Dems, Media Richly Deserve Their Dismal Ratings | The American Spectator

Anyone old enough to have watched the original Star Wars film on the big screen will clearly remember the scene in which Obi-Wan Kenobi advises Luke Skywalker that the Mos Eisley settlement is “a wretched hive of scum and villainy.” According to a new Wall Street Journal poll, this is very much the way most voters view the Democratic Party. Specifically, the survey found that 63 percent of voters hold an unfavorable view of “the Party of Jefferson and Jackson.” Considering the absurd antics to which voters have been subjected by these people, it’s remarkable that their numbers aren’t worse.

The only group of people held in less esteem by the public than the Democrats are their accomplices in the corporate media. The most recent Gallup survey found the following:  “Americans’ trust in the mass media is at its lowest point in more than five decades … with 31 percent trusting the media a great deal or a fair amount.” Gallup also points out, “Confidence in news has fallen more than confidence in other institutions.” For example, net confidence in small business and the military stand at a relatively high +61 and +49 percent respectively, but television news and newspapers are far below periscope depth at -44 and -30 percent respectively. To a large degree the woes of the Democrats and legacy media are caused by their deeply dysfunctional codependent relationship.

It has long been blindingly obvious to any objective observer that the majority of “mainstream news outlets” collude with the Democrats to create political narratives to benefit the latter. Conversely, these same news organizations routinely slant their coverage of Republicans in a way that is both dishonest and openly hostile. A case in point is how they approached the recent revelations by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard concerning the use of manufactured intelligence to launch the Trump-Russia investigation. As DNI Gabbard phrases it:

They simply talk about their criticisms of it or convey Democrat politicians’ criticisms, but none of them actually deal with the truth … Number one is they don’t want the American people to know the truth. But also they recognize the mainstream media’s complicity in this, that they were fed early lines from this manufactured false intelligence assessment that President Obama ordered, that John Brennan and James Clapper created without any vetting, without any actual journalistic integrity of looking at what they were being fed. They received it and they printed it almost immediately.

What Gabbard is describing is a classic tactic used by the corporate media. Frequently, instead of actively peddling outright lies, such as the claim that the “One Big Beautiful Bill” is going to kick millions of poor people off of Medicaid, they commit sins of omission. “News” outlets will simply refuse to cover a story by declaring it unworthy of their time. This is how NPR justified its failure to cover the Hunter Biden Laptop scandal in 2020. The pompous managing editor stated, “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listener’s and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”

Not that the Democrats and the corporate media aren’t capable of partnering to cook up fabrications. Indeed, virtually every news story produced by the legacy media concerning the Russia collusion hoax was fiction. Likewise, there was so much media mendacity associated with the J6 “insurrection” that it is difficult to catalogue. Among the most frequently repeated lies involved the people allegedly killed during the riot. CNN ran this story, for example, falsely claiming Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died as a result of injuries inflicted by rioters. It is little wonder that three-fourths of Americans distrust media reports:

More than three-quarters of U.S. adults say that news organizations are biased when presenting news on social and political issues, according to a new survey. The survey from the Pew Research Center released Tuesday found that 77 percent of surveyed Americans believe media organizations are biased. This is a slight decrease from early 2020, when 79 percent of respondents said the same thing, marking the highest percentage since Pew began asking the question … Meanwhile, just 22 percent of Americans in the most recent survey said the media fairly deals with all sides.

The implications of this are pretty grim for the legacy media. Many corporate news outlets still retain brand recognition and access, but it’s difficult to see them surviving the credibility crisis described above in the long term.  When the Democrats controlled the White House and Congress, there was considerable discussion of government subsidies — despite the obvious conflicts of interest it would involve. Oh yes, and there’s always that pesky Constitution. Neither the Democrats nor their corporate media partners are overly worried about such minor nuisances. Nevertheless, both seem to be going under for the third time.

Indeed, the Democrats and the corporate media are in a situation not unlike those drowning incidents we occasionally read about in which one person with poor swimming skills gets into trouble and ends up pulling his would-be rescuer under. In this case, the Democratic Party fell into water over its head in 2016. The corporate media, not understanding that there was a powerful populist undertow or that the Democrats were panicking, attempted a rescue. Now, the Democrats are “climbing” on top of the media trying to reach the surface. Soon there will be two bodies in the water — unless one breaks free and leaves the other to its fate.

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