Holy crap. The White House sent letters to major outlets, demanding their reporters go after the House GOP over its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
Can you imagine the outrage if President Donald Trump’s White House sent a letter to the media demanding the same actions?
Oliver Darcy at CNN did not provide a copy of the letter:
“It’s time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies,” Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House Counsel’s Office, wrote in the letter, which was first obtained by CNN.The letter, which said an impeachment inquiry with no supporting evidence should “set off alarm bells for news organizations,” was sent to executives helming the nation’s largest news organizations, including CNN, The New York Times, Fox News, the Associated Press, CBS News, and others, a White House official familiar with the matter said.
In its letter Wednesday, the White House asked news organizations to be more clear-eyed in their coverage of the impeachment inquiry, and not to fall prey to the traps of false equivalency in reporting.“Covering impeachment as a process story – Republicans say X, but the White House says Y – is a disservice to the American public who relies on the independent press to hold those in power accountable,” Sams wrote.“And in the modern media environment, where every day liars and hucksters peddle disinformation and lies everywhere from Facebook to Fox, process stories that fail to unpack the illegitimacy of the claims on which House Republicans are basing all their actions only serve to generate confusion, put false premises in people’s feeds, and obscure the truth,” Sams added.
The Democrats never hide their attempts to persuade the press. Not that they need to since 99% of the major outlets have leftist leaning.
In 2009, President Barack Obama’s White House shut out Fox News from the five White House pool networks.
Thankfully, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and NBC fought back against the White House. The administration said Fox News “is not a news organization.”
CNN doesn’t deserve props for reporting on the letter, though.
I think the impeachment inquiry might backfire on the GOP. It provides the Democrats and their liberal media buddies with an out.
Biden’s favorite Washington Post reporter said Biden is too old. The media has started reporting that Biden lied about knowing about Hunter’s business dealings.
The letter gives the left more ammunition to push out Biden and prop up someone even worse than him.
I’m not saying the impeachment inquiry isn’t legit. Just…be careful.
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