Abramson: It IS the media

In Biden's recent interview he blamed in part the media for focusing on his bad debate performance instead of all of his other accomplishments and qualities. So we really need to ask why corporate media wants him out? Seth Abramson agrees:

"American corporate media needs to stop. It is arrogantly, unprofessionally, and even shamefully trying to shape the news it should be reporting on by demanding President Joe Biden’s head on a platter."

"The way we know that major media wants President Biden to end his presidential campaign—perhaps even resign the presidency—is not only that it’s using every tool at its disposal to make this happen, but that it’s dishonestly denying that it’s doing so."

"Indeed, corporate media continues to claim that in calling for President Biden’s head it’s merely echoing what it’s hearing from voters. But that’s untrue. What it’s doing, in fact, is echoing what one component of a go-to subcommunity of sources—big donors, lawmakers, political consultants, D.C. staffers, retired Democratic politicos, and even corporate lobbyists—is saying about the current President of the United States. And it is treating its MAGA sources as relevant voices on the matter of whether a Democratic president should retire, after nine years of correctly judging it rather beside the point whether Democratic sources think Donald Trump should retire from politics and even public life. It’s presenting opinions as reporting, speculation as fact, personal bias and “what we all saw with our eyes and heard with our ears” as a homespun gospel."