For years, a recurring leitmotif at Instapundit, where I’ve been co-blogging for over a decade, was the phrase, “Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.” Glenn Reynolds coined it, but my co-insta-blogger Steve Green and I have used it frequently as well.
Not that we ever had much doubt, but thanks to their titanic meltdowns last week at the L.A. Times and Washington Post, it was nice of the media to entirely confirm Glenn’s hypothesis.
Both papers, each chockablock staffed with party-hack leftists, had their entirely expected presidential endorsements for Kamala Harris squelched by their zillionaire owners, Patrick Soon-Shiong at the L.A. Times, and of course, Jeff Bezos at the WaPo.
Over the weekend, cable news television channels owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and Comcast went all-in on calling a former president and his supporters the second coming of the Third Reich when Trump held a rally at Madison Square Garden, despite its use over the decades by both political parties as a popular gathering spot for large political conventions and rallies.
To understand how we got here, the backstory is told in detail in the highly-readable new anthology “Against the Corporate Media: Forty-Two Ways the Press Hates You,” assembled by Michael Walsh. Walsh is the author of 2015’s “The Devil’s Pleasure Palace” and a former editor at Time magazine, the late Andrew Breitbart’s early “Big Journalism” Website, and more recently, his own energy independence-themed The Pipeline site. […]
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