When a war is about to begin or is just starting to kill countless combatants and innocent civilians, the American media can always be counted on to support it. They only advocate for peace when it’s far too late. This is the pattern we are witnessing now with Israel’s genocide in Gaza. After nearly two years and hundreds of thousands of Palestinian deaths, the American media is just beginning to express regret.
Thinking of Beginning to Consider Reconsidering
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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The media has completed its journey to irrelevance. Jake Tapper’s book “Original Sin” demonstrated that quite effectively. At no point in the book (if I missed it, I’d love to be told so) does he level any real criticism at his brethren and sistren in the media. The media almost never self-criticizes. “Golly Jeepers! We do a tough job and, gosh darn it, we do it pretty darned doodly well!” It’s never, “That we missed Biden’s complete mental implosion? Indefensible. Our jobs, definitionally, are to be on the look out for just that sort of thing. Clearly, we’re running an agenda of some kind that is not solidly predicated on ‘let the chips fall where they may, we have to report the truth.’ ”
Man, do I miss the alt press.
Yes!
The media showed us Biden. He couldn’t make a sentence but he was able to make decisions. It was all out there in the open (and I didn’t vote for him except when his opponent was Trump). That, collectively, we didn’t care (until we did) isn’t the fault of the media; it’s our fault.
The media has shown us the bad stuff that happened on October 7, 2023, in the months afterwards and in the decades beforehand. Again, the problem is us; collectively we yawn. That there is violence instead of dialog is because of we the people and the politicians we elect. The media is just the messenger, not the problem.
Disclaimers: (a) No primary source has gone on the record saying that Biden was worse behind closed doors. If that changes, only then might we blame the media for not discovering that sooner. (b) If you find every media source to have some bias then pay attention to multiple sources. Problem solved!