{"id":93214,"date":"2020-10-20T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-media-cover-joe-biden-the-way-a-protection-racket-does\/"},"modified":"2020-10-20T04:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T01:18:00","slug":"the-media-cover-joe-biden-the-way-a-protection-racket-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-media-cover-joe-biden-the-way-a-protection-racket-does\/","title":{"rendered":"#The media ‘cover’ Joe Biden the way a protection racket does"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The media<\/a> ‘cover’ Joe Biden the way a protection racket does<\/strong>”
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\n Joe Biden is the most cosseted presidential candidate in memory.<\/p>\n

He has run a minimalist campaign that has avoided the press as much as possible, while the press hasn\u2019t been braying for more access and answers, but eager to avoid anything that could be discomfiting to the campaign. <\/p>\n

Never before have the media been so openly fearful of asking or reporting something that might hurt a presidential candidate. What are supposed to be the animating values of our adversarial press \u2014 informing the public, getting answers, holding the powerful to account \u2014 have all been subordinated to the protection racket that is coverage of Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Even the lowest common denominator of news<\/a> \u2014 simply being interesting \u2014 has been tossed aside. Boring and uneventful is the new newsworthy. This presumably isn\u2019t how they teach it in journalism school, but no one has had trouble adjusting. <\/p>\n

The tendency reached a new level in the media\u2019s handling of New York Post reports on e-mails obtained from a laptop that Hunter Biden reportedly left off at a Delaware repair shop. <\/p>\n

Here was a story with enough mysteries and plotlines to keep a couple of newsrooms busy. Are the e-mails, putting Hunter Biden\u2019s sleazy overseas business dealings in a more sinister light, legitimate? Did Hunter really take the laptop to the shop and forget about it? And, more important, what do the e-mails say about what Joe Biden knows or should have known about Hunter\u2019s work that depended so heavily on proximity to the vice president? <\/p>\n

Instead, the press has been \u00aduninterested at best and hostile at worst. It\u2019s the opposite of a feeding frenzy. The media have deployed their bomb-disposal unit for fear that a potentially explosive story might detonate. <\/p>\n

What Biden has to say about the e-mails is inherently of interest. Yet he wasn\u2019t asked about it at his ABC News town hall last week. Never mind that his response would have made headlines afterward and the clip would have been shown in every TV segment about the debate. <\/p>\n

Subsequently, CBS reporter Bo Erickson betrayed his profession by asking Biden his response to The Post story on a tarmac. He got slammed by Biden: \u201cI have no response, it\u2019s another smear campaign, right up your alley, those are the questions you always ask.\u201d <\/p>\n

No one rallied to Erickson\u2019s \u00addefense. Instead, respectable figures on the center-left shamed Erickson for having asked a politician an unwelcome question \u2014 which the day before yesterday would have been considered Journalism 101. <\/p>\n

Much of the press has pronounced the Post story debunked without doing any work to debunk it and believes as a matter of faith that it is Russian disinformation. Rather, the focus has been reporting on how The Post reported the story, as the press works to discredit \u00admedia outlets that don\u2019t toe the correct political line \u2014 you know, just like Woodward and Bernstein did it during Watergate. <\/p>\n

This tendency toward \u201canti-reporting\u201d has long characterized Biden coverage. The New York Times took 19 days to cover Tara Reade\u2019s sexual-assault allegation against him, not wanting to burden its readers with information about a newsworthy charge too quickly. <\/p>\n

The media has dutifully pushed back against the idea that Biden wants to ban fracking, even though Biden himself has said at times that he wants to ban fracking. Any Biden misstep is quickly explained away. The press doesn\u2019t seem to mind that the campaign is prone to declare \u201clids\u201d \u2014 or the end of the candidate\u2019s public day \u2014 early and often. <\/p>\n

Why would the press want more access to a candidate it isn\u2019t covering so much as carefully shielding from scrutiny with the finish line of Nov. 3 in sight? <\/p>\n

Usually, the media love candidates who make good copy, who provide drama and color. In its \u00adhatred and fear of President Trump, though, reporters have thrown in their lot with the dull and meandering Biden, bringing to the effort all the complacency and pointed incuriosity they can muster.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @RichLowry <\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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