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Media Bias? Call It by Its True Name: Regime Propaganda

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Elderberry:
Powerline by  Steven Hayward 8/13/2024

John and Scott below provide examples of the media’s slavishness to the Democratic Party, which is now so obvious that attributing it to bias, or calling it “fake news,” doesn’t go far enough. Let’s call it for what it is: regime propaganda, worthy of the old Soviet Union, or Orwell’s no longer fictional world.

John notes the Time magazine cover about Kamala Harris, for which she refused a request for an interview. But they still slobbered all over her. Maybe she was right to refuse an interview; she might have said something dumb enough to have had to be reported.

But let’s contrast Time‘s Kamala-slobber cover with an older Time cover:



And CBS News isn’t even trying to disguise its propaganda function:



And CBS doubles down on this propaganda function by saying Republicans are “accusing” Harris of stealing the idea:



As the old saying goes, when you watch CBS, you see BS.

More: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/08/media-bias-call-it-by-its-true-name-regime-propaganda.php


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