Our nation’s heavy Leftist press continually seeks to destroy our country. This includes bogus or nonexistent reporting about millions of illegals flooding our borders, costing us billions of dollars as they receive free hotel rooms, food, healthcare, and 10-year court dates.
When the Biden crime family has more than 200 banking irregularities and nine family members have received significant funds from foreign governments, the Leftist press will claim that this is all conjecture and no proof has been presented.
When the Durham report reveals that the FBI conspired with Hillary Clinton and her campaign to create a false narrative about Trump colluding with Russia, and that the CIA, the Obama Administration, and other high-ranking government officials knew about it as early as 2016, the press ignores it, or calls it a big nothing burger.
Our Greatest Enemy
A free and reasonably impartial press was a key element in establishing our representative republic. The Founding Fathers knew it, Americans from all walks of life knew it, and for most of our history, we took it for granted. Sure, human beings are biased and organizations have particular slants, but journalism and reporting was based on the underlying notion that the news organizations did a credible job to portray what was actually happening.
Today, we know that, among the mainstream media giants, from The New York Times and The Washington Post on down, there is no intention of offering a fair and balanced accounting of national and international events. As such, our highly compromised press is the single biggest obstacle to moving forward as a nation. In league with the Democratic National Committee, there is virtually no chance of objecting political reporting.
As Prof. Victor Davis Hanson pointed out, The New York Times built its reputation over more than 150 years, as did The Washington Post. The Leftists who run these organizations today, and the propagandist-type journalists whom they hire, continually espouse far Leftist positions. They have no interest in objective journalism and, indeed, openly flout their highly biased views. Their features and stories are fabricated, and would amaze even their staunch liberal founders.
Long-term, No One Benefits
Without a reasonably unbiased press and attempts to offer articles that have some semblance of fairness, our culture has little to no chance of proceeding in a manner that will be of benefit to all. As Democrats will one day learn, even they will not benefit. When proponents on the Left and on the Right have little chance of compromise, of finding common ground, and abandoning partisan politics for the common good, what chance does the country have?
When our media is dominated by a singular point of view, which praises to the high hills that with which they agree and besmirches any view with which they disagree, how can anything but dissension follow?
The press has become particularly embolden of late. They gleefully lie about Antifa, Black Lives Matter, largely “peaceful protests,” drag queen story hour, Israel as an apartheid state (nonsense with a 21% Arab population), Ron Desantis, women’s sports, FBI malfeasance, cancel culture, the U.S. budget, Biden’s mental state, and on and on, in every direction.
They seek more George Floyd incidents, or create them so that they can further drive a wedge between black and white unlike anything we've experienced in 50 years. They aggrandize any incidents of white on black violence to ‘confirm’ that the U.S. is racist, never mind that interracial violence is overwhelmingly black on white. Then they give black assailants proverbial free passes.
Always on the Hunt
They hunt for racism in math, science, literature, entire school systems, healthcare, and government – everywhere and anywhere – to proclaim that the country is racist and always will be, and thus needs to be dismantled from the top down.
So many of the movements and squabbles we have witnessed simply would not have occurred with a reasonably fair press. Politically, the Right and the Left might actually have resolved some issues. The outright hatred that we see everyday, the acrimony, and the bitterness would be a fraction of what we've experienced.
Alas, the twisted path that the mainstream press is committed to treading seems to be irreversible. Maybe someday, viable alternatives to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the major television networks will be superseded by other, more balanced forms of information dissemination.
Until then, we have a snowball's chance in hell of finding common ground, strengthening our democracy, and ensuring our future.