Is there any media outlet in the country that does actual journalism? I’ll save you the time, the answer is a resounding “no.” None, not one, is worth their weight in post-digested food, and neither are the people who work there (and I say this as someone who knows a lot of people who work there, and likes some of them). It is getting harder and harder to come away from consuming any “news” from anywhere and not be dumber for the experience. No matter how much you dislike these people and that profession, you cannot hate them enough.
How many “journalists,” upon seeing the original video about fraud in the Minnesota welfare system committed by Somalis, set out to report on the substance of the story versus how many reports did you see of reporters calling Nick Shirley’s reporting at “a viral video” or “a right-wing blogger”?
You could tell Nick was over the target by how the leftist corporate media shuffled through their typical playbook for anything that makes Democrats look bad. First, they ignore it. When it becomes too big to ignore, they attack it. When the attacks don’t work, they downplay it. When that doesn’t work, they declare it’s not a scandal because everyone does it.
They ignored Shirley until they could no longer do it – tens of millions of views online for a basic story even a dimwitted Democrat could understand tends to do that.
Once step one collapsed, the media shifted to attacking it. Nick Shirley was just a “YouTuber” who posted a viral video and they offered very little examination of the content of that video. Why? Because when reality does no favors for Democrats, they simply ignore it.
Then it got too big to ignore because too many people saw and shared the video, so they had to downplay it. “Trump claims Minnesota lost billions to fraud. The evidence to date isn’t close,” screamed a headline from the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “Sure, some people have been murdered, but NOT THAT MANY!!” is basically the same attitude. How much is too much? How much has there been? It’s amazing what you can’t find if you refuse to look for it, isn’t it?
After that came the acceptance of what they could no longer ignore and the rush to widen the focus to Republican controlled areas so they could argue that fraud is a bipartisan problem.
Well, it actually is. It’s just WAY worse in areas Democrats control, and when you’re addressing a problem you should start with where the problem is the worst, but the media wants to ignore all of it until they can’t, they play the equivocation game.
I still haven’t seen a serious news report that adds anything to the Somali welfare abuse story from any media outlet. CNN tried to rebut the story, spending more time questioning Nick than they ever have a government official or Somali scammer. Ultimately, they ended up trying to refute Shirley’s reporting by calling 7 child care centers that made small fortunes off welfare, but could only find one that would even answer the phone.
MS Now doesn’t even try, they just smear Nick because the alternative makes Democrats look bad.
But Fox hasn’t done much beyond repeating what Nick Shirley found.
Amazingly, all of these outlets, and all the newspapers, have massive resources and a kid with a camera has still done more to bring facts to light and “speak truth to power” than they have collectively.
What should have been a wake-up call has turned into another slap at the snooze button. Imagine the job these outlets could do if their priority was doing the jobs they claim to exist to do.
Instead, a kid no one heard of a month ago has gotten the 2024 Democratic Party nominee for vice president to end his reelection bid. That means not one media outlet, or the Republican Party, did even a cursory job of vetting the record of Tim Walz during that campaign. Not one. Let that sink in.
We no longer need these people, not because what they do isn’t important, but because what they’re supposed to do IS important and they refuse to do it, so normal people have stepped up to do it in spite of them.
Thank God for the Internet, and thank God Elon Musk bought Twitter. The media has failed you, not by accident but on purpose, because they hate you. Hate them back and hate them more, they deserve it.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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