"THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SUPPOSEDLY IMPARTIAL NEWS MEDIA" - Roger Aronoff / March 17, 2017 / http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/17/the-truth-about-the-supposedly-impartial-news-media
The Washington Post, which accused The Daily Signal of being beholden to political interests, is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire who actively supports liberal causes. (Photo: iStock Photos)
A recent Washington Post article by media reporter Paul Farhi raises the alarm that the White House Correspondents’ Association has not once, but twice, assigned a Daily Signal employee, Fred Lucas, to be the pool reporter, i.e., the reporter who serves as the “proxy for the rest of the press corps.” The Daily Signal is the “news and commentary site” founded by the conservative Heritage Foundation, he reports, labeling it an “advocacy organization.” “In other words,” writes Farhi, “the news that reporters received about the vice president came from a journalist employed by an organization with a vested interest in the direction of White House and federal policy.”
The idea that the so-called mainstream press somehow stands above their own vested interests, or, put another way, against their own agenda, is laughable at best.
The distinction between biased advocacy news organizations and the supposedly independent press has not only blurred—it has become obsolete. Organizations such as The Daily Signal and Breitbart are just as capable of speaking truth to power as media outlets such as The New York Times, the Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC.
In fact, it is these supposedly impartial news organizations that have continued to lobby for the leftist agenda. When President Barack Obama was in office, they not only worked to legitimize and enhance the Obama legacy, ignoring scandal after scandal, but they even tried to influence the Supreme Court to uphold Obama’s signature legislation, Obamacare.
The deceit of the media didn’t stop there. Under Obama, the media consistently portrayed the economy as recovering even though the labor participation rate remained at abominable levels. A vast number of the jobs supposedly created in the Obama years were part-time, many lasting for just weeks at a time. The unemployment rate dropped to under 5 percent only because millions of people gave up looking for work, not because the economy was booming. Moreover, Obamacare prevented millions of people from getting a full-time job based on the disincentives built into Obama’s signature program.
A case in point is the coverage of the Congressional Budget Office’s report scoring the proposed Republican legislation intended to replace Obamacare. The headlines and stories focused on the “24 million” people who would “lose health insurance coverage by 2026.” But as The Weekly Standard pointed out, the CBO report doesn’t actually say that. What it does say is that “the total number of individuals insured under the Republican plan would eventually be 24 million fewer than the total insured under Obamacare” by that time.
Ironically, it was just a year ago that The Weekly Standard reported that the CBO had been off on another one of its projections on Obamacare by, you guessed it, 24 million people. That error was the average number of people who would have private insurance during any month in 2016, and it took just three years from the 2013 projection to show that the CBO overestimated it by 24 million. In addition, more than six years after the passage of Obamacare, there were still 29 million people who had no health insurance at all, even though the law required it. The price for not buying insurance is a fine, later redefined as a tax, in order to have it ruled constitutional.
The point is that the so-called mainstream media will grab onto whatever they can to put Republicans and conservatives on the defensive, so they are forced to explain how they can be so cruel as to cause 24 million people to “lose their insurance.” They rarely offer anything close to the proper context to help people understand what the Republicans are trying to do.
How many tens of millions of people have seen their premiums and deductibles skyrocket, or lost their ability to keep their doctors or their policies, or have been unable to find a full-time job because of the employer mandates imposed by Obamacare? Do those numbers matter? Apparently not.
The conservative media also have an agenda, but at least they are generally transparent about it.
The leftist, mainstream media pretend to be neutral, biased only for a good story. But they rarely acknowledge that they deceitfully work to cover for the policies and scandals of the Democrats, while working to destroy conservatives and their policies, treating them as cruel and venal.
And in the heat of the 2016 campaign season, WikiLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 revealed the Democrat Media Complex, where reporters would have cocktails with the Hillary Clinton campaign. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos previously worked for the Clintons and later gave donations to their foundation without properly disclosing his actions. This is par for the course with the complicit media. The idea that “independent” news organizations somehow lack conflicts of interest is absurd....
Under Obama, the press consistently used administration statistics and reports in its friendly, fawning reporting designed to further the Obama legacy. Now that Trump has taken office, the press has reinvested in oppositional journalism, fact-checking minutiae, and claiming that Trump has colluded with Russia.
This is a blatant double standard.
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Roger Aronoff is the editor of Accuracy in Media and a member of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi.
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"Journalists From BuzzFeed, New York Times Assess Daily Signal’s Splash in White House Press ‘Pool’" - Ken McIntyre / March 23, 2017; http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/23/journalists-from-buzzfeed-new-york-times-assess-attack-on-daily-signals-legitimacy/
"Why the ‘Establishment’ Media Is Finding Itself on Shaky Ground" - Genevieve Wood / March 20, 2017 / http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/20/why-the-establishment-media-is-finding-itself-on-shaky-ground/
A recent Washington Post article by media reporter Paul Farhi raises the alarm that the White House Correspondents’ Association has not once, but twice, assigned a Daily Signal employee, Fred Lucas, to be the pool reporter, i.e., the reporter who serves as the “proxy for the rest of the press corps.” The Daily Signal is the “news and commentary site” founded by the conservative Heritage Foundation, he reports, labeling it an “advocacy organization.” “In other words,” writes Farhi, “the news that reporters received about the vice president came from a journalist employed by an organization with a vested interest in the direction of White House and federal policy.”
The idea that the so-called mainstream press somehow stands above their own vested interests, or, put another way, against their own agenda, is laughable at best.
The distinction between biased advocacy news organizations and the supposedly independent press has not only blurred—it has become obsolete. Organizations such as The Daily Signal and Breitbart are just as capable of speaking truth to power as media outlets such as The New York Times, the Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC.
In fact, it is these supposedly impartial news organizations that have continued to lobby for the leftist agenda. When President Barack Obama was in office, they not only worked to legitimize and enhance the Obama legacy, ignoring scandal after scandal, but they even tried to influence the Supreme Court to uphold Obama’s signature legislation, Obamacare.
The deceit of the media didn’t stop there. Under Obama, the media consistently portrayed the economy as recovering even though the labor participation rate remained at abominable levels. A vast number of the jobs supposedly created in the Obama years were part-time, many lasting for just weeks at a time. The unemployment rate dropped to under 5 percent only because millions of people gave up looking for work, not because the economy was booming. Moreover, Obamacare prevented millions of people from getting a full-time job based on the disincentives built into Obama’s signature program.
A case in point is the coverage of the Congressional Budget Office’s report scoring the proposed Republican legislation intended to replace Obamacare. The headlines and stories focused on the “24 million” people who would “lose health insurance coverage by 2026.” But as The Weekly Standard pointed out, the CBO report doesn’t actually say that. What it does say is that “the total number of individuals insured under the Republican plan would eventually be 24 million fewer than the total insured under Obamacare” by that time.
Ironically, it was just a year ago that The Weekly Standard reported that the CBO had been off on another one of its projections on Obamacare by, you guessed it, 24 million people. That error was the average number of people who would have private insurance during any month in 2016, and it took just three years from the 2013 projection to show that the CBO overestimated it by 24 million. In addition, more than six years after the passage of Obamacare, there were still 29 million people who had no health insurance at all, even though the law required it. The price for not buying insurance is a fine, later redefined as a tax, in order to have it ruled constitutional.
The point is that the so-called mainstream media will grab onto whatever they can to put Republicans and conservatives on the defensive, so they are forced to explain how they can be so cruel as to cause 24 million people to “lose their insurance.” They rarely offer anything close to the proper context to help people understand what the Republicans are trying to do.
How many tens of millions of people have seen their premiums and deductibles skyrocket, or lost their ability to keep their doctors or their policies, or have been unable to find a full-time job because of the employer mandates imposed by Obamacare? Do those numbers matter? Apparently not.
The conservative media also have an agenda, but at least they are generally transparent about it.
The leftist, mainstream media pretend to be neutral, biased only for a good story. But they rarely acknowledge that they deceitfully work to cover for the policies and scandals of the Democrats, while working to destroy conservatives and their policies, treating them as cruel and venal.
And in the heat of the 2016 campaign season, WikiLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 revealed the Democrat Media Complex, where reporters would have cocktails with the Hillary Clinton campaign. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos previously worked for the Clintons and later gave donations to their foundation without properly disclosing his actions. This is par for the course with the complicit media. The idea that “independent” news organizations somehow lack conflicts of interest is absurd....
Under Obama, the press consistently used administration statistics and reports in its friendly, fawning reporting designed to further the Obama legacy. Now that Trump has taken office, the press has reinvested in oppositional journalism, fact-checking minutiae, and claiming that Trump has colluded with Russia.
This is a blatant double standard.
[bold, italics, and colored emphasis mine]
Roger Aronoff is the editor of Accuracy in Media and a member of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi.
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"Journalists From BuzzFeed, New York Times Assess Daily Signal’s Splash in White House Press ‘Pool’" - Ken McIntyre / March 23, 2017; http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/23/journalists-from-buzzfeed-new-york-times-assess-attack-on-daily-signals-legitimacy/
"Why the ‘Establishment’ Media Is Finding Itself on Shaky Ground" - Genevieve Wood / March 20, 2017 / http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/20/why-the-establishment-media-is-finding-itself-on-shaky-ground/
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