December 7, 2024
The Media’s No Good, Really Bad, Terrible Two Weeks
It probably won’t help that September is now behind them.
It probably won’t help that September is now behind them.

There’s a really bad song called “Wake Me Up When September Ends” by a really bad band named Green Day.

When the faux-punk outfit released the comically emo, radio-friendly single in 2004, they had no way of knowing that it would serve as the soundtrack for the American mainstream media’s unraveling some 15 years later. After all, the last half of September was a rough couple of weeks for the press; perhaps no period in modern history has witnessed such a staggering amount of journalistic malfeasance.

It’s a play more or less in three acts, a slapstick tragedy so absurdly avoidable that it borders on comedy. And it begins, as so many journalistic tragedies do, at the New York Times.

Apparently still bitter that the first press-led character assassination of Brett Kavanaugh failed to stop his confirmation to the highest court in the land, the Gray Lady doubled down on September 14 by teasing a book by Times writers Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly.

The article lobbed yet another accusation of sexual misconduct against the Supreme Court Justice (well, sort of: Kavanaugh’s friends allegedly shoved his penis in the face of an unsuspecting female). Not only did it appear that Kavanaugh was a victim as well, but the Times piece also conveniently failed to mention that the alleged female victim was never interviewed and according to her friends doesn’t remember the incident.

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See Also:

(1) Six ways to Sunday? Intelligence chiefs not only altered rules about firsthand knowledge to file whistleblower report…

(2) Trump: ‘What Is Taking Place Isn’t an Impeachment, It’s a Coup’

(3) Impeachment Creates an Opening for Chappaqua

(4) Absolutely, Let’s Have an Impeachment Trial

(5) Trump’s transparency is driving the left nuts (and messing up their impeachment dreams)

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Don Deacon
Don Deacon
October 4, 2019 3:55 pm

A little bit off topic but it appears that Fox News who have generally been “fair and balanced” now seem to be tilting somewhat to the left when anyone of the following are on camera. Shep Smith, Chris Wallace and Judge Nepolitano, ( not sure about the spelling). If you listen to them you would think they are on MSNBC.