The stark political reality facing President Joe Biden, prompting his unprecedented decision to exit the 2024 race, might look different had he enjoyed the support of a blindly loyal, propagandistic news media.
While Donald Trump has relied on Fox News and an army of MAGA Media loyalists to endlessly shield him from scandal after scandal, Biden had no such defenses in his arsenal when serious questions were raised about his age and mental acuity
Silencing dissent? We would never
Instead, the president — unable to conjure up his own version of reality and successfully disseminate it to the masses
Not for lack of trying
was forced to grapple with the truth and make a stunning 11th hour decision that rocked the country in a political earthquake.
Emphasis mine
The entire affair, which played out in just three weeks, punctured a hole in the claim that Trump and the GOP have regularly peddled: that the news media is in the pocket of Biden and the White House. That obviously has not been the case, as exemplified by the hard-hitting coverage the president has been subjected to since his poor showing last month at the CNN debate.
Before that, it was a stutter
In the weeks since, those concerns repeatedly found their way to MSNBC’s air, despite a good chunk of the channel’s viewership making it clear they did not want to hear criticism of Biden.
Smh tankie MSNBC putlerites are trying to stop dark brandon's ascension
In fact, in the end, the news media played a notable role in the unraveling of Biden’s campaign by offering a forum for an uncomfortable stream of questions about his abilities to enter the national discourse.
Had the news media looked the other way and run cover for Biden, he very well may not have felt the need to abandon his bid for a second term in office.
Biden was watching the news and couldn't believe how bad the president did in that debate.
Nice emphasis on forced. If Trump went into a coma on the debate stage like Biden did and hundreds of millions of people saw it live and were like "wow what the fuck" then Fox would have had to do the same thing.
I mean its not like Biden has enjoyed perversely distorted and favorable coverage from every single liberal media outlet on every imaginable fucking issue including a motherfucking genocide for 4 years, Covid, border policy, labor law, debt forgiveness, etc and yes, his obviously melting brain which we knew about for forever and yall were all like "NUH UH, NO, NO NO SHUT UP!!!!!!"
What did Fox News report when Mitch McConnell became catatonic twice during a speech?
That's more comparable to the rare senior moments we were allowed to see from Biden over the past three years (see also Pelosi and Feinstein). Short moments, small audiences.
Not being able to speak coherently for over an hour on national TV is much more difficult to hide or spin.
My guy, all the previous examples; none of that shit is acceptable. "Greatest Nation in the World." Figure it out.
"senior moments" shouldn't be acceptable let alone a common occurrence of multiple politicians in the greatest country on earth.
Of course not. But you seemed to be asking why Fox didn't run wall-to-wall coverage of McConnell's brain explosion the way CNN covered Biden’s at the debate. I'm suggesting Fox could bury coverage of McConnell (the same way CNN has buried coverage of Pelosi and Feinstein) because it occurred at a much smaller scale than a presidential debate.
The articles I dug up on their site were pretty by the book. Just reporting what happened, a few quotes from Republican officials.
Their written articles online are usually pretty solid (as far as bourgeois news goes), it's the TV channel that's a problem
Do the majority of fox viewers read articles or watch television show?
Most people definitely watch on TV, which is why looking at Fox News.com and reading articles isn't a good barometer for what their propaganda machine is doing
