The Poynter Institute for Media Research is a left-wing hive of activists badly disguised as journalists. They run the very biased “reality checker” PolitiFact, and one in every of their executives (Kelly McBride) moonlights because the baldly boosterish “Public Editor” making excuses for Nationwide Public Radio.
Tom Jones – not the hip-swaying British pop singer – is their resident Brian Stelter, penning a each day media publication. Try this headline: “Fox Information goes all in on MAGA by including a Trump to the payroll…The community continues to hawk itself as a authentic information outlet. Hiring the sitting president’s daughter-in-law makes that declare indefensible.”
Fox Information is making a Saturday night time present hosted by Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of the sitting president. Similar to Stelter, Jones ripped Fox as “merely an extension of the Republican Get together and, particularly, a megaphone for Donald Trump and the MAGA motion…’Information’ actually doesn’t belong within the community’s title.”
He underlined it, with rhetorical Hello-Liter: “If Fox Information actually does see itself as a authentic information outlet, then the rent of Lara Trump is simply baffling…. Don’t they see the plain battle of curiosity?”
It’s very straightforward to level out that NBC Information employed Chelsea Clinton as an “goal” reporter. NBC nonetheless pays Jenna Bush as a morning-show host. However Jones stated that’s totally different – Trump is in workplace now, versus the previous First Daughters. Chelsea was making $600,000 a yr for doing lower than one fluffy characteristic story a month as her mom ready for a 2016 run for the White Home. She resigned earlier than it turned too apparent.
But when a information community is “not authentic” for hiring a Trump whereas Trump is president, what about hiring a Biden press secretary to host a weekend present whereas Biden remains to be president? Jones and Poynter didn’t see that as an issue for MSNBC – in any respect. Psaki was nonetheless within the White Home whereas she negotiated that deal.
They appear incapable of imagining anybody might write “MSNBC goes all in on Crew Brandon by including a White Home spokesman to the payroll.”
Jones greeted the Psaki information with pure gush: “Psaki has earned rave opinions for the job she has completed. Chris Wallace, again when he was with Fox Information, referred to as Psaki ‘among the best press secretaries ever.’”
What about Vice President Harris’s “chief spokesperson” Symone Sanders? In the exact same publication, Jones expressed zero considerations, simply this blurb: “The debut of Symone — MSNBC’s present hosted by Symone Sanders, a former senior adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris — debuts Saturday at 4 p.m.”
The headline on that publication was breezy: “A brand new press secretary, attention-grabbing reads and notable media tidbits to wrap up your media weight loss program for the week.”
When her weekend present Inside with Jen Psaki debuted in 2023, Jones posted a chunk with the tasteless headline “Jen Psaki formally enters the Sunday morning lineup.” He appreciated it simply wonderful. “Was it groundbreaking? Probably not. Was it totally different? A tad. However was it stable? Certain.” Including Psaki’s present to Monday nights a couple of months later? No drawback.
Once more, Jones discovered completely zero must surprise about conflicts. He didn’t discover it “baffling” that MSNBC would ignore the “apparent conflicts of curiosity.” Nothing was “indefensible.”
This is the reason conservatives don’t take the Democrat protection workforce of Stelter, Darcy, & Jones significantly once they preach about “authentic” information retailers and media ethics. Every little thing is situational on the Democrat facet. Apparently, there aren’t any conflicts of curiosity when everyone seems to be allied in “saving democracy” from Trump. “Journalism” and Democrat messaging are indistinguishable.
