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WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Press of Conformity: A case study in how the media stigmatize opposing vi?

By Glenn Reynolds

WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Press of Conformity: A case study in how the media stigmatize opposing views.

This is laughable coming from the crowd that spent four years pushing the Russia-Trump collusion narrative from 2016 that was ginned up and promoted by the Hillary Clinton campaign. They spun the claims of the Steele dossier, despite no supporting evidence and no on-the-record witnesses. Yet now they claim that on-the-record statements from a former Hunter Biden associate, along with emails and texts that the Biden campaign hasn?t disputed, should be kept from the public.

All of this is relevant beyond next week?s election. If Democrats win up and down the ballot, progressives will control the commanding heights of nearly every American elite institution: Congress, the administrative state, Hollywood and the arts, the universities, nonprofits, Silicon Valley and nearly all of the media.

Yet instead of playing watchdog for the public, today?s progressive press partisans devote themselves to attacking anyone who breaks from their orthodoxy. They denounce independent voices like Ms. Strassel with their Twitter brigades, then they unleash reporters who are ideological enforcers masquerading as media critics. They can?t tolerate any opposing political view. This is why Americans in record numbers don?t trust the media, and it?s why we will keep reporting the news others won?t.

If the press doesn’t want to be thought of as partisan garbage people, it should stop being partisan garbage people.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 26, 2020 (boomark / email).