{"id":2342732,"date":"2024-09-18T09:16:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T13:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-dont-hate-corporate-media-nearly-enough\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T09:18:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T13:18:56","slug":"you-dont-hate-corporate-media-nearly-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-dont-hate-corporate-media-nearly-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don&#8217;t Hate Corporate Media Nearly Enough"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fyou-dont-hate-corporate-media-nearly-enough%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=2342732&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--><p>Americans&#8217; trust in news media has reached an all-time\u2063 low, with journalists ranked \u200dpoorly in a recent survey.\u2064 Critics, including media commentator Michael Walsh, argue that corporate media has become increasingly biased, \u200despecially\u200c against former President Donald Trump and his supporters. In his new book, &#8220;Against the Corporate Media: Forty-two\u200d Ways the\u200d Press Hates You,&#8221; Walsh \u200dexamines \u2063how journalism has\u200d degraded\u200d from a respected profession to\u200d a platform for elitist biases\u2062 that\u2063 prioritize a \u200dleftist agenda\u200d over\u200d ethical reporting. <\/p>\n<p>Walsh discusses the dangerous implications \u2062of corporate media narratives,\u200b particularly when they frame political events in ways that incite unrest or violence, as seen with the coverage surrounding Trump\u2019s \u2064recent\u2063 assassination \u2062attempts. He highlights the shift\u200d in journalism since Trump&#8217;s rise, suggesting \u200bthat media outlets \u200dhave\u2063 abandoned\u2063 objectivity and fairness, further driving the \u200bdivide\u2063 between the public and the press. Walsh&#8217;s critique sheds light on the current media climate and its failures to fulfill its \u2063journalistic responsibilities. The\u2063 book contains \u2063various essays \u2064that reveal the troubling trends in \u200cmedia behavior\u2062 and its impact on \u2062American democracy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Americans&rsquo; trust in the news media has plummeted to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/512861\/media-confidence-matches-2016-record-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all-time lows<\/a>. On the faith scale, journalists rank somewhere between carnies and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/608903\/ethics-ratings-nearly-professions-down.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">members of Congress.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Corporate media, with their war on former President Donald Trump &mdash; and anyone who even remotely supports him &mdash; deserve your loathing. In fact, legendary reporter and media critic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encounterbooks.com\/authors\/michael-walsh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Walsh<\/a> says you probably don&rsquo;t hate the contemporary American journalism collective nearly enough.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You think you can, but you haven&rsquo;t plumbed the depths of how much you can loathe these people,&rdquo; Walsh told me in the latest episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/michael-walsh-on-all-the-ways-the-press-hates-you--61977159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;The Federalist Radio Hour&rdquo; podcast.<\/a> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The award-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encounterbooks.com\/authors\/michael-walsh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">journalist, author and screenwriter<\/a> is editor of and contributor to the eye-opening new book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Against-Corporate-Media-Forty-two-Press\/dp\/B0CWYYX1CS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Against the Corporate Media: Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You,<\/em><\/a>  a collection of more than two dozen essays from some of the sharpest minds of our time. The book tracks how journalism devolved from a meaningful blue-collar trade to a &ldquo;consensus&rdquo; profession of &ldquo;bubble&rdquo; elitists who have abandoned editorial ethics, even the First Amendment, for the &ldquo;higher duty&rdquo; of promoting and protecting the leftist agenda.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;He Provokes Them Simply by Existing&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>While Walsh and his co-authors drew from a deep well of shameful journalist behavior in filling the book, it was, of course, published before the corporate media clown show of the past several days. The essays could not capture the accomplice media <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/17\/the-fbi-should-visit-the-new-york-times-about-instigating-more-anti-trump-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blaming Trump&rsquo;s campaign rhetoric for a second attempt on his life<\/a> or writing off multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/17\/bomb-threats-used-by-media-to-excuse-second-trump-assassination-attempt-have-no-validity-at-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complaints of Haitian refugees<\/a> doing very concerning things to Springfield, Ohio&rsquo;s pet and avian population, but they do explain how we got here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NBC News anchor Lester Holt, joining a chorus of his corporate media colleagues, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/16\/alleged-trump-attacker-praised-nbcs-lester-holt-who-blamed-trump-for-attempt-on-his-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told viewers on Sunday<\/a> that the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/15\/gov-desantis-announces-independent-investigation-into-second-trump-assassination-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">second assassination attempt <\/a>against Trump in two months &ldquo;comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-didnt-lower-temp-between-trump-assassination-attempts\/\" title=\"Dems Didn&#039;t \u2018Lower Temp\u2019 Between Trump Assassination Attempts\">amid increasingly fierce rhetoric<\/a> on the campaign trail itself.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walsh satirically took aim at the absurd framing of the story from the Trump-hating press. It proved to be an encore performance from the same confederacy of dunces that demanded (conservative) politicians <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/15\/democrats-did-the-opposite-of-lower-the-temperature-between-trump-assassination-attempts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;lower the temperature&rdquo;<\/a> after a gunman in July shot Trump in the ear, killed one man and seriously injured two others at a Pennsylvania campaign rally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A 78-year-old man really shouldn&rsquo;t wear short skirts like that out in public. It&rsquo;s a provocative thing that he does. But then again, he provokes them simply by existing,&rdquo; Walsh said. Holt and crew are employing corporate media&rsquo;s most beloved &mdash; and bogus &mdash; context device, something the New York Times started years ago, according to Walsh. The trick is to cover an event by dragging in &ldquo;something extraneous &hellip; just so you can make your larger narrative.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Doocy, after KJP AGAIN calls Trump a &ldquo;threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many more assass*nation attempts on Trump until the President, Vice President, and you pick a different word other than &lsquo;threat?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Your question is incredibly dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They&rsquo;re not going to stop.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RClO7peHf1\">pic.twitter.com\/RClO7peHf1<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WesternLensman\/status\/1836128893855551540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>&lsquo;How the Heck Are You Supposed to Cover Him?&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Journalists have long practiced leftist activism in their reporting, but things went to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/military-life\/defcon-levels.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> DEFCON 1 <\/a>when Trump surprised nearly everyone, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-if-durham-filing-true-its-a-lot-bigger-than-watergate-people-need-to-go-to-jail\/\" title=\"Cruz: If Durham Filing True, &#039;It&#039;s a Lot Bigger Than Watergate&#039; -- People Need to Go to Jail\">corporate media collective<\/a> in particular, by winning the GOP nomination and, ultimately, the White House in 2016.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A New York Times front page declaration of journalistic war in August of that year set the tone for corporate media coverage to come. The piece, penned by leftist media columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allsides.com\/news-source\/jim-rutenberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jim Rutenberg<\/a>, was headlined, &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/08\/business\/balance-fairness-and-a-proudly-provocative-presidential-candidate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump is Testing the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism.<\/a>&rdquo; The solution, Rutenberg argued, was to give up on objectivity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation&rsquo;s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?&rdquo; he feverishly wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Rutenberg effectively <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/media\/291436-defending-the-indefensible-journalistic-bias-at-the-new-york-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opined<\/a> to Trump-hating colleagues who didn&rsquo;t need much coaxing. He conceded that it might not always &ldquo;seem fair to Mr. Trump or his supporters,&rdquo; but who cares about fairness when the world is watching?<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is journalism&rsquo;s job to be true to the readers and viewers, and true to the facts, in a way that will stand up to history&rsquo;s judgment. To do anything less would be untenable,&rdquo; Rutenberg asserted. Any illusion of fairness was shattered in the column; most living on the corporate media commune followed his advice to the letter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Where It Gets Very Dangerous&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Things, as fatigued and frustrated Americans well know, have only gotten worse since.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The media is wholly in the tank in a way that it wasn&rsquo;t even when we started this book a year and a half ago,&rdquo; Walsh said. &ldquo;We were guessing that sometime around the election the media would disgrace itself. We just had no idea how badly they would disgrace themselves.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Really badly, it turns out. From memory-holing July&rsquo;s assassination attempt to the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/13\/abc-news-refuses-to-say-if-it-will-disclose-its-debate-as-in-kind-contribution-to-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ABC-moderated debate<\/a> that proved an extension of Vice President Kamala Harris&rsquo; presidential campaign to accusing Trump of triggering would-be assassins, it seems as bad as it can get.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But wait &hellip; there&rsquo;s more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since Covid and the 2020 election, the practitioners of selective objectivity have been working with the Deep State&rsquo;s version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-establishes-a-ministry-of-truth-disinformation-governance-board-partisan-11651432312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ministry of Truth<\/a> to silence &ldquo;disinformation,&rdquo; &ldquo;misinformation,&rdquo; and &ldquo;malinformation.&rdquo;&nbsp; Walsh said they&rsquo;ve traded in the First Amendment for conformity and consensus. They&rsquo;ve failed to heed, the reporter added, what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/research-learn\/catos-letter-no-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cato&rsquo;s Letter No. 15<\/a> argues is so essential to free government, failing further to see that &ldquo;where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call any thing else his own.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is the key to the importance of freedom of speech, and yet it is being abandoned in pursuit of what I call in our book&rsquo;s opening essay a &lsquo;higher loyalty,&rsquo;&rdquo; Walsh said. &ldquo;Just as [former FBI Director] James Comey said he had a higher loyalty than the actual law of the United States of America, journalists have a higher loyalty beyond the First Amendment, and that&rsquo;s where it gets very dangerous.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser\/\" title=\"Trump Knew \u2018100 Percent\u2019 He Was \u2018Fighting for the Little Guy\u2019: Former Top Trump Economic Adviser\">award-winning investigative reporter<\/a> and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans&#8217; confidence in the news media has reached unprecedented lows, with journalists now viewed as being on par with carnivals and Congress in terms of trustworthiness. The corporate media&#8217;s aggressive stance against former President Donald Trump and his supporters warrants disdain. Renowned journalist and media analyst Michael Walsh argues that people likely do not harbor enough contempt for today&#8217;s American journalism landscape. In a recent episode of &#8220;The Federalist Radio Hour,&#8221; Walsh stated, \u201cYou think you can, but you haven\u2019t fully grasped how much you can detest these individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walsh is the editor and contributor to a revealing new book titled *Against the Corporate Media: Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You*, which features over two dozen essays from some of today\u2019s most insightful thinkers. The book examines how journalism has deteriorated from a respected blue-collar profession into an elitist &#8220;consensus&#8221; field that has forsaken editorial integrity\u2014and even the First Amendment\u2014in favor of advancing a leftist agenda.<\/p>\n<p>While Walsh and his co-authors drew upon numerous instances of unethical behavior within journalism for their book, it was published prior to recent events showcasing corporate media&#8217;s absurdity. For instance, they could not address how certain outlets blamed Trump&#8217;s campaign rhetoric for an assassination attempt against him or dismissed serious allegations involving Haitian refugees harming local wildlife in Springfield, Ohio; however, they do provide context on how we arrived at this point.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News anchor Lester Holt echoed sentiments shared by other corporate journalists when he remarked that Trump\u2019s second assassination attempt within two months occurred amid increasingly heated campaign rhetoric. Walsh mockingly criticized this framing by the anti-Trump press as part of a pattern where they previously urged conservative politicians to \u201clower the temperature\u201d following violent incidents linked to Trump rallies.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists have long engaged in left-leaning activism through their reporting; however, things escalated dramatically after Trump&#8217;s unexpected victory in 2016. A New York Times article from August 2016 declared war on journalistic objectivity regarding Trump\u2019s candidacy\u2014arguing that if journalists believed he posed significant dangers due to his actions and affiliations, then abandoning objectivity was justified.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, according to Walsh, media bias has intensified significantly: \u201cThe media is wholly in the tank now more than ever.\u201d He noted that while they anticipated disgraceful behavior around election time when writing their book over a year ago, they were unprepared for just how far it would go.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to downplaying serious threats like assassination attempts against Trump or turning political debates into extensions of partisan campaigns against him, there are broader concerns about freedom of speech being compromised under pressure from what Walsh describes as conformity-driven agendas\u2014trading First Amendment rights for adherence to prevailing narratives.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh emphasizes that this pursuit leads journalists away from essential principles necessary for free governance: \u201cWhere one cannot claim ownership over their own voice or opinions,\u201d he warns, \u201cthey risk losing ownership over everything else.\u201d This abandonment poses significant dangers as journalists prioritize what he calls a &#8220;higher loyalty&#8221; beyond constitutional protections\u2014a sentiment reminiscent of former FBI Director James Comey\u2019s claims about prioritizing higher loyalties than legal obligations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2342733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-18-at-12.07.43-AM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[35048,36489,33295,36362,36174],"class_list":["post-2342732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-corporate-media","tag-journalism-ethics","tag-media-criticism","tag-media-literacy","tag-public-perception"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-18-at-12.07.43-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342732","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2342733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}