Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign theme portrays his political opponents as violent, insurrectionary, racist Nazis. Corporate media will blanket your eyes and ears with that slander against the vast majority of America while ignoring the left’s unchecked acts of political violence.
Jesse Singal posted on X an internal Washington Post email discussing how to even more thickly smear the solid majority of Americans who oppose racial preferences as racists. In it, race editor Renae Merle previews the next company “brainstorming session” focusing on the “backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion programs (DEI).”
“[L]et’s talk through how we can expand and elevate our coverage,” which she described as already “extensive[].”
This was sent to the Washington Post newsroom last week. Seems to pretty clearly telegraph what is considered the ‘correct’ coverage of some rather hot-button issues where there is good-faith disagreement. This sort of thing makes it a lot harder to trust a publication’s output. pic.twitter.com/uehvaBR56m
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 10, 2024
We already know corporate media rigs elections with news coverage so prejudiced it’s no longer just biased but now outright propaganda. Corporate U.S. outlets act effectively like outlets in Communist China, which only differ in levels of pretended distance from government control. Just recently, it surfaced that the White House keeps an actual spreadsheet reviewing media coverage and holds off-record meetings with reporters telling them how to “do better next time.”
As my colleague Eddie Scarry noted, corporate media already functions as a brute-force amplifier of
