.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What does the \u2064White House\u200c hope to achieve by controlling the narrative of the Times&#8217; coverage?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ite\u2062 House wants the Times to continue pushing this narrative.<\/p>\n<p>The question then becomes, why is the White House so concerned with the Times&#8217; coverage of Trump? Well, it&#8217;s\u2064 simple. \u200cThe New York Times \u2063has a significant influence on public opinion, and the White House wants to control\u2063 that\u2062 influence. They want the\u200b Times to paint\u200b Trump in the worst light \u200bpossible, to ensure his chances of re-election are diminished.<\/p>\n<p>But this raises a bigger concern about the state of journalism today. The fact that the White House\u200c feels comfortable petitioning the press to join their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-arent-quite-hackish-enough-for-the-biden-white-house\/\" title=\"Media not hackish enough for Biden White House.\">campaign effort speaks\u2063 volumes<\/a> about the lack of independence and integrity in the media. Journalism should be\u200c about seeking the\u200c truth, holding those in\u2064 power accountable, and informing the \u2063public objectively. But it seems that these ideals have been compromised in favor of political agendas.<\/p>\n<p>The Times, like many other mainstream \u200dmedia outlets, often bows\u200b down to pressure from left-leaning activists and politicians. They change headlines, omit or downplay certain facts, and craft narratives that align with their \u2064own agenda. This is not \u2064responsible journalism. It is \u2064propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>The recent incident with the \u2062Times and Biden&#8217;s campaign only highlights \u2064this \u2062issue further. Biden didn&#8217;t want a correction to an\u200d error; he wanted\u200c the \u200cTimes to change their perspective on Trump and abortion.\u2064 It is alarming that a presidential candidate can dictate the narrative of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-shadowy-group-that-ran-the-federal-governments-censorship-scheme\/\" title=\"Meet The Shadowy Group That Ran The Federal Government\u2019s Censorship Scheme\">supposedly free press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for the New\u200c York Times, and \u200bother media outlets, to reevaluate their priorities. They need to rediscover\u200d their commitment to truth and objectivity, and resist the pressure to conform to political agendas. Journalism should inform, educate, and provoke thought, not serve as a mouthpiece for those in \u2063power.<\/p>\n<p>As consumers of news, we also have a role to play. We\u200d should demand accountability from\u2063 the media, \u200cand seek out \u2063alternative sources of information that prioritize truth and objectivity.\u2063 We should not settle for\u2062 biased reporting or the manipulation of facts. Our democracy relies on a free and independent \u2063press, and we \u2062must do our \u2064part to protect it.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200dconclusion, the New York Times, and\u200b the media as a whole, should stop pulling punches and start holding all politicians accountable, regardless of their\u2064 party affiliation. It is their duty as journalists to inform the electorate honestly and objectively. The public deserves nothing less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When will The New York Times confront Donald Trump without holding back? Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign raised this question, urging the political press corps, especially the Gray Lady, to responsibly inform and meet the current moment, as stated in a campaign email from the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2100500,"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-2100499","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\/2100499","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\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2100500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}