September 13, 2024
The Debate at the Kitchen Table
By John F. Di Leo
ABC staged a debate this week. A presidential debate. Ostensibly between former president Donald J. Trump and former senator Kamala Harris, but in actuality between Trump and the partnership of Harris and ABC.
There is always media bias. To some extent, unconscious media bias is unavoidable. But we don’t expect it to be blatant; the viewer doesn’t expect antics like we saw this week, when the ABC moderators repeatedly declared Mr. Trump’s statements lies, and never called out Ms. Harris’s blatant lies.
We call it “fact-checking” today, a term coined in social media for when our high-tech overlords punish a writer for stating something with which the gurus disagree. But it’s not really fact-checking, is it? It’s an invasion of a conversation, a denial of free speech, a thumb on the scale. In the case of a presidential debate, it’s electioneering.
And it virtually invalidates the value of our constitutionally protected free press in this process. ABC’s refusal even to try to act as an impartial host rendered this debate useless.
So let’s look instead at the other debates — millions of them — going on in America, both that day and every day in 2024.
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