The American Conservative
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Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the circumstances surrounding the “Trump-Russia collusion” controversy has raised the issue of media bias.
David Gergen: Conventional wisdom on the right holds that Joe Biden has been spared the burden of having to manage a succession of difficult problems by a sympathetic press.
Gergen asks whether the president has, in fact, been helped by his media supporters.
Of all the left-leaning media outlets, only the Daily Beast seems to have figured out that slanted the news to advance a favored policy or favored public official does not always work out the way today’s progressive journalism school professors want aspiring reporters to believe.
Reporters of all political persuasions best serve the country when they heed the wisdom of modern psychology, which has taught that the average person is far more sensitive to being manipulated than generally supposed.
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