In a yr the place political discourse reached new heights of absurdity, and the reality typically felt like a rarer commodity than gold, the company media’s position in distorting public notion turned manifestly evident.
Nowhere is that this extra apparent than with the discharge of media watchdog Grabien’s prime ten moments in 2024, the place legacy journalists dropped all pretense of impartiality and clearly sided with Group Democrat.
The video serves as a stark reminder of how far the media has strayed from its foundational obligation to tell moderately than manipulate.
From the well-known “cheap fakes” spin on President Joe Biden’s repeated cases of cognitive decline, to a brazen cover-up of that decline, to misinformation concerning President Trump and his allies, 2024 stands because the yr {that a} decades-long stage of bias within the media lastly was outed … and soundly defeated.
Check out media malpractice this previous yr.
SUPERCUT!
The ten Most Mortifying Media Moments of 2024
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— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 27, 2024
Whereas the media needs you to suppose that President-elect Donald Trump is a routine liar, it’s the members of the cult of journalism who’re truly the purveyors of misinformation.
Politifact labeled Trump’s and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance’s feedback about Haitian migrants as their ‘Lie of the Year,’ however everyone knows what the true lie of the yr was.
The institution-wide cover-up that Biden was not, and couldn’t, run the nation as a consequence of his apparent cognitive decline.
The media spent months spreading a Pravda-level propaganda effort telling the general public that video proof they had been seeing repeatedly of Biden bumbling and stumbling his method via public appearances, unable to formulate ideas, and searching like a dementia affected person wandering the streets misplaced, had been truly manipulated movies.
“Cheap fakes,” they known as them.
“One of the saddest parts of carrying water for the DNC is how the corporate media, by extension, also found itself having to carry water for Joe Biden,” Grabien studies. “In July, someone at the White House had the bright idea of labeling viral clips of Biden’s dementia as ‘cheap fakes.’”
“Being cheap fakes themselves, the thought manipulators at CNN/MSNBC/etc. all dutifully began employing this term themselves.”
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The ‘cheap fake’ part backfired spectacularly, principally as a result of it was a story developed simply previous to the well-known presidential debate through which Biden’s decline might now not stay hidden.
You recognize, the one the place Biden went on a meandering monologue about God is aware of what and ended his ideas with, “We finally beat Medicare.”
Trump would later quip, “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence, and I don’t think he knows what he said either.”
Biden: “Making sure we make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with covid, excuse me, with umm dealing with everything we had to deal with. Look, we finally beat medicare.”
Trump: “Well he’s right. He did beat medicaid. Beat it to death.” pic.twitter.com/FL152ERLiR
— Greg Value (@greg_price11) June 28, 2024
“One of the problems of being a professional liar in the age of the internet is that it makes your job especially challenging,” Grabien writes. “For four years, Biden’s White House caretakers were always careful to orchestrate his appearances so he had no opportunity for spontaneous, on-camera thinking.”
“Despite so much careful handling, ultimately it’s impossible to script a dementia patient, and Biden provided his critics with countless clips of humiliating senility.”
Earlier this month, the Wall Road Journal launched a bombshell article that lastly shattered the facade, revealing the extent to which the Biden White Home has been deceiving the general public for 4 years (even earlier than his official inauguration) by making an attempt to hide the President’s evident cognitive and bodily decline from the general public eye.
It didn’t work. Biden was compelled out of the race as a result of no quantity of mendacity by the media was going to forestall folks from understanding what they had been witnessing with their very own eyes and ears.
There are clearly additional examples of the media failing to do their supposed job in 2024, however essentially the most egregious by far was the colossal cover-up that, for 4 years, America had no chief.
Did the video miss every other cases that caught out in your thoughts?
