The Corporate Media Finally Have A Working Plan To Beat Trump
Despite their roots in reality, there is no doubt that these crises -- and the White House and Senate's attempts to tackle them -- would be reported differently if Hillary Clinton were president.
By Christopher Bedford
June 30, 2020
It took more than five years, but the corporate media finally have the tools and strategy to successfully defeat President Donald Trump.
The corporate media have these, mind you, despite the Democratic Party, whose foibles, stumbles, and misfires over those same five years have only complicated efforts, kicking off with a disastrous 2016 defeat and eventually culminating in a near-invisible and increasingly senile presidential candidate stumbling through a script in his basement.
“In the three months [since Joe] Biden launched his stay-at-home campaign from his cellar TV studio, his lead has grown to double-digits in national polls while Trump has pinballed from crisis to crisis,†a June 24 Politico piece notes. In the article, titled “Dems Warm To Biden’s Bunker Strategy,†the candidate’s three months of not holding a press conference is framed as just an attack from the president and his allies, while the facts of that accusation are not challenged.
The article is illuminating not just because reporters ostensibly covering the presidential race are writing like it’s occurring in an fishbowl they and their colleagues don’t largely control, but because the article stands out as one of the very media acknowledgements of this disappearing act in any corporate media outside of Fox News. Even a Saturday Atlantic article on how little voters know about Biden is bereft of a single criticism of the campaign’s active press-exclusion strategy — or of the absence of the vast majority of national political reporters, who appear to not be doing any actual reporting on their candidate.
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