Few people can explain things like John Stossel can. The man’s videos are always a pleasure to watch, and he releases with some regularity, making him a fun follow on social media.
Stossel recently released a video that I feel is something that all people should see, and I don’t just mean in America. I really think this video should be viewed before election time because it truly highlights a massive problem the first world is having.
Our media is entirely corrupt, biased, and out of control.
In the video titled “Media Bias (and Not So Subtle) Ways Journalists Slant the News,” Stossel shows you just how simpering and worshiping the corporate media is at the feet of the Democrat Party. In the initial clips, you can see that despite the claim that the corporate media’s claim that it’s wholly unbiased, they do nothing to try to hide their disdain for the right and their fawning over the left.
The first clip shows a CNN reporter telling Kamala Harris that she’s “struck” by her presence. He displays how Donald Trump’s victory speeches were ignored by corporate news anchors, while Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s speeches were listened in on.
Stossel points out that it’s okay to point out when Trump lies, but it’s also good to do the same to Democrats, which the media just isn’t doing, giving several examples from Joe Biden. He even points out that he head of NPR is an avowed anti-Trump personality who openly claims he’s a “racist,” but called the BLM riots, including the destruction and looting, was a reaction to a “system of oppression.”
“She’s now the boss of government funded radio?” asked Stossel. “Yes!”
He then goes into how the press covers the border, pointing out how the press came down hard on Texas Governor Greg Abbott for enforcing border law, but had an almost reverent tone when talking about sanctuary cities.
If anyone is in resistance to anything considered leftist, the media will automatically label them as “far right,” and this includes, not just American politicians, but politicians abroad like Javier Milei, a libertarian who wouldn’t be considered “far right” by anyone paying attention.
Stossel also points out how they utilize scary language when discussing anything they don’t like, such as budget cuts, including using words like “drastic,” or “Draconian.”
Watch the video for yourself.
CNN reporters suck up to Kamala Harris. “I am struck, just in your presence!” one told her.
Interviewing Republicans, the tone is very different.
Here are examples: pic.twitter.com/Zd2Cm20bmr
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) October 28, 2024
This video highlights something that will ultimately cause it to fall into irrelevancy and collapse in on itself. The unmitigated bias of the corporate media is not sustainable, at least in this format. At some point, it’s going to have to change up how it operates, or at the very least, become far more neutral in its approach if it wants to exist in a world where its competition is private journalists with an internet connection.
Many internet personalities have biases as well, and they don’t attempt to hide them. However, they are quicker, more interesting, and fun, making the slow-moving corporate beast, with all its unserious seriousness, look ridiculous by comparison. You’re more likely to get up-to-date news on X than you are on CNN, which has to obey time slots, commercial breaks, and more in order to deliver you the latest.
As Stossel points out, there’s not much to the corporate media now in terms of quality.
In this day and age, it should be well understood by the first world that the media isn’t here to give you the news, it’s here to give you propaganda. It has no interest in telling the truth if the truth is inconvenient to the elite.
