Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: It’s odd that Biden seems to think more highly of the media’s role in beating back the forces of right-wing authoritarianism than do many members of the press.
. Certainly, he said that much more gently. “The free press is not the enemy of the people — far from it,” Biden said. “The truth matters. American democracy is not a reality show. It’s not a reality show. It’s reality itself.”
On one hand, you could hear that as criticism of Biden’s predecessor, who, as authoritarians tend to do, demonized the media and attacked objective reality. One could, however, also hear it as a plea to reporters to take seriously the threats to democracy — and to give that story the coverage it deserves. Biden emphasized that “at home, a poison is running through our democracy … with disinformation massively on the rise, where the truth is buried by lies and the lies live on as truth.
It’s odd that Biden seems to think more highly of the media’s role in beating back the forces of right-wing authoritarianism than do many members of the press. The too-common pose of “neutrality” when one political party is injecting that “poison” running through our democracy amounts to capitulation to lies and conspiracy-mongering.
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