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Sybil Ludington
12-31-2020, 06:38 PM
From the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic to the riots to the 2020 election, the left-leaning legacy media has twisted, subverted, and outright suppressed the news it is supposedly tasked with reporting. It is impossible to cover every instance of media bias against President Donald Trump, for Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., or propping up the far-Left’s increasingly stifling orthodoxy, but I have compiled what I believe to be the ten most egregious examples from 2020.

Enjoy, and weep for the objectivity of the free press:


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https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/12/30/the-10-worst-legacy-media-abuses-in-2020-n1293042?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=57139bde57e070d7cce67b2f02003c45&recip=21833186

chaidragonfire
12-31-2020, 10:59 PM
For some reason, I want to print that out and use it as toilet paper.

Peter1469
01-01-2021, 06:16 AM
10. The death of Soleimani
The Washington Post hailed Soleimani as a “revered military leader (https://pjmedia.com/trending/washington-post-calls-brutal-iran-terrorist-thug-a-revered-military-leader/).” The New Yorker ran an article (https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-us-assassinated-suleimani-the-chief-exporter-of-irans-revolution-but-at-what-price) from actress Robin Wright describing Soleimani as “a flamboyant former construction worker (https://apnews.com/3bb7af59e8b1bfd3e15222a98395ee85) and bodybuilder with snowy white hair, a dapper beard, and arching salt-and-pepper eyebrows.” She described the Quds Force as “an Iranian unit of commandos comparable to the U.S. Seals, Delta Force, and Rangers combined.”





9. Condemning Trump for saying “Wuhan coronavirus.”
In March, legacy media figures started attacking Trump and other Republicans for referring to COVID-19 as the “Chinese coronavirus” or the “Wuhan coronavirus,” suggesting that such terms were insensitive or racist.


8. Praising Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 response


7. Ron DeSantis demonized


6. “Mostly peaceful” riots

Hey George don't swallow all that fentanyl.


5. The New York Times and Tom Cotton
Amid the riots, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) published an op-ed in The New York Times. Cotton acknowledged the importance of peaceful protest but called for law and order against the destructive riots.

Times staffers revolted and pressured the paper’s op-ed editor James Bennet to resign for agreeing to publish the op-ed.





4. Slandering Trump’s Mt. Rushmore speech
On the Fourth of July, President Donald Trump gave a magnificent speech defending America (https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/07/04/at-mount-rushmore-trump-warns-of-a-cultural-revolution-destroying-the-american-revolution-n603801) from the false attacks of Marxist critical race theory that inspired the destructive riots this summer. Legacy media outlets condemned the speech, even spreading outright lies about it.


“Trump Uses Mount Rushmore Speech to Deliver Divisive Culture War Message,” screams Annie Karni’s headline at the Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-mount-rushmore.html). “Trump tries to drag America backward on a very different July 4th,” wrote CNN’s Maeve Reston (https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/04/politics/donald-trump-mount-rushmore-culture-wars-july-4th/index.html).


3. Burying news of Middle East peace deals


2. Refusing to cover the explosive Hunter Biden story


1. Big Tech censorship of the New York Post story

Tahuyaman
01-01-2021, 01:02 PM
I don’t believe it’s possible to select one sing me example as the most egregious media abuse.


Chances are their biggest abuse was what they covered up vs what they reported.


Everything the media reports must be viewed with skepticism.

Tahuyaman
01-01-2021, 01:09 PM
This is possibly the craziest thing I’ve seen when it cones to analyzing the media.

https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2020/heres-a-look-back-at-the-best-and-worst-of-news-media-in-2020/

Here’s a look back at the best and worst of news media in 2020The year's last Poynter Report takes an expansive look at the good, the bad and the very ugly in the media world in an unpredictable year.