Politics and Media Bias
The Washington Post’s Journalism Is Dying in the Light
George Neumayr
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February 28, 2017, 12:04 am
Its liberal partisans can’t get their anti-Trump stories straight.
The Washington Post, under the open and pretentious partisanship of its owner Jeff Bezos, recently unveiled a new slogan, “Democracy dies in darkness.” Liberal journalists like to flatter themselves with such adages even as they conceal their own devious practices from the light of scrutiny.
Their convulsions over Trump are due in large part to the light he is shining on their biases. They had grown accustomed to serving as unquestioned propaganda ministers for the American public, but now he is spoiling their fun. To quote MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski, it is “our job,” not Trump’s, to “control exactly what people think.”
One of the media’s favorite methods of controlling what the public thinks is to disguise editorializing as front-page “news.” Upon closer inspection, these stories often turn out to be partisan speculation, sloppy opining, or ideological misdirection.
https://spectator.org/the-washington-posts-journalism-is-dying-in-the-light/
