Just When You Thought You Couldn’t Hate Corporate News Media Enough

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he Americans Public’s trust in the Alphabet News Media has plummeted to all-time lows. On the trust & faith scale, journalists rank somewhere between carnies and members of Congress.

Corporate media, with their non-stop war against former President Donald Trump; and anyone who even remotely supports him, certainly deserve your loathing. In fact, legendary reporter and media critic Michael Walsh says you probably don’t hate the contemporary American journalism collective nearly enough. 

“You think you can, but you haven’t plumbed the depths of how much you can loathe these people,” Walsh claims.

The award-winning journalist, author and screenwriter is editor of and contributor to the eye-opening new book Against the Corporate Media: Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You, a collection of more than two dozen essays from some of the sharpest minds of our time. His book tracks how journalism has devolved from a meaningful blue-collar trade to a “consensus” profession of celebrity “bubble” elitists who have abandoned editorial ethics and even the First Amendment, for the “higher duty” of promoting and protecting the Leftist agenda. 

✪ Trump Provokes Them Simply By Existing

While Walsh and his co-authors draw from an extremely deep well of numerous examples of shameful journalist behavior; it was, of course, published before the corporate media clown show of last weeks Trump-Harris “debate.” The accomplice media attempts to blame Trump’s campaign rhetoric for the second attempt on his life, while writing off and all but ignoring the numerous complaints of Haitian refugees doing very concerning things in Springfield, Ohio to the local pet and avian population. 

NBC News anchor Lester Holt, joined the chorus of his corporate media colleagues, telling viewers on Sunday that the second assassination attempt attempt against Trump in two months “comes amid Trump’s increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself.” 

It proved to be an encore performance from the same confederacy of dunces who have demanded (conservative) politicians “lower the temperature” after a gunman in July shot Trump in the ear, killed one man and seriously injured two others at a Pennsylvania campaign rally. 

“A 78-year-old man really shouldn’t wear short skirts like that out in public. It’s a provocative thing that he does. But then again, he provokes them simply by existing,” Walsh said. Holt and crew are employing corporate media’s most beloved — and bogus — context device, something the New York Times started doing years ago. The trick is to cover an event by dragging in “something extraneous … just so you can make your larger narrative.”

✪ How Are You Supposed To Cover Him?

Journalists have long practiced leftist activism in their reporting, but things went to DEFCON 1 when Trump surprised nearly everyone, the corporate media collective in particular, by winning the GOP nomination and, ultimately, the White House in 2016. 

A New York Times front page declaration of journalistic war in August of that year set the tone for the corporate media coverage to come. The piece, penned by leftist media columnist Jim Rutenberg, was headlined, “Trump is Testing the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism.” The solution, Rutenberg argued, was to give up on objectivity. 

“If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?” he feverishly wrote.

Well, Rutenberg effectively opined to his Trump-hating colleagues who didn’t need much coaxing. He conceded that it might not always “seem fair to Mr. Trump or his supporters,” but who cares about fairness when the world is watching and so much is at stake?

“It is journalism’s job to be true to the readers and viewers, and true to the facts, in a way that will stand up to history’s judgment. To do anything less would be untenable,” Rutenberg asserted. Any illusion of fairness was shattered in the column; as most living on the corporate media commune have since followed his advice to the letter. 

✪ Where It All Becoms Very Dangerous

Things, as fatigued and frustrated Americans well know, have only gotten worse since.  “The media is wholly in the tank in a way that it wasn’t even when we started this book a year and a half ago,” Walsh said. “We were guessing that sometime around the election the media would disgrace itself. We just had no idea how badly they would disgrace themselves.” 

Really badly, it turns out. From memory-holing July’s assassination attempt to the ABC-moderated debate that proved to be nothing really more than an extension of Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign to accusing Trump of triggering would-be assassins, it seems as bad as it can get. But wait … there’s more. 

Since Covid and the 2020 election, the practitioners of selective objectivity have been working overtime with the Deep State’s version of the Ministry of Truth to silence what they deem to be “disinformation, misinformation,” and “malinformation.”  Walsh said they’ve traded in the First Amendment for conformity and consensus. They’ve failed to heed, the reporter added, what Cato’s Letter No. 15 argues is so essential to free government, failing further to see that “where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call any thing else his own.”

Cato’s Letter 15 (opening excerpt):

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech: Which is the right of every man, as far as by it he does not hurt and control the right of another; and this is the only check which it ought to suffer, the only bounds which it ought to know.

This sacred privilege is so essential to free government, that the security of property; and the freedom of speech, always go together; and in those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call any thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of the nation, must begin by subduing the freedom of speech; a thing terrible to public traitors…”

“This is the key to the importance of freedom of speech, and yet it is being abandoned in pursuit of what I call in our book’s opening essay a ‘higher loyalty,’” Walsh said. “Just as former FBI Director James Comey said he had a higher loyalty than the actual law of the United States of America, journalists have a higher loyalty beyond the First Amendment, and that’s where it gets very dangerous.”✪

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