{"id":2380992,"date":"2024-12-17T12:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-advisor-admits-nyt-wapo-are-in-the-tank-for-dems\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T12:39:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:39:36","slug":"kamala-advisor-admits-nyt-wapo-are-in-the-tank-for-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-advisor-admits-nyt-wapo-are-in-the-tank-for-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Advisor Admits NYT, WaPo Are In The Tank For Dems"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fkamala-advisor-admits-nyt-wapo-are-in-the-tank-for-dems%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=2380992&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>Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;\u2064 deputy campaign manager, Rob \u200dFlaherty, stated that there is little benefit for Democrats to engage with major news outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post, as \u200btheir readers are already predisposed to support the party. Flaherty explained that \u200bthe Harris campaign\u200b has decided \u2062to forgo interviews with these mainstream press outlets because their data indicated that the\u2064 readership \u200cof these publications already favored Harris. He emphasized\u2064 that, in a general election context, speaking to these outlets provides no added value since their \u200caudience is already aligned with the \u200bcampaign.<\/p>\n<p>The commentary critiques the mainstream media for\u200d its\u2063 biased reporting,suggesting that it\u200d has been excessively supportive of candidates like \u200cHarris. It points to specific headlines that \u200dsensationalized Donald Trump&#8217;s behavior during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-warn-of-unique-threat-election-ballots-to-list-no-labels-as-third-option-in-these-us-states\/\" title=\"Democrats raise concerns over a &quot;unique threat&quot; in certain US states: the inclusion of a &quot;No Labels&quot; option on election ballots.\">town hall\u2064 event<\/a>, arguing that such coverage\u2064 is \u2063misleading and \u200ccontributes to the media&#8217;s failure to\u2063 present balanced views, thereby reinforcing the audience&#8217;s preexisting support for\u200c certain political figures.  <\/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>Vice President Kamala Harris&rsquo; deputy campaign manager admitted there is zero value in Democrats talking to outlets like The New York Times (NYT) and The Washington Post (WaPo) because those outlets are already in the tank for the party.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Flaherty told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/12\/15\/2024\/kamala-harris-digital-chief-on-democrats-losing-hold-of-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Semafor&rsquo;s Max Tani<\/a> that the Harris campaign decided to skip interviews with major corporate press outlets because data showed readers of outlets like the NYT and WaPo already supported Harris.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s just no value &mdash; with respect to my colleagues in the mainstream press &mdash; in a general election, to speaking to the New York Times or speaking to the Washington Post, because those [readers] are already with us,&rdquo; Flaherty said.<\/p>\n<p>You don&rsquo;t say?<\/p>\n<p>The propaganda press went to great lengths to try and drag a subpar candidate like Harris across the finish line. So<em> of course<\/em> readers of The Times or WaPo were &ldquo;already with&rdquo; Harris &mdash; the information they&rsquo;re ingesting gives them no other choice.<\/p>\n<p>Take for example this October <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/14\/us\/politics\/trump-town-hall-dj-music.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a> from The Times: &ldquo;Trump Bobs His Head to Music for 30 Minutes in Odd Town Hall Detour. &rdquo; Or this WaPo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/10\/14\/trump-music-sways-town-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a>: &ldquo;Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Both headlines were sensational &mdash; a presidential candidate who randomly stops during a town hall to dance. The only problem was that the headlines were entirely fabricated. Then-candidate Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/24\/democrats-peddle-conspiracies-about-trumps-age-in-desperate-final-push\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paused<\/a> his October Pennsylvania town hall after a pair of medical emergencies occurred in the crowd, with Trump waiting until emergency officials had taken care of the situation before resuming the town hall.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the propaganda press&rsquo; cover-up of the massive <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/15\/media-pounce-to-cover-up-kamala-harris-plagiarism-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plagiarism scandal<\/a> in which the Manhattan Institute&rsquo;s Christopher Rufo <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/p\/kamala-harriss-plagiarism-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that a 2009 book co-authored by Harris contained several passages that appear to have come from other websites and published works. As my colleague Shawn Fleetwood explained, &ldquo;In an effort to run damage control for Harris&rsquo; flailing campaign, the anti-speech New York Times dispatched three &lsquo;journalists&rsquo; to pen an article aimed at undercutting Rufo&rsquo;s reporting.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For a scandal this big, The Times went with the headline: &ldquo;Conservative Activist Seizes on Passages From Harris Book.&rdquo; A quick glance from the headline would never indicate to readers that Harris was involved in such a scandal &mdash; which is exactly <em>why<\/em> the headline was written as such. (The Times later admits in its reporting that passages cited by Rufo &ldquo;appeared to have been taken partly from other published work without quotation marks.&rdquo;).<\/p>\n<p>No loyal reader of either outlet could have had a different outcome of opinion other than &ldquo;Kamala is the only choice for president&rdquo; because they were being spoon-fed propaganda.<\/p>\n[[<strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/07\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-60-minutes-scotus-and-doj-edition\/\">Here&rsquo;s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: &rsquo;60 Minutes,&rsquo; SCOTUS, And DOJ Edition<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And yet despite the left-wing press&rsquo; best efforts, Harris still lost. Certainly their coverage only helped Harris &mdash; but it was not enough to drag her across the finish line. Flaherty himself admitted just that, saying while Democrats have long been in cahoots with the media &mdash; the Harris campaign failed to use independent and nontraditional outlets to spread their message at a time when the masses are shifting <em>away<\/em> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-millions-of-americans-want-to-secede-from-the-union\/\" title=\"Why Millions Of Americans Want To Secede From The Union\">left-wing corporate press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Democrats have historically had these really close relationships with institutional media, institutional culture &mdash; Hollywood and the traditional press. There&rsquo;s this entire cultural ecosystem that the Trump campaign did a really good job of cultivating over a long period of time,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance, for example, both sat down for separate interviews with podcaster Joe Rogan. Meanwhile, Harris declined to sit down for a full interview with Rogan over reported concerns of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9292db59-8291-4507-8d86-f8d4788da467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leftist backlash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Harris wouldn&rsquo;t have needed to do the Rogan podcast or other non-traditional outlets if the corporate press wasn&rsquo;t so obviously biased. If the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">left-wing media stopped acting<\/a> as the propaganda wing of the Democrat Party and instead started acting like journalists and truth-tellers, they wouldn&rsquo;t have lost the trust of millions of Americans. But as Flaherty admits, The Times and WaPo aren&rsquo;t in the business of truth-telling, they&rsquo;re just the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harris&#8217; deputy campaign manager sees no value in talking to NYT or WaPo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2380993,"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\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.40.16-AM-e1734453723625-1024x576.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32438,32490,33263,32171],"class_list":["post-2380992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-kamala-harris","tag-media-bias","tag-new-york-times","tag-political-commentary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.40.16-AM-e1734453723625-1024x576.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380992","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380996,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380992\/revisions\/2380996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}