What's Good For the Goose
Is good for the gander as the saying goes so today I will take a shot at conservative media.
Let’s start with being honest about my viewing habits. First, I cut the cord quite some time ago and I am very glad I did.
I had an account with Optimum Cable and to say that they were the worst business I have ever dealt with in my my life is an understatement. They flat out sucked and they can change the name to Altice but “poop of a different color still smell the same”.
That happened before the pandemic and I did pretty well getting information online and with the various streaming channels I managed to find. While the news for the last several years has been so skewed that often times, I would just turn it off, I still found a way to know what was going on.
I had subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the real paper of record, The New York Post. I always say that if it’s in the Post it must be true.
I got rid of my WSJ subscription, not because of it’s political views but I looked at the cost to benefit ratio and decided that the 11 minutes I spent reading the WSJ was not worth the rising costs of a paper subscription. The paper literally has very little to say anymore and there are bright spots occasionally, I just don’t think it’s worth the cost.
I have been an off and on subscriber to the the New York Times and this is another case of cost to benefit is working against the paper. Putting it’s ultra liberal leanings aside and the fact that every article either has a negative mention of Donald Trump or climate change, the Times is an exceptionally well written newspaper. The editors edit and make sure the grammar and the writing is near perfect. I will give them that and there are, like the WSJ, some great stories in it but as I have repeatedly said, enough about Trump and enough with climate change. We get it. I may cancel again.
This brings us to the New York Post. I can sit and bitch about the Times addiction to certain things but at least they are in well formed articles, biased or not, that are well written. The Post disregards properly written essays for “Man bites Dog” articles about every stupid thing on the planet. They do not fact check anything or follow up on many of their articles. Something happened in the Bronx that might be of interest to certain people, they write one five paragraph article about it and then you never hear about it again. Yet they have latched onto this Hunter Biden thing like a hungry pit bull at a parade and won’t let it go.
I will say that I don’t believe about 25% of what is written in the Post but I do think they have something here. Hunter Biden is a bad character and somewhere along the line he did get his father (then VP of the United States) involved and it will just take time and political will to get to the bottom of this.
As the New York Times and MSNBC and CNN tortured President Trump, you now have the conservative media torturing President Biden and his family. From Fox News to the Post to Bill O’Reilly and Marc Levin, it’s payback time.
CNN took pleasure every night trying to rip apart President Trump. The Times still has a stick up it’s Grey lady butt about Trump so it’s only fair that the right has it’s time in the spotlight.
CNN or the Times did not bring down President Trump. President Trump brought a lot of the pain and anguish on himself. They just gloated on it and picked it apart incessantly. Good job. Now it’s Fox’s turn and occasionally and Sean Hannity looking and poking and pulling things apart. Tucker Carlson is around somewhere as well.
The big question is what will the end result be. The Republicans will not be able to impeach Joe Biden and he has 17 months or so left in office (The man should NOT be reelected). The FBI and the DOJ have protected Hunter Biden so far so where is that going to go?
The point of all of this is that both sides of the media equation have done and continue to do a lot of damage to our political process.
Even though they all feel they are trying to save that same process by exposing the wrongs committed by our leaders. That is part of the press’s job though, hold the political powers to account but for some reason I think it is once again much more personal than that.