September 1, 2024
CNN, Washington Post: A Modern Press Gang
By Clarice Feldman
Press-gang is a term used to describe the use of troops working to round up and press free men into military service. Looking at the work of Dana Bash at CNN and the entire Washington Post staff, I think we need another definition: People posing as journalists working to bend our minds to untruths designed to fluff up the Democrats. From the absurd Dana Bash “interview” of Kamala Harris, her first since being nominated to the highest office without ever having received a single vote, to the slavish coverage in the Post, it’s clear they cannot defend the Democrats’ unpopular policies. Instead, they work to hide them, and treat the entire presidential campaign as if it were the selling of new and “improved” laundry soap. (Maybe they’re just auditioning for the ad agency jobs they hope to get when readers and viewers permanently tune them out and their jobs are abolished.)
It’s not a particularly new development. Years ago, a friend was an editor at Time when it was substantially more prestigious and influential than it is today. He told me senior editors bet they could make anyone they chose elected president. They chose Jimmy Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer, made him the second coming in their pages and it worked. Today, I doubt that any single publication or television news staff has that degree of power, but working in tandem they still try.
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