Becket Adams

3 weeks ago | thehill.com | Becket Adams

It was the easiest thing in the world to predict: The media’s moment of half-hearted contrition for “missing” President Joe Biden’s obvious physical and cognitive decline has given way already to a fixation on President Trump’s health. The journalists have no choice, you see. They’re humbled now. Their renewed zeal for the truth compels them to correct for the reporting mistakes of the Biden era. Therefore, they must now be unrelentingly suspicious of Trump’s mental and physical health.

3 weeks ago | nationalreview.com | Becket Adams

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Becket Adams

The failure to adequately cover Biden’s decline points to a broader breakdown that has a simple explanation. Source link

1 month ago | nationalreview.com | Becket Adams

1 month ago | thehill.com | Becket Adams

Members of the press have hit upon a deliberate strategy to influence the debate surrounding immigrant deportations: Lead with emotion, then trickle out facts, perhaps selectively. The coverage follows a pattern. First, the headline presents the deportee as a blameless bystander. Then come the laments — how the individual has been “ripped” from his community, how his family is in turmoil, how his life has been upended, and so on.