Belief in media is at an all time low. Nobody disputes this, however individuals appear to have totally different concepts for a way this occurred.
Jim VandeHei, the founding father of Axios, not too long ago spoke to Bari Weiss of the Free Press and supplied three the explanation why he thinks this occurred. He will get it partially proper.
FOX Information stories:
“What occurred with Twitter is – individuals overlook now [since] it’s plenty of conservative voices, plenty of impartial voices – it was a hotbed of liberal groupthink for a very long time,” VandeHei mentioned. “And it was the primary time since I’ve been on this enterprise that I might get on a feed and I might see reporters who I had trusted, who I admired, making it crystal clear what aspect they had been on. You possibly can inform in what they had been tweeting, and you may inform in who they had been following and who was following them.”
He continued, “Then got here alongside, type of, the COVID, Defund the Police, phrase policing, the place I believe plenty of People had been wanting round going ‘that doesn’t sit proper with me.’ And the best way it’s being lined didn’t sit proper with them.”
VandeHei known as the media’s failure to correctly cowl Biden’s psychological state the ultimate straw for a lot of.
“Folks had been saying, ‘I can see with my very own two eyes that the man appears fairly outdated, in all probability doesn’t appear able to being the president within the subsequent time period and but there’s not a complete hell of plenty of protection of it,’” VandeHei mentioned.
Right here’s the video:
Axios founder @JimVandeHei says belief in American media collapsed in three phases.
1. Twitter uncovered the political bias of “goal” journalists.
2. Protection of Covid, “defund the police,” and phrase policing didn’t sit proper with People.
3. The shortage of protection round Joe… pic.twitter.com/aTpxAZQrYr
— Truthfully with Bari Weiss (@thehonestlypod) April 8, 2025
He’s proper about Twitter. It did expose the biases of many journalists, nevertheless it’s not as if individuals didn’t already know. On the second motive, the media did much more than somewhat speech policing. They canceled individuals and ruined their lives. They blocked the Hunter Biden laptop computer story from social media, and that was a lot greater than speech policing. Lastly, in case you watched the video, you heard him say that there are only some unhealthy apples within the media. That’s fully improper. The media is stuffed with individuals performing in unhealthy religion. Humorous he by no means mentions the Russia collusion hoax.
If the media desires to start out restoring belief, whole networks should be overhauled and lots of people should be fired.
