The Media s Cover-Up of John Fetterman – by Peter Savodnik
If anything, Burns, who has covered the race extensively, understated just how bad Fetterman s condition is.
I was in Pennsylvania a few weeks ago to report on the race, and the Fetterman campaign refused to make the candidate available. Now, it s obvious why they have limited media engagements to friendly venues like MSNBC, New York Magazine and The New York Times where reporters are, presumably, reticent to report anything that might be viewed as helping Republicans.
But there was no sympathetic journalist on stage with John Fetterman last night. What we were left with was reality. And reality was painful to watch.
Perhaps it shouldn t come as a surprise that the campaign is blaming the closed captioning system for being delayed and filled with errors. What s astonishing is how little so many journalists at some of our most storied news organizations respect normal Americans ability to use their eyes and ears.
The spin machine is already whirring away, with journalists claiming that it was the technology that was to blame or that Fetterman was brave to debate Oz or that, as Rebecca Traister put it, Fetterman should be lauded for his remarkable transparency. Josh Kraushaar, at Axios, was honest and ballsy enough to report that Democrats on Capitol Hill were left rattled by Fetterman s performance.
Far from shielding Fetterman from scrutiny, in the end too many journalists in the legacy media have simply revealed once again why they cannot be trusted. From Russiagate to the lab leak theory to the riots in the summer of 2020 to the effect of school closures during the pandemic, reporters seem increasingly incapable of reporting honestly and comprehensively on the most important issues of the day. Last night, for anyone who was watching the debate with eyes wide open, that much was indisputable.
“. . . [R]eporters seem increasingly incapable of reporting honestly and comprehensively on the most important issues of the day.” If anything, that’s understated. Perhaps it’s just another institution that has fallen to the Left gradually then all at once. Legacy media can be replaced and it will have to be. As for Fetterman, I feel sorry for the guy, though perhaps I shouldn’t. Not sorry enough to wish him into the Senate, though what Dr. Oz is, who knows.