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Team Biden brings in media to bully them about their coverage of ‘the big guy’

January 9, 2024 | | Print Article

From chummy to chastised: a new report spoke to the president’s “off-the-record” re-election campaign meetings with corporate media figures about their coverage of “the big guy.”

As seamlessly as former press secretary Jen Psaki had moved from the White House to MSNBC, the press has taken each stumble from President Joe Biden in stride, making a meme of themselves as fires burn all around. Evidently, the rhythm of their lockstep wasn’t in sync enough for the campaign team, according to a report from Semafor, as outlets like the Washington Post and The New York Times were being told how they’ve “fallen short.”

“President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign has begun organizing a series of off-the-record trips for top political reporters and editors to the team’s headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware,” began the report, “and meet top officials, including the campaign manager, deputies, and other senior advisors for background briefings on campaign strategy.”

Citing insiders, media figures from newspapers, networks and websites were said to have been shown a “coverage spreadsheet laying out areas where the team believes their reporting has fallen short.”

“In particular, campaign officials have chafed at some of the coverage of former President Donald Trump, feeling that outlets are too focused on his legal troubles and haven’t paid enough attention to some of his incendiary recent statements on the campaign trail,” continued Semafor’s Max Tani, indicating there were upcoming meetings with figures from ABC, Bloomberg, Fox, NBC, NPR, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and more slated in the days to come.

Reacting to the report, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, Mollie Hemingway suggested, “Democrat privilege includes having corporate media 1000% in your pocket and being able to demand they turn up the propaganda even more. This is almost comical.”

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Nowhere to be found were the invocations of “our democracy” and “election integrity” when, in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, the story about Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop was swept under the rug through suppression and censorship. Even after billionaire Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social media platform Twitter that included his blasting the Times as having become, “for all intents and purposes, an unregistered lobbying firm for far left politicians” for avoiding those topics, it appeared there was still work to be done on the propagandist front.

As with Biden’s alleged ties to his son’s foreign business deals, wherein it is widely accepted the former vice president is the person identified as “the big guy,” the connections to the Chinese Communist Party were readily there to make as the report was compared to another where Chinese President Xi Jinping sought “absolute loyalty” from his nation’s media.

Others took aim at the media for abandoning journalistic integrity with comments like, “Any [douchebag] journalist who would do this needs to be outed and ridiculed — how many meetings with journalist[s] in Wilmington have happened they didn’t tell us about?” and, “This is some dictatorship BS! Any journos that attend are not to be taken seriously!”

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