Libertarian: Media Keep Insulting Parents
“Not a day goes by without the media comparing raucous school board meetings to the January 6 Capitol Hill riots, attributing the increase in parental outrage to racism,” gripes Reason’s Matt Welch. “Framing devices that distort the depiction of an important set of debates” include “exaggerating incidences of violence” at school-board meetings (a tiny handful “in a country of 14,000 or so school boards”) and “claiming that parental outrage is a contrived, ginned-up ‘culture war’ untethered from real-world concerns.” This “lopsided hyperbole and contempt” is “an insult to every last one of us who has dragged ass out to the local school meeting because we care about policies affecting our kids.”
Conservative: Hypocritical Progressive Elites
In “a social revolution in this country and the wider West in the past 50 years,” writes The Wall Street Journal’s Gerard Baker, “the left — which used to represent the interests of the outsiders, the disadvantaged — is in almost total control of the institutions of the establishment.” And “like masters through most of history — from tribal chiefs to Roman patricians, absolutist monarchs and totalitarian tyrants — their superiority is such that the rules they make don’t apply to them. They apply only to you, the unenlightened.” When they lecture on the need for sacrifice to fight COVID or climate change, “don’t think they’re talking about themselves.” “In the newspeak of progressive sanctimony, pronouns are different. . . . ‘We’ means you.”
From the left: Why the Media Went Woke
“The notion that America is an unrepentant white-supremacist state” has gone mainstream this last decade, “largely through liberal media outlets,” Batya Ungar-Sargon argues at Common Sense. Yet “the sudden market for this obsession with race and power” has “everything to do with class” as journalism has morphed into a high-status profession. It allows “journalists to pretend — indeed to believe — they are still speaking truth to power, still fighting on behalf of the little guy, even after they have themselves ascended to the ranks of the powerful, even when they are speaking down to an audience who, in more cases than not, have less than them on every measurable scale.” Indeed, “their enthusiasm for the language of wokeness has allowed affluent white liberals to perpetuate and even excuse a deeply unequal economic status quo.”
From the right: The F’book Whistleblower Op
Frances Haugen joined Facebook “in 2019 reportedly on the condition that she be assigned to its civic integrity unit, responsible for tracking ‘misinformation’ concerning the 2020 election,” the very unit that later suppressed The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop stories, Lee Smith notes at Tablet, charging that she’s now no whistleblower but “a political operative engaged in a campaign of corporate espionage and information warfare.” The purpose: “to weaken or destroy the social network that progressive elites . . . see as the central node for conservative communications.” Her chief consultant is Bill Burton, a former Obama deputy press secretary married to a top Democratic operative. And coverage of the so-called “Facebook Papers” is just “Burton’s team” distributing “prepackaged ‘reports’ to content providers who understand that their job is to print progressive elite talking points as news.”
Glasgow watch: Joe’s Energy Gift to US Rivals
“The Biden energy agenda being promoted across the globe is a win-win-win for U.S. rivals overseas,” points out The Federalist’s Tristan Justice. The president’s Build Back Better legislation, which he touted at the Glasgow climate summit, “pours billions into subsidies and tax credits for unreliable wind and solar,” which “not only promises to wreck the reliability of the U.S. power grid, as experienced in California and Texas with rolling blackouts, but also places heightened significance on Chinese imports.” Europe “imports much of its natural gas from Russia” and 85 percent “of China’s power comes from fossil fuels as it remains the world’s largest polluter with no intent of curbing its emissions,” yet “neither the Chinese or Russian president was in attendance at Glasgow.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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