Worst Outlet of the Week - Who Took Bottom Honors in the Latest Round of Dysfunctional Media?
It’s been another week of mayhem in the media as our journalistic betters have been consistently unhinged. This was a tight contest with a number of individual unhinged pieces, but many outlets in the pack vying for the title. It was close to the wire to determine the winner.
Much of the problem was that there was a concerted effort to cover a variety of stories - Epstein, Colbert, Gaza, and of course Sydney Sweeney - all in an effort to find something to keep them from covering the release of more Russian collusion documents. As such, it was a tough time tabulating the trauma. Let’s tug on the hip waders, begin trudging through the muck and mire that is our media complex, and determine who took top (bottom) honors this week.
THE CONTENDERS
(Dis)Honorable Mention: The Bulwark – In an attempt to slam the devout, a strained effort was made to equate a recent deportation arrest to arresting Jesus, complete with a photo of a statue of Jesus Christ in handcuffs.
NBC News – The network gave lengthy coverage of a crazy cat lady suing the Blue Angles flight team over the death of her feline. Lapsing into the realm of the unhinged, blue-haired set on social media, the network called the Sydney Sweeney ad a case of promoting eugenics. They also gave sympathetic coverage to a transgender darts player affected by a gender rule in competition.
Rolling Stone – We were granted the bat-crap explanation that the documents exposing the scam of Russian collusion were planted by Russia…before the collusion efforts were even launched. They gave an editorial to complain about Trump’s economy; it was written by a former Biden administration financial wonk. Despite constant negative hits on President Trump, the outlet faced the fact that voters see the Democrats as being more corrupt.
The Washington Post – The paper continues to monitor the stream of talent leaving as buyouts offered were accepted by many, including longtime fact-checker Glenn Kessler. They felt the need to jump on the hype, declaring “American Eagle’s Sydney Sweeney ad went wrong” – as the company earned hundreds of millions of dollars in a matter of days. Then, while berating men for ogling a model, the paper helped Democrats figure out why they were not appealing to men.
Axios – After Trump scored the massive trade deal with the European Union, we were told this deal was too good and the president was being unfair to the EU. After the photograph was disproven, they still ran an image of the child in Gaza said to be dying of starvation. They claimed the Trump administration was rewriting rules for grant programs to benefit whites – there was no rewriting taking place, just the enforcement of current anti-discrimination standards.
The Atlantic – In mewling about the Sydney Sweeney controversy, Charlie Warzel complained that conservatives are trying to suggest that “Americans should be free to love boobs.” In a lengthy favorable interview with Jasmine Crockett, the outlet revealed that, in an attempt to get some background on her, 33 members of Congress would not speak about her. After learning of this research, Crockett shut down the interviews. After his name appeared in the Durham annex documents, Franklin Foer went on MSNBC… to discuss tariffs.
CNN – During live coverage of the shooting in New York City, Erin Burnett speculated the attacker was “possibly white,” and then it was revealed he had been most certainly not that. After extensive coverage of the plight of Gaza residents in desperate need of aid, we get the report that airdrops of supplies were humiliating for Palestinians. Financial correspondent Richard Quest was upset that Scott Jennings accurately quoted his inaccurate tariff predictions in April.
THE WINNER
NEW YORK TIMES
“The Paper Of Record” distinguished itself in a tough battle by coming up with some rather significant dysfunctional entries to win at the wire.
A front-page report on starvation in Gaza featured an emaciated infant, then a correction had to be issued after it was pointed out that the kid’s family looked rather healthy; it was then learned the tyke has a genetic disease.
The paper was sure to give two figures under fire with the new documents released on Russian collusion - John Brennan and James Clapper - the chance to defend themselves with an editorial.
Then the paper lapsed into a tortured explainer about how the Durham annex documents do not disprove the basis of the investigation, by not offering any disqualifying proof.
In one editorial, they have a doctor proposing the recalibration of death rulings in order to generate more organs for transplant donations.
The paper got weepy about Trump reinstituting the Presidential Fitness Test in schools.
See you next week, readers!
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