The late great Rush Limbaugh used to joke about how most news outlets were nothing more than state-controlled media during the Obama years. It didn’t matter if it was The New York Times, Associated Press, or The Washington Post, the narrative was always the same and always friendly to Democrats.
In Soviet Russia, the centralized authoritarian government controlled the narrative and what could and could not be reported. America’s media bias is less defined and more dependent on the news outlets themselves choosing to root for one team over the other, the result is almost exclusively 100% support for whatever the Democratic Party talking point is.
With the recent announcement from Speaker Kevin McCarthy that the House would be opening an impeachment inquiry into President Biden’s financial corruption, the White House wasted no time in trying to control the way impeachment should be covered.
In a memo, sent by Ian Sams, a special assistant to the President, the Biden administration outlined the way it would like media outlets to essentially run block and respond to the House impeachment inquiry, according to Axios:
The White House on Wednesday emailed the leaders of several major news organizations, including Axios, arguing the media needs to “ramp up its scrutiny” of House Republicans’ efforts to impeach President Biden.
Why it matters: The White House argues that the media’s reporting about incremental updates on the impeachment inquiry process over the substance of the inquiry “is woefully inadequate when it comes to something as historically grave as impeachment.”
Arguing that the impeachment inquiry is “based on lies,” the note includes a list of public recent statements from various Republican House members denouncing the impeachment process, with several citing a lack of evidence.
Sams also included a separate 14-page document debunking conservative claims about impeachable offenses allegedly committed by President Biden.
“We hope this document helps provide you with factual information useful in your reporting on their unprecedented, unfounded claims underlying an impeachment inquiry without any evidence of wrongdoing,” it stated.
There’s something Orwellian about the White House telling journalists what “facts” to include in their reporting. Maybe it’s not Orwellian, maybe it’s more akin to the Soviet Politburo informing reporters about the way something is to be reported, or else.
The memo brought rebuke even from some left-wing media outlets over the blatant attempt by the White House to interfere with reporting on the matter and try to insert itself into the way the story would be covered.
The ironic part is that for most news agencies, no help is needed from the White House to put a friendly spin on matters relating to Joe Biden. The entire mainstream media conglomerate has been covering for the Biden family since Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell surfaced before the 2020 presidential election. Despite the New York Post’s exhaustive analysis proving the laptop was authentic and belonged to the President’s son, news agencies followed marching orders from the Biden campaign to dismiss and downplay the story as “Russian disinformation.”
Here’s the full text of the White House memo impeachment which is titled as being directed toward “editorial leadership” at news agencies:
Here’s the rest of the document, a 14-page appendix follow-up for more details and “facts” the Biden administration would like to have reported:
