The Media’s Betrayal of the American Public
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What are the bombshell revelations about Joe Biden?
The bombshell revelations about the mental and physical decline of Joe Biden during his presidency has implicated not just the Biden White House and family, but also the left-leaning legacy media. How much did reporters know about the president's condition but choose to hide? And is the scandal the nail in the coffin for their credibility?
How did the legacy media cover up Biden's condition?
In this episode, we sit down with Batya Angar Sargon to discuss the role the legacy media played in perpetrating the cover-up and what fueled that complicity. I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Saturday, May 24th, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire. Joining us to discuss the legacy media's role in the Biden mental decline cover-up is Batia Ungar Sargon, who once guest hosted for us. Hey, Batia. Thanks so much for coming on.
Thank you so much for having me. It's always an honor to be here with you.
So look, we just witnessed something pretty remarkable, one of the biggest scandals in American history, the biggest presidential scandal I think we've ever seen. We wanted to talk to you about the media's role in all of this, how much they played a part in keeping information that was so key for the American people to know. away from the American people, is there any way that the legacy media can claim that they simply didn't know that they were doing their jobs and that this was all really the Biden administration's fault? Or is this the media's fault as well?
What role does power play in the media's reporting?
From my point of view, this is first and foremost a media scandal because it is in the nature of power to hold on to itself, to expand itself, to protect itself. It's not surprising at all that Joe Biden's inner coterie, his family, his cabinet were protecting him from the revelations that would have ended his presidency if everything was working well, that he was declining mentally. That should make a lot of sense to all of us. That is what power does. It expands itself and it protects itself. That is why the fourth estate, the media, is so important because its job is to look at the natural way that power operates and to hold power to account in the name of the American people who do not have the same access to the people in power.
And here is the thing that is so galling about the media's defense of Joe Biden. It's that when it comes to Donald Trump, They are very good at holding power to account. In fact, they are too good at it. They overstep, they over-criticize. They won't say a single positive thing about him. And so they are deeply inaccurate in the portrayal they give the American people of Donald Trump, which is of course why they've lost so much credibility. It's because they cast themselves as the resistance, but only in one direction. The huge scandal here is not just that the media covered for Joe Biden, a person in power. It's not just that they made themselves the handmaidens of power rather than having an adversarial relationship with power. It's that the media... by and large, was revealed to have the same interests as one political party, the Democratic Party. And the reason for that is not just because the media is by and large liberal and left-leaning. It's because the media is part of the elites.
The majority of American journalists have degrees from fancy universities. They're in the top 10%. They live in the same neighborhoods as the politicians and the millionaires that they're supposed to be covering fairly. Their children go to the same schools as the rich people in this country who have the most power. And so their economic interests...
Why is the media criticized for its handling of Biden versus Trump?
are aligned with those of the Democratic Party, which now caters to the wealthy. So that's why Joe Biden's decline was very much in their interest to hide, because Donald Trump now represents the working class, and it is his policies that represent a threat to to the hegemony of the elites, both from a cultural point of view, a political point of view, but most importantly, an economic point of view. That's the story here. And now that Joe Biden has no power anymore and can't hurt them, now that he is a cancer-ridden, old, senile man, they are lining up to kick him
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What are the bombshell revelations about Joe Biden?
0:02–0:20
2
How did the legacy media cover up Biden's condition?
0:20–1:18
3
What role does power play in the media's reporting?
1:18–3:56
4
Why is the media criticized for its handling of Biden versus Trump?
3:56–5:42
5
What is the significance of the elite media's relationship with the Democratic Party?
5:42–8:54
6
Is Jake Tapper's book an act of courageous journalism?
8:54–9:46
7
How do Democrats attempt to shift blame with Biden's decline?
9:46–12:06
Speakers
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