By Steve Levy
In my book Bias in the Media, I laid out how the mainstream media has exhibited a brutally leftist bias for quite some time. However, a recent press release by the Guardian newspaper illustrates that fact as well as any fire-branded speech from me, or even a MAGA enthusiast.
The Guardian has always been known as a liberal media outlet, but it still tried to play the game that it was a respectable journalistic source.
However, a reading of its very own press release clearly shows that the paper is nothing more than a propaganda arm for the left.
Just look at how it describes its mission related to the Trump presidency. The press release doesn’t suggest that it will carefully scrutinize the actions of the Trump administration, as it should with this or any other administration. Rather, it notes that its publishers and editors are self-described advocates who will be at the forefront of seeking to stop the Trump administration.
Here are their exact words:
Throughout the tumultuous years of the first Trump presidency we never minimised or normalised the threat of his authoritarianism, and we treated his lies as a genuine danger to democracy, a threat that found its expression on 6 January 2021.
With Trump weeks away from taking office again – with dramatic implications for Ukraine and the Middle East, US democracy, reproductive rights, inequality and our collective environmental future – it’s time for us to redouble our efforts to hold the president-elect and those who surround him to account.
It’s going to be an enormous challenge.
If they actually have the gall to admit to this treacherous mission, how can any of us take them seriously as journalists? An article from the Guardian should be read with no more credibility than would a press release from the Democratic National Convention.
Let’s not forget how high-ranking, once-prestigious reporters claimed that journalists should no longer be impartial after Trump’s 2016 shocking win. They felt they had to put the thumb on the scale for the greater good in order to stop what they perceived to be the next Hitler.
Thereafter came one lie after another from these media outlets. Think the Russia Hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop being a Russian ploy, the Wuhan lab couldn’t be point zero for COVID, Joe is mentally competent, and the border is secure.
Is it any wonder that the public faith in the media is at an all-time low?
Steve Levy is President of Common Sense Strategies, a political consulting firm. He served as Suffolk County Executive, as a NYS Assemblyman, and host of “The Steve Levy Radio Show.” He is the author of “Solutions to America’s Problems” and “Bias in the Media.” www.SteveLevy.info, Twitter @SteveLevyNY, steve@commonsensestrategies.com