Dozens of National Public Radio (NPR) employees signed on to a letter suggesting that their now-former senior business editor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Uri Berliner</a> was spot on in his assessment of the liberal bias that has taken over the network.
New York Times media reporter Ben Mullin shared screenshots of the letter, addressed to CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nprs-new-ceo-scolds-25-year-veteran-for-expose-outing-networks-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katherine Maher</a> and Editor in Chief <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-chief-hits-back-at-whistleblower-who-says-colleagues-secretly-agree" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Edith Chapin</a>, which claimed that Berliner&#8217;s essay in The Free Press had left many of them feeling as though they&#8217;d been personally attacked.
&#8220;About 50 NPR employees sign a letter to CEO Katherine Maher and top editor Edith Chapin calling for, among other things, a public rebuke of the &#8216;factual inaccuracies and elisions&#8217; in Uri Berliner’s Free Press essay,&#8221; Mullin&#8217;s caption read.
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&#8220;We&#8217;re writing to urge stronger support for staff who have had their journalistic expertise called into question by one of their own in a public forum,&#8221; the letter read. &#8220;We also urge more transparency regarding the consequences of making unauthorized public comments that seek to change NPR&#8217;s editorial direction.&#8221;
The letter went on to say that while both Chapin and Maher had shared their objections to Berliner&#8217;s claims — namely that the outlet been wholly disinterested in presenting stories that might hurt President Joe Biden or help former President Donald Trump — the employees were concerned that their efforts to spur policy changes through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives were being undermined by Berliner&#8217;s public comments.
&#8220;Staff, many from marginalized backgrounds, have pushed for internal policy changes through mechanisms like the DEI accountability committee, sharing of affinity group guidelines, and an ad-hoc content review group,&#8221; they wrote, complaining that Berliner was getting more attention and apparent change from a short essay than they had after years of work.
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Their concern on that point, they said, was that others within the network might get the idea that a pointed editorial was more effective at forcing change than going through proper channels.
They also complained that Berliner&#8217;s essay had &#8220;made their jobs harder&#8221; and called on Maher and Chapin to clearly &#8220;offer public support and defense of those individuals whose work was directly undermined by the opinion piece.&#8221;

US-BUSINESS-NPR

Dozens Of NPR Employees Write Letter Proving Uri Berliner Was Right About Everything

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U.S.

Senior Business Editor Uri Berliner is resigning from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-public-radio-npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Public Radio (NPR)</a> a little more than a week after he publicly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> the network of espousing left-wing bias in an essay.
In a post to X on Wednesday, Berliner shared what he said was his resignation letter to NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nprs-new-ceo-scolds-25-year-veteran-for-expose-outing-networks-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lashed out</a> at the editor&#8217;s critique and has faced blowback over old tweets.
&#8220;I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years,&#8221; Berliner said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t support calls to defund NPR. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism.&#8221;
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My resignation letter to NPR CEO <a href="https://twitter.com/krmaher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@krmaher</a> <a href="https://t.co/0hafVbcZAK">pic.twitter.com/0hafVbcZAK</a>
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He added, &#8220;But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay.&#8221;
The Free Press <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;fbclid=IwAR2BI7aGsLrw5JzADcxw-Ddx9IFpaQzQxVieieHiYiYvBozjQ3W_q8XSMoY_aem_Afb8djuPsGMotINI-8VtH0_ouA2n_5T1rMS3kvz8x_-AGiNOlKuozOh6WEdCnd1xeok&amp;triedRedirect=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> the essay on Tuesday last week in which Berliner argued NPR &#8220;lost America&#8217;s trust&#8221; with its increasingly liberal bent.
His critique touched on topics related to former President Donald Trump, NPR&#8217;s COVID coverage, reporting on transgender issues, audience figures, the network&#8217;s own level of diversity, and more.
Berliner additionally wrote about how he tried to make some of his concerns known internally. He said no one ever &#8220;trashed&#8221; him, but he was repeatedly brushed off and nothing changed.
On Tuesday of this week, NPR&#8217;s media correspondent David Folkenflik reported that Berliner had received a letter informing him that he had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-suspends-editor-who-accused-network-of-bias-issues-final-warning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> without pay for five days starting on Friday.
NPR told Berliner he failed to follow the network&#8217;s rules and get approval for outside work for other news outlets. Berliner was also accused of publicly releasing proprietary information about audience demographics that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a> considered confidential.
The letter, billed as a &#8220;final warning,&#8221; said Berliner would be fired for another policy violation. Berliner conceded he did not get permission to speak with Folkenflik, but said he thought it would be &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; if he were fired for speaking to an NPR journalist.
In the backlash that followed the essay, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-for-cutting-npr-funds-after-editor-accuses-network-of-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> NPR&#8217;s funding be cut. And Maher, who has served as NPR&#8217;s chief executive for less than a month, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nprs-new-ceo-scolds-25-year-veteran-for-expose-outing-networks-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condemned</a> the &#8220;deeply simplistic&#8221; and &#8220;profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning&#8221; assessment.
Old tweets from Maher that displayed her personal views in favor of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/business/media/npr-chief-executive-criticized-over-tweets.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">liberal causes</a> began to resurface as the fallout over Berliner&#8217;s essay and follow-up interviews began to grow, fueling more criticism, particularly from the Right.
Maher called Trump a &#8220;racist&#8221; in a <a href="https://archive.is/9Egnx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018 post</a> that has since been deleted and shared a <a href="https://twitter.com/krmaher/status/1323094291732815872" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photo</a> of herself wearing a hat touting President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign in November of 2020.
Journalist Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, posted to X on Wednesday a clip of Maher talking about the First Amendment and platforms dealing with &#8220;bad information.&#8221;
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EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says the &quot;the number one challenge&quot; in her fight against disinformation is &quot;the First Amendment in the United States,&quot; which makes it &quot;a little bit tricky&quot; to censor &quot;bad information&quot; and &quot;the influence peddlers&quot; who spread it.
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Berliner told Folkenflik the posts indicate Maher is the &#8220;opposite&#8221; of the kind of leader NPR needs to be &#8220;unifying and bring more people into the tent and have a broader perspective on, sort of, what America is all about.&#8221;
Maher released a statement that said &#8220;everyone is entitled to free speech as a private citizen&#8221; in America.
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&#8220;What matters is NPR&#8217;s work and my commitment as its CEO: public service, editorial independence, and the mission to serve all of the American public,&#8221; she added. &#8220;NPR is independent, beholden to no party, and without commercial interests.&#8221;
The report from Folkenflik noted that NPR emphasized that &#8220;the CEO is not involved in editorial decisions.&#8221;
Folkenflik wrote that some in the newsroom acknowledge Berliner&#8217;s critique as valid, while others say they are no longer willing to work with him.
NPR&#8217;s chief news executive, Edith Chapin, reportedly announced that Executive Editor Eva Rodriguez would lead monthly coverage review meetings. Berliner reportedly said he welcomed the announcement but would reserve judgment until those meetings happen.

NPR Editor Who Accused Network Of Liberal Bias Resigns

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-public-radio-npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Public Radio (NPR)</a> has suspended Senior Business Editor Uri Berliner after he publicly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> the network of espousing left-wing bias with an essay that began a media firestorm.
Last week, Berliner received a letter that informed him of a five-day suspension without pay beginning Friday, according to a <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244962042/npr-editor-uri-berliner-suspended-essay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> by NPR&#8217;s media correspondent David Folkenflik.
NPR told Berliner he failed to follow the network&#8217;s rules and get approval for outside work for other news outlets after his <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;fbclid=IwAR2BI7aGsLrw5JzADcxw-Ddx9IFpaQzQxVieieHiYiYvBozjQ3W_q8XSMoY_aem_Afb8djuPsGMotINI-8VtH0_ouA2n_5T1rMS3kvz8x_-AGiNOlKuozOh6WEdCnd1xeok&amp;triedRedirect=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">essay</a> for The Free Press and follow-up interviews.
Berliner was also accused of publicly releasing proprietary information about audience demographics that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a> considered confidential, per the report.
The letter, which was called a &#8220;final warning,&#8221; said Berliner would be fired for another policy violation.
Berliner, a dues-paying member of NPR&#8217;s newsroom union, told Folkenflik that he would not appeal the punishment.
He claimed the figures discussed in his essay &#8220;were essentially marketing material. If they had been really good, they probably would have distributed them and sent them out to the world.&#8221;
Berliner conceded that he did not get permission to speak with Folkenflik, but said he thought it would be &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; if he were fired for speaking to an NPR journalist.
The Free Press <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;fbclid=IwAR2BI7aGsLrw5JzADcxw-Ddx9IFpaQzQxVieieHiYiYvBozjQ3W_q8XSMoY_aem_Afb8djuPsGMotINI-8VtH0_ouA2n_5T1rMS3kvz8x_-AGiNOlKuozOh6WEdCnd1xeok&amp;triedRedirect=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> the essay on Tuesday last week in which Berliner argued NPR &#8220;lost America&#8217;s trust&#8221; with its increasingly liberal bent.
His critique touched on topics related to former President Donald Trump, NPR&#8217;s COVID coverage, reporting on transgender issues, audience figures, the network&#8217;s own level of diversity, and more.
Berliner additionally wrote about how he tried to make some of his concerns known internally. He said no one ever &#8220;trashed&#8221; him, but he was repeatedly brushed off and nothing changed.
In the public backlash that followed the essay, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-for-cutting-npr-funds-after-editor-accuses-network-of-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> that NPR&#8217;s funding be cut. Despite his critique, Berliner said &#8220;defunding&#8221; was not the way to address the &#8220;missteps&#8221; he outlined.
NPR&#8217;s chief executive of less than a month, Katherine Maher, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nprs-new-ceo-scolds-25-year-veteran-for-expose-outing-networks-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lashed out</a> at the &#8220;deeply simplistic&#8221; and &#8220;profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning&#8221; essay without mentioning Berliner&#8217;s name.
After Berliner&#8217;s essay was published, old tweets from Maher resurfaced that displayed her personal views in favor of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/business/media/npr-chief-executive-criticized-over-tweets.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">liberal causes,</a> fueling more criticism, particularly from the Right.
Maher called Trump a &#8220;racist&#8221; in a <a href="https://archive.is/9Egnx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018 post</a> that has since been deleted and shared a <a href="https://twitter.com/krmaher/status/1323094291732815872" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photo</a> of herself wearing a hat touting President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign in November of 2020.
Berliner said the posts indicate Maher is the &#8220;opposite&#8221; of the kind of leader NPR needs to be &#8220;unifying and bring more people into the tent and have a broader perspective on, sort of, what America is all about.&#8221;
Maher released a statement that said &#8220;everyone is entitled to free speech as a private citizen&#8221; in America.
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&#8220;What matters is NPR&#8217;s work and my commitment as its CEO: public service, editorial independence, and the mission to serve all of the American public,&#8221; she added. &#8220;NPR is independent, beholden to no party, and without commercial interests.&#8221;
The report noted that NPR emphasized that &#8220;the CEO is not involved in editorial decisions.&#8221;
Folkenflik wrote that some in the newsroom acknowledge Berliner&#8217;s critique as valid, while others say they are no longer willing to work with him.
The report said NPR&#8217;s chief news executive, Edith Chapin, announced late Monday that Executive Editor Eva Rodriguez would lead monthly coverage review meetings.
Berliner reportedly said he welcomed the announcement but would reserve judgment until those meetings happen.

NPR HQ

NPR Suspends Editor Who Accused Network Of Bias, Issues ‘Final Warning’

NPR Suspends Editor Who Accused Network Of Bias, Issues 'Final Warning'

National Public Radio (NPR) CEO and president Katherine Maher <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-extra/2024/04/12/1244456600/from-npr-president-and-ceo-katherine-maher-thoughts-on-our-mission-and-our-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lashed out</a> at senior Editor Uri Berliner over a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scathing op-ed</a> he wrote for The Free Press — in which he claimed that NPR had displayed political bias on a number of occasions and, in doing so, had &#8220;lost America&#8217;s trust.&#8221;
Maher, who stepped into her role at NPR just three weeks ago, claimed that Berliner&#8217;s assessment — made after 25 years with the outlet — was &#8220;deeply simplistic&#8221; as well as &#8220;profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.&#8221;
Without mentioning Berliner by name — or giving any specifics with regard to his comments — Maher simply claimed that NPR was devoted to providing information to the public, and that the outlet&#8217;s &#8220;service to this aspirational mission was called in question this week.&#8221;
&#8220;Asking a question about whether we&#8217;re living up to our mission should always be fair game: after all, journalism is nothing if not hard questions,&#8221; Maher continued. &#8220;Questioning whether our people are serving our mission with integrity, based on little more than the recognition of their identity, is profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.&#8221;
Maher went on to suggest that Berliner&#8217;s assessment of bias had been based on his own objections to a diverse workplace — when, in fact, he had given a series of examples where diversity of thought had either not been present or had been actively shut down.
&#8220;It is deeply simplistic to assert that the diversity of America can be reduced to any particular set of beliefs, and faulty reasoning to infer that identity is determinative of one&#8217;s thoughts or political leanings,&#8221; Maher claimed. &#8220;Each of our colleagues are here because they are excellent, accomplished professionals with an intense commitment to our work: we are stronger because of the work we do together, and we owe each other our utmost respect. We fulfill our mission best when we look and sound like the country we serve.&#8221;
Maher&#8217;s objections raised eyebrows after a number of her old Twitter posts came to light, revealing her personal political leanings.
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NPR&#39;s new CEO is just as insane as you&#39;d expect her to be <a href="https://t.co/BDob66lNne">pic.twitter.com/BDob66lNne</a>
&mdash; Nate Hochman (@njhochman) <a href="https://twitter.com/njhochman/status/1779632231226503196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Two years ago I made a commitment to never step on a speaker&#39;s stage without talking about our climate crisis. It is the world we have built and our responsibility to confront. <a href="https://t.co/nSH8hDas5r">https://t.co/nSH8hDas5r</a>
&mdash; Katherine Maher (@krmaher) <a href="https://twitter.com/krmaher/status/1426066179832041472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Now can we end the filibuster?
&mdash; Katherine Maher (@krmaher) <a href="https://twitter.com/krmaher/status/1374265831249518594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2021</a></blockquote>
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If we can basically agree people should wear a mask to the grocery store because it&#39;s in the best interests of most of us, we should also be able to protect the vast majority of us who want to go to the grocery store (and other public venues) without risk of fatal gun violence.
&mdash; Katherine Maher (@krmaher) <a href="https://twitter.com/krmaher/status/1374264135777619968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Web Summit Qatar 2024 – Day One

NPR’s New CEO Scolds 25-Year Veteran For Exposé Outing Network’s Bias

NPR's New CEO Scolds 25-Year Veteran For Exposé Outing Network's Bias

Politics

Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>, who is running another campaign for the White House, demanded this week that funding be cut from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-public-radio-npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Public Radio (NPR)</a> after a longtime NPR editor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> the network of espousing left-wing bias.
&#8220;NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO &#8216;DAMAGE TRUMP.&#8217; THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112248653824267212" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to Truth Social on Wednesday.
The Free Press published an <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> on Tuesday in which NPR Senior Business Editor Uri Berliner argued NPR &#8220;lost America&#8217;s trust&#8221; with its increasingly liberal bent. Despite his critique, Berliner said &#8220;defunding&#8221; was not the way to address the &#8220;missteps&#8221; he outlined.
&#8220;As the country becomes more fractured, there’s still a need for a public institution where stories are told and viewpoints exchanged in good faith. Defunding, as a rebuke from Congress, wouldn’t change the journalism at NPR. That needs to come from within,&#8221; he said.
Multiple times during his presidency, Trump <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/02/donald-trump-public-media-pbs-npr-1202856498/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> reining in funding for public media, but Congress did not take him up on the cuts. If he is re-elected this year, that could change. As noted in a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/11/trump-tightens-stranglehold-on-congressional-gop-00151629" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO report</a> after the House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-blocks-fisa-spy-bill-opponents-demand-warrant-requirement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked the advancement of a FISA bill</a> that Trump opposed, the former president is &#8220;tightening his stranglehold on the congressional GOP’s policy agenda.&#8221;
When NPR <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-ditches-twitter-over-actions-that-undermine-our-credibility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ditched</a> Twitter (now X) last year after being slapped with labels linking it to the U.S. government, the network <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> it &#8220;receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.&#8221; Still, on its website, NPR says federal funding is <a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;essential&#8221;</a> and that ending it &#8220;would result in fewer programs, less journalism — especially local journalism—and eventually the loss of public radio stations, particularly in rural and economically distressed communities.&#8221;
In his op-ed, Berliner talked about how the &#8220;rise of advocacy took off&#8221; when Trump got elected to the White House in the 2016 election when he defeated Hillary Clinton.
&#8220;As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair. (Just to note, I eagerly voted against Trump twice but felt we were obliged to cover him fairly),&#8221; Berliner said. &#8220;But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency.&#8221;
Berliner discussed how NPR interviewed Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) dozens of times, during which he often spoke about there being evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia, but the network offered up &#8220;notably sparse&#8221; coverage when Robert Mueller&#8217;s special counsel report released in 2019 found &#8220;no credible evidence of collusion&#8221; and let Russiagate &#8220;fade&#8221; from its programming.
&#8220;It is one thing to swing and miss on a major story. Unfortunately, it happens,&#8221; Berliner said. &#8220;You follow the wrong leads, you get misled by sources you trusted, you’re emotionally invested in a narrative, and bits of circumstantial evidence never add up. It’s bad to blow a big story.&#8221;
The editor shared an anecdote about the Hunter Biden laptop story, which emerged prior to the 2020 election, saying it was &#8220;newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched. During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump.&#8221;
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Berliner also said he found 87 registered Democrats and zero Republicans working editorial positions in D.C., where NPR is headquartered, but when he shared the data in a staff meeting and suggested there was a diversity problem, &#8220;the response wasn’t hostile. It was worse. It was met with profound indifference.&#8221;
NPR Editor-in-Chief Edith Chapin <a href="https://twitter.com/BenMullin/status/1777773343267062201" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a statement saying that she and her colleagues on the leadership team &#8220;strongly disagree with Uri’s assessment of the quality of our journalism and the integrity of our newsroom processes.&#8221; She also said, &#8220;We&#8217;re proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories.&#8221;

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Multiple media outlets, liberal pundits, and pretty much everyone who can&#8217;t stand former President Donald Trump engaged in a virtual feeding frenzy over the weekend, frothing at the mouth over his campaign rally comment promising a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; if his 2024 presidential bid is unsuccessful.
Anyone reading the headlines published by a number of mainstream outlets might believe that Trump was not just predicting, but calling for, political violence if he were to lose another election.
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<li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/us/politics/trump-speech-ohio.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>: Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses</li>
<li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/17/trump-verbal-gaffes-ohio-rally-bloodbath" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a>: Trump predicts ‘bloodbath’ if he loses election and claims ‘Biden beat Obama’</li>
<li><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-bloodbath-loses-election-2024-rcna143746" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>: Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses the election</li>
<li><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/16/trump-bloodbath-biden-november-00147453" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a>: Trump says country faces ‘bloodbath’ if Biden wins in November</li>
<li><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-bloodbath-no-elections-ohio-rally-1234989056/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rolling Stone</a>: Trump Says There Will Be a ‘Bloodbath’ and Elections Will End if He Isn’t Reelected</li>
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President Joe Biden&#8217;s reelection campaign <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-campaign-slams-trump-political-violence-warning-bloodbath-discussing-auto-industry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">openly accused Trump</a> of wanting another riot on Capitol Hill — a repeat of what happened on January 6th, 2021.
The campaign blasted Trump as a &#8220;loser&#8221; who &#8220;doubles down on his threats of political violence,&#8221; adding, &#8220;He wants another January 6.&#8221;
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Biden-Harris campaign statement on Trump tonight promising a “bloodbath” if he loses <a href="https://t.co/8mBYh4QKnf">pic.twitter.com/8mBYh4QKnf</a>
&mdash; Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1769163262283706801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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But while those outlets and others were only too happy to share that one cherry-picked line — Trump predicts &#8216;bloodbath&#8217; if he loses in November — they were equally happy to leave out the fact that at the time, he was specifically talking about the automobile industry and the economic impact of a company owned by Communist China building cars in Mexico to avoid U.S. tariffs
Here&#8217;s the full context of the &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; comment, which he said was addressed to Chinese President Xi Jinping:
<blockquote>Those big monster car manufacturing plants you are building in Mexico right now and you think you are going to get that — not hire Americans and you’re going to sell the car to us, no.
We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole – that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it.</blockquote>
The lack of context displayed by many media outlets did not go unnoticed, however, and some shared side-by-side comparisons of the mainstream media headlines and Trump&#8217;s actual words.
&#8220;We are witnessing the invention of the &#8216;bloodbath&#8217; hoax in real time,&#8221; one captioned the comparison.
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We are witnessing the invention of the &quot;bloodbath&quot; hoax in real-time
Unfortunately for them, we have 𝕏
Media narrative: Full context: <a href="https://t.co/jaYDvtGomn">pic.twitter.com/jaYDvtGomn</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1769245792831701070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Grabien media founder Tom Elliott followed with a video supercut of liberal media pundits using the term &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; to describe everything from economic issues and Taylor Swift ticket snafus to midterm election results and the recent shake-up in leadership at the Republican National Committee.
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SUPERCUT! 
Trump critics would never use a term like “bloodbath” <a href="https://t.co/6dSTMwsfJa">pic.twitter.com/6dSTMwsfJa</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1769455728941547695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Media’s Wall-To-Wall Coverage Of Trump ‘Bloodbath’ Comment Delivers Zero Context

Media's Wall-To-Wall Coverage Of Trump 'Bloodbath' Comment Delivers Zero Context

Legacy media outlets and the Biden-Harris campaign are facing blowback for picking up on former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> predicting a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; if he does not win a second term in 2024 while concealing that he was talking about the auto industry.
Contextless headlines arose from Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/endwokeness/status/1769245792831701070?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> in Ohio on Saturday, less than a week after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-locks-up-gop-nomination-after-racking-up-4-more-primary-victories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surpassed</a> the requisite threshold of delegates — 1,215 — to secure the GOP presidential nomination, paving the way to a 2020 rematch against President Joe Biden in the general election.
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We are witnessing the invention of the &quot;bloodbath&quot; hoax in real-time
Unfortunately for them, we have 𝕏
Media narrative: Full context: <a href="https://t.co/jaYDvtGomn">pic.twitter.com/jaYDvtGomn</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1769245792831701070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;China now is building a couple of massive plants where they&#8217;re going to build the cars in Mexico and think, they think, that they&#8217;re going to sell those cars into the United States with no tax at the border,&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;Let me tell you something to China, if you&#8217;re listening President Xi, and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you&#8217;re building in Mexico right now and you think you&#8217;re going to get that, you&#8217;re going to not hire Americans and you&#8217;re going to sell the cars to us?&#8221;
Trump added, &#8220;No. We&#8217;re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you&#8217;re not going be able to sell those cars. If I get elected. Now, if I don&#8217;t get elected, it&#8217;s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it.&#8221; Trump then continued talking about cars and factories.
The media coverage that ensued suggested that Trump was making a far more foreboding and potentially violent prediction for the country if he were to be defeated in November.
&#8220;Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses the election,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-bloodbath-loses-election-2024-rcna143746" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News&#8217; headline blared</a>. &#8220;In Ohio campaign rally, Trump says there will be a &#8216;bloodbath&#8217; if he loses November election,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-campaign-rally-trump-says-there-will-be-bloodbath-if-he-loses-november-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said another from CBS News</a>. A <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-bloodbath-no-elections-ohio-rally-1234989056/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">third from Rolling Stone trumpeted,</a> &#8220;Trump Says There Will Be a ‘Bloodbath’ and Elections Will End if He Isn’t Reelected.&#8221;
The list goes on. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/16/trump-bloodbath-biden-november-00147453" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO bore a similar headline</a> and noted in its report, &#8220;While it was unclear what the former president meant exactly, the remarks came as Trump was complaining about the automobile industry.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s campaign <a href="https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1769163262283706801" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a statement</a> on the &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; remark without a single mention of cars but repeated mentions of violence.
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Biden-Harris campaign statement on Trump tonight promising a “bloodbath” if he loses <a href="https://t.co/8mBYh4QKnf">pic.twitter.com/8mBYh4QKnf</a>
&mdash; Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1769163262283706801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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But not everyone took the lockstep approach. Indeed, Trump&#8217;s allies fired back and the coverage, as did those who are not exactly close to the former president.
<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/21/matt-stoller-hawley-trust-busting-00092679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leftist activist</a> Matt Stoller <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1769182084390629540" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to the statement from Biden&#8217;s team, saying, &#8220;This statement is a straight up lie. Trump was talking about what would happen to the domestic auto industry without tariffs on Chinese cars made in Mexico.&#8221;
Denver Riggelman, a former congressman who has been <a href="https://www.forbesmiddleeast.com/leadership/leaders/im-sick-of-it-gop-rep-denver-riggleman-unloads-on-republican-colleagues-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critical</a> of Trump and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/politics/denver-riggleman-republican-party-cnntv/index.html#:~:text=Riggleman%2C%20who%20worked%20as%20a,now%20considers%20himself%20an%20independent." target="_blank" rel="noopener">cut ties</a> with the GOP, <a href="https://twitter.com/repriggleman/status/1769151164895875154?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=ncl_amplify&amp;utm_campaign=240317-biden_and_the_media_team_up_to_spread_a_desperate_lie&amp;utm_content=ncl-yfsbbt9cFu&amp;_nlid=yfsbbt9cFu&amp;_nhids=%25recipient.hids%25" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said on X</a>, &#8220;In a speech today Trump refers to a &#8216;bloodbath&#8217; if he doesn’t [win]. In context, he is referring to a &#8216;bloodbath&#8217; economically for the auto industry if he’s not elected— I watched the entire portion.&#8221;
Indeed, Merriam-Webster&#8217;s <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloodbath?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=ncl_amplify&amp;utm_campaign=240317-biden_and_the_media_team_up_to_spread_a_desperate_lie&amp;utm_content=ncl-MPbnBQF2q2&amp;_nlid=MPbnBQF2q2&amp;_nhids=%recipient.hids%" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dictionary</a> notes that a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; can mean &#8220;a major economic disaster,&#8221; which would match what the former president was discussing.
&#8220;I will grant It’s extreme—and ridiculous—but there is context. All of you know I’m the first to call out violent rhetoric but I try and make sure to get the whole picture,&#8221; Riggelman added.
Make America Great Again Inc., a super PAC supporting Trump, highlighted some pushback in a <a href="https://maga.nucleusemail.com/amplify/v/3DV9NsXtNc?hids=J6riDRX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> titled &#8220;Biden And The Media Team Up To Spread A Desperate Lie.&#8221;
Alex Pfeiffer, a spokesman for the group, said, &#8220;Joe Biden is allowing China to take over the car industry and Americans are being laid off left and right. It is an economic disaster that only President Donald Trump can turn around.&#8221;
Jason Miller, an adviser to Trump, joined with others in taking particular aim at POLITICO&#8217;s coverage.
&#8220;The future of American journalism is bleak,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1769156700534448220" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X after highlighting the passage in the report that notes Trump was in the middle of talking about the auto industry.
Pfeiffer even asked the author of the report if POLITICO would be issuing a retraction.
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Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/MyahWard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MyahWard</a> when are you retracting this article? You write, &quot;While it was unclear what the former president meant exactly.&quot; Is it standard practice for you to cover events you don&#39;t watch? He was talking about the car manufacturing industry. <a href="https://t.co/QNVNqOdTUq">pic.twitter.com/QNVNqOdTUq</a> <a href="https://t.co/TDtPpZuwBl">https://t.co/TDtPpZuwBl</a>
&mdash; Alex Pfeiffer (@__Pfeiffer) <a href="https://twitter.com/__Pfeiffer/status/1769130803101929980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Among the others who sounded off on the controversy was billionaire tech entrepreneur and X owner Elon Musk. &#8220;Legacy media lies,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1769347889392730271?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=ncl_amplify&amp;utm_campaign=240317-biden_and_the_media_team_up_to_spread_a_desperate_lie&amp;utm_content=ncl-2X8A5ZdQ8t&amp;_nlid=2X8A5ZdQ8t&amp;_nhids=%25recipient.hids%25" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said on X</a> in response to a post about the media coverage of Trump&#8217;s remarks.
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&#8220;Donald Trump said that a bloodbath would happen to the American auto industry if Biden kept on promoting Chinese made EVs. He of course is 100 percent correct. All other reporting about his &#8216;bloodbath&#8217; comment is complete propaganda. The media should be ashamed,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1769329128606773700" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) <a href="https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1769346102472360199" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;The Democrats and the media lie constantly about what Pres Trump says. They twist his phrases and sarcasm and tell the public he said something he did not. When Trump said there will be a bloodbath if Biden wins, he was talking about the auto industry and he’s RIGHT!&#8221;

‘Complete Propaganda’: Media And Biden Campaign Blasted Over Coverage Of Trump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Prediction

'Complete Propaganda': Media And Biden Campaign Blasted Over Coverage Of Trump's 'Bloodbath' Prediction

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/associated-press">Associated Press</a> is being criticized for its coverage of the murder of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/georgia">Georgia</a> college student Laken Riley, with many social media users accusing the outlet of failing to report key details of the case that didn’t fit the desired narrative.
Riley, 22, was a nursing student at Augusta University. She was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/murder">killed</a> last week while out running on the University of Georgia trails. Venezuelan native Jose Antonia Ibarra was taken into custody shortly after and was already known to law enforcement after being arrested for other crimes.
It was suspected that Ibarra entered the United States <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration">unlawfully</a> after the local police chief on Friday said he &#8220;is not a U.S. citizen.&#8221; On Friday night, NewsNation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-arrested-for-murder-of-georgia-nursing-student-was-illegal-immigrant-report">cited</a> &#8220;multiple DHS sources&#8221; that said Ibarra is in the United States illegally, a fact which was later <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jose-ibarra-suspect-murder-georgia-nursing-student-illegal-entry-venezuela/">confirmed</a> by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Sunday. An AP story published on Saturday didn’t mention his citizenship status, referring to him only as an “Athens resident.” 
The title of the article also deflected the central details of the crime. It was published under the header, “The killing of a nursing student out for a run highlights the fears of solo female athletes.”
Social media users stated their criticism of alleged <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/media-bias">media bias</a> as tensions about U.S. border security and citizen safety continue to be trending topics nationwide.
“The corporate media will blame a woman for exercising alone before blaming an illegal alien for killing her,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ press secretary Christina Pushaw <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1761802129872675237">wrote</a> in reply to the article link on X. 
“Entire article is a disgrace,” another person agreed.
“Really? You want to try that again… maybe add something about illegal immigrants being released from sanctuary cities after they’ve been arrested only to go to a different state where they can commit more crime?” a third person echoed.
A popular tweet from conservative commentator Mary Katharine Ham summed up the situation from her perspective. 
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Hi, female athlete here. I ran this exact trail every single week of my college career. I guess I could have been snuffed out before I graduated, had a career, family, and the professionals at the AP would lie about the suspect bc it fits a preferred narrative. Ibarra is not… <a href="https://t.co/8V5AQVRo9l">https://t.co/8V5AQVRo9l</a>
&mdash; Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) <a href="https://twitter.com/mkhammer/status/1761780170686415253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“Hi, female athlete here,” she wrote. “I ran this exact trail every single week of my college career. I guess I could have been snuffed out before I graduated, had a career, family, and the professionals at the AP would lie about the suspect bc it fits a preferred narrative.&#8221;
She continued, “Ibarra is not merely an ‘Athens resident,’ and Laken Riley and every other student was put in danger by not enforcing laws and allowing a man arrested 3x after crossing the border to hang out and work on campus. He had to escalate to alleged murder to be held and/or risk deportation. Good policies. Good work.”
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Ibarra, 26, is being held on charges that include malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping and hindering a 911 call, per <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jose-ibarra-suspect-murder-georgia-nursing-student-illegal-entry-venezuela/">CBS News</a>. He was previously arrested for entering the country illegally in 2022. Ibarra was also charged with &#8220;acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17&#8221; and has a motor vehicle license violation, according to the ICE statement.

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The parents of a nine-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan have sued the leftist sports blog Deadspin over an article that accused the boy of wearing blackface and hating Native Americans for wearing a headdress—despite the boy being Native American and wearing black and red to support his team.
After a TV broadcast of a Chiefs game showed the boy wearing his face painted half in red and half in black, Deadspin and its senior writer Carron Phillips used a screenshot that isolated a frame where only the black was visible in order to “maliciously and wantonly attack a nine-year-old boy and his parents for Phillips’ own race-drenched political agenda,” the defamation lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Delaware state court, said.
The article was titled “The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress,” and claimed that the child had  “found a way to hate Black people and the Native Americans at the same time.”
The lawsuit, which refers to the child only by his initials, said:
<blockquote>The problem with Phillips’ Article: literally none of it was true. H.A. did not wear blackface… He is a child, and until Deadspin and Phillips’ malicious accusation, it never occurred to nine-year-old H.A. that a person could hate another for the color of their skin. The truth is that H.A.’s face was painted in Chiefs’ team colors, black and red, split down the middle—just as myriad fans and team regalia have for decades. Nor does H.A. hate Native Americans. He is Native American.</blockquote>
Raul Armenta, the boy&#8217;s father, belongs to the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians and works for the tribe; the boy&#8217;s grandfather serves on the tribe’s board. “H.A. did not wear a costume headdress because he was ‘taught hate at home’” — as Phillips alleged — “he wore it because he loves the Kansas City Chiefs’ football team and because he loves his Native American heritage,” the suit said.
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Why is <a href="https://twitter.com/Deadspin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Deadspin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/carronJphillips?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@carronJphillips</a> trying to ruin this little kid’s life? They’re accusing him of blackface but conveniently left out his full face which was painted for the game <a href="https://t.co/kFfgAL4aDH">https://t.co/kFfgAL4aDH</a> <a href="https://t.co/750u5sfETE">pic.twitter.com/750u5sfETE</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1729298323545235872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The lawsuit said that the damaging allegation against an innocent child was motivated by a political agenda. Phillips used the concocted narrative to claim that “This is what happens when you ban books, stand against Critical Race Theory, and try to erase centuries of hate.” It continued:
<blockquote>Accusing people of engaging in racist acts has long been Phillips’ modus operandi; his career is based on it. His recent articles include: &#8220;Ryan Tannehill’s ‘support’ for young Titans quarterbacks depends on if they’re white&#8221;; &#8220;We know why Simone Biles doesn’t get the same attention as Taylor Swift at NFL games&#8221; (because she is Black), and &#8220;The Chicago Bears haven’t won a playoff game since Lovie Smith. Their next head coach should be Black.&#8221; He has declared to the public that &#8216;America is racist as hell&#8217; and has authored dozens of articles to support this inflammatory narrative. Phillips has also declared that he and other people of color are “tired of going high”—taking the high road—because &#8216;[a]lways having to be the bigger person is not only unfair but extremely exhausting.&#8217; Instead of &#8216;going high,&#8217; Phillips would take out his racist &#8216;exhaustion&#8217; on a child and his family.</blockquote>
It said that after readers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deadspin-writer-torched-for-accusing-child-of-blackface-at-kansas-city-chiefs-game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flooded Phillips and Deadspin with evidence</a> that the boy was not wearing blackface, Phillips called the critics “idiots.”
Deadspin “published a series of further ‘updates’ that not only failed to correct the record, but instead established that Deadspin fully understood the Article’s highly damaging and defamatory nature—while maliciously refusing to back down. And Deadspin’s lawyers threatened the Armenta family with counter-legal action should Raul and Shannon attempt to hold Phillips and Deadspin accountable for their false and defamatory Article,” the suit said.
“Deadspin has gone too far. H.A. should not have to live with his face being plastered on social media alongside false and defamatory accusations of racist conduct. His parents should not be forced to live with the false and defamatory allegation that they are teaching &#8216;hate in the home.&#8217; And Raul and Shannon will not be bullied by Deadspin’s threat of counter-legal action for vindicating their rights—and the rights of their nine-year old son. The Armenta Family brings this lawsuit to set the record straight and to hold Deadspin accountable for willfully spreading incendiary lies about a nine-year-old child who it chose as a vehicle for its race-baiting agenda,” it continued.
The lawsuit does not target Phillips as a defendant but instead names G/O Media, the parent company of Deadspin. G/O Media did not return a request for comment.
The suit features a picture of Taylor Swift wearing black and red to similarly celebrate the Chiefs, and pictures of black cheerleaders from the team embracing the nine-year-old for his superfan costume.
The article claimed that if people “stand against Critical Race Theory, and try to erase centuries of hate. You give future generations the ammunition they need to evolve and recreate racism better than before”—a line the lawsuit said implied that the “innocent costume was even worse” than slavery.
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By December 12, Deadspin had changed its story to focus on faulting the NFL for not banning fans from wearing headdresses at all stadiums, in what the lawsuit called a “dishonest attempt to reframe the gist of the original story” that showed that it knew the blackface allegation was wrong, while still not retracting it.
The suit said the family is “now outcast from their community” and is considering moving, while the boy has lost “the innocence of youth, and the deep, unencumbered love for his favorite football team.” When he applies to college, Google search results will link him to racism, it said.
It said Deadspin acted with “actual malice” because Phillips knew the boy was not wearing blackface and noted that he did not reach out to the family for comment before publishing.  It asks the court to order Deadspin to pay “punitive and/or exemplary damages” to the family.

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The group that runs the prominent fact-checking site PolitiFact is using money from Left-leaning activists to pay journalists “grants” of $10,000 or more to write about “extremism,” “anti-transgender groups,” and the successes of Joe Biden’s budget-busting American Rescue Plan.
The Poynter Institute, which holds itself out as a nonpartisan group of journalism experts, is using money from the Joyce Foundation, the Gill Foundation, and the Catena Foundation to fund classes for journalists across the country guiding them on how to cover topics such as &#8220;climate change&#8221; and &#8220;transgender medical care.&#8221; Some participants will then be paid grants, bankrolled by activist foundations, to write about particular topics for their employers.
Almost all the <a href="https://www.poynter.org/shop/reporting-editing/beat-academy-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beat Academy</a> classes have an apparent political bias, often mirroring the activism of the funders. On February 1, for example, participants in the “Extremist Politics” session will “learn how to background candidates for extremist ties,” including on “school boards.” They will “gain access to extremism resources and researchers.”
Three participants will be awarded “$10,000 reporting grants” to write about “extremism.”
The next session on February 29 trains journalists to write articles criticizing Joe Biden from the left, saying, “Biden promised to make life better in disadvantaged and marginalized communities by targeting them with billions of dollars tied to climate change, affordable housing… and more. Is it working?” The panelists will explain “the forces and factors that eased and impeded the ability of deserving communities to access these funds.”
Two journalists will be paid a total of $20,000 to write articles heralding the successes of Biden’s massive spending package the American Rescue Plan: “Enrollees can apply for one of two $10,000 reporting grants to capture how certain communities have used the funds to good effect.”
One of the foundations behind the journalism-for-hire program, the Joyce Foundation, “invest[s] in evidence-informed public policies and strategies to advance racial equity.” Vice President Kamala Harris <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1322963321994289154" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defines</a> “equity” as the radical idea of forced equal outcomes, where “we all end up in the same place.”
The funds will be used to give journalists a “generous travel grant” and room and board to take 25 journalists on a group trip to the southern border to focus on, “How domestic labor demand and politically-driven immigrant busing expose flaws in the system.”
They will “see how the Texas busing program exposes the weak spots in the legal immigration system” and be steered to write stories saying businesses crave illegal immigrants by teaching them how to “identify the industries and employers who are seeking immigrant workers in your area.”
In April, journalists will be taking a subsidized class on “transgender coverage,” “Mapping out the landscape of anti-transgender groups and their funders.”
“Enrollees can apply for one of three reporting grants of $10,000-$15,000 to explore how the transgender debate has touched lives in their area,” Poynter said.
The program is funded in part by the <a href="https://gillfoundation.org/priorities/equal-treatment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gill Foundation</a>, a gay activist group dedicated to shaping state policies.
In July, a “voting systems” class “expands on our webinars on extremism” to “get the latest on election worker threats” and “zero in on the new rules in your state that might expand or limit the ease of casting a ballot.”
The last session focuses on convincing all local reporters to inject “climate change” into their coverage. “There is no facet of our lives that doesn’t overlap with climate change. People worry about AI run amok; it’s also a major energy hog. The value of your home could take a hit due to updated flooding maps. The fashion industry is responsible for 8-10% of global emissions. General assignment and beat reporters alike: There’s a climate change story waiting for you,” the description says.
The program is designed to cheerlead the effect of government programs, with Poynter advertising it as “the perfect complement to our earlier Beat Academy session on the impact of federal climate and energy programs on disadvantaged communities.”
Only the panelists on “extremist politics” are listed, but they consist almost exclusively of leftist activist reporters.
“Robert Downen is a reporter covering democracy and the threats to it, including extremism, disinformation and conspiracies,” one bio says.
Another panelist, Jennifer Dresden, “is a Policy Strategist at Protect Democracy,” an advocacy group that <a href="https://lawfortruth.org/litigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sues conservative journalists</a>, including Project Veritas, One America News, and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza.
Protect Democracy says that “<a href="https://protectdemocracy.org/work/can-democracy-survive-racism-strategy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">right-wing and far-right violence</a> ranked highest among experts’ concern,” and that it “uses the tools of strategic litigation and public education to counteract those who intentionally or recklessly spread false information that undermines our democracy.” It advocates for “securing accountability for the January 6th Insurrection.”
A third extremism panelist, Christopher Jones, was “a reporter for 100 Days in Appalachia where, as a digital and forensic reporter, he focuses on white supremacists and their disinformation campaigns.” Jones wrote that &#8220;far right extremists have penetrated law enforcement,&#8221; that Ben Shapiro is &#8220;alt-right&#8221; and promotes fascism, and that Antifa should not be compared to right-wing &#8220;extremist&#8221; groups because there was &#8220;no such threat&#8221; of &#8220;violent far-left activists&#8221; and &#8220;no one has ever been charged with or convicted of a terrorist act on behalf of antifa.&#8221;
&#8220;During the 2016 election cycle and the ascension of Donald Trump, public displays of racism and fascist rhetoric that had caused the 1980s antifa movement emerged once again,&#8221; he wrote, while promoting the misinformation that he &#8220;watched as Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer, was beaten to death with flagpoles with American flags affixed to them.&#8221;
Although Poynter was originally founded to support journalists, it has since aligned with the “disinformation” industry that tries to discredit media outlets that report things other than government-approved storylines.
One of the funders of the Beat Academy and grants, the Catena Foundation — tied to Sam R. Walton, the son of Walmart’s founder — bankrolled the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1027224/disinformation-inc-state-department-silent-on-if-it-will-cut-ties-with-conservative-blacklist-group/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Global Disinformation Index</a>, a notorious British project that accepted money from the U.S. government and put mainstream center-right publications like Reason Magazine and the New York Post on a list that was used to try to bankrupt the companies by dissuading advertisers from doing business with them. (The Daily Wire is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-and-the-federalist-sue-biden-state-department-over-censorship-effort" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suing the State Department</a> for allegedly funding tools used for domestic censorship.)
Jon Greenberg, a former PolitiFact writer who leads the Beat Academy, said Poynter is a “nonpartisan organization that trains journalists” and declined to share any Beat Academy classroom materials or lesson plans with The Daily Wire.

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A battle has broken out in Texas between academic historians and hobbyist history buffs — with the hobbyists advocating for exploring history through primary source material, and the &#8220;experts&#8221; opting to push modern far-Left politics.
It came to a head this month after a veteran publisher of Texas history books wrote to a member of the Texas Historical Commission, a government body that runs historical sites, with a list of all the books sold at the gift shop of the Levi Jordan plantation outside of Houston. Of the 23 books sold, few had to do with the plantation, Texas history, or slavery in Texas. Instead, many were modern leftist political screeds or unrelated lamentations about black victimhood in other times and places.
They included books about Malcolm X, an &#8220;Afro-Vegan Cookbook,&#8221; a novel about a black man in Harlem, a book about Chicago&#8217;s black slums, and book by radical black feminist author &#8220;bell hooks&#8221; tackling &#8220;racism among feminists.&#8221; They also included a book from Frantz Fanon, who posits that violence is necessary for &#8220;decolonization,&#8221; about &#8220;revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization.&#8221;
The situation was similar at the nearby Varner-Hogg plantation, where &#8220;White Rage&#8221; and books by Ibram X. Kendi about diversity, equity, and inclusion were being sold.
Michelle Haas, a veteran publisher of Texas history books who chairs a nonprofit called the Texas History Trust, sent this inventory of the books to the Texas Historical Commission. “I attach a list of the books available with the publisher’s description of each,” she wrote. “You may assess for yourselves how relevant they are to the history of Brazoria County.”
&#8220;Why is the State of Texas selling an afro-vegan cookbook at a state historic site? Or fiction about people living in Chicago in the 1890s? What do books written and edited by Ibram X. Kendi have to do with the Varners, Pattons or Hoggs?&#8221; Haas asked in another email, referring to the plantations.
In an internal email, a member of the commission, David Gravelle, agreed that some of the materials &#8220;are not about accurate Texas history, but seem to wander off into present social issues.&#8221; The Commission later pared the inventory at its historic sites — it says for unrelated reasons.
But on December 7, <a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-historical-commission-book-removal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas Monthly</a> magazine posted an article with Haas as its main subject. It caused an uproar by twisting the story from one about a woman advocating for more books about Texas slavery at Texas plantations, to one about a white woman who wanted books about slavery banned.
Texas Monthly, writing based on an interview with Haas and a collection of Gravelle&#8217;s emails, said that Gravelle falsely stated that “there is no question these books are not about Texas history.” The outlet attempted to dunk on the official by saying that a whopping one of the 23 actually was: “That description wasn’t accurate: one of the 23 titles on the list, for example, was &#8216;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Days-Sorrow-Texas-Narratives/dp/1933337478" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Remembering</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Days-Sorrow-Texas-Narratives/dp/1933337478" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Days-Sorrow-Texas-Narratives/dp/1933337478" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Days of Sorrow</a>,&#8217; which features testimony from numerous Texan slaves,” it wrote.
The article’s crux — that Haas and conservatives wanted slavery books banned — rested on the statement that, &#8220;When asked if it was her intention that historical books about slavery be removed from sites, Haas demurred.&#8221;
But that statement was invented out of thin air. The author of the Texas Monthly article, Steven Monacelli, is a <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/socialist-journalist-sued-by-texas-newspaper-for-defamation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported socialist</a> who was fired from another Texas paper after making <a href="https://dallasweekly.com/2021/02/formerly-black-owned-dallas-express-resurrected-as-right-wing-propaganda-site/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">false</a> accusations against conservatives. Haas recorded her interview with Haas and shared it with The Daily Wire, and the audio shows that he never asked her if she wanted to remove books about slavery — likely because it was obvious from the conversation that she did not. Haas&#8217; entire point, after all, was that books like Ibram X. Kendi&#8217;s are not about slavery.
Monacelli had actually asked her: “Is it possible that the response to your raising these concerns could have unintended effects?” Haas said it was possible, and suggested that as a way to avoid the risk, if they removed a book like &#8220;Roots,&#8221; they should replace it with a book like one about Britt Johnson, a former Texas slave.
The journalist then asked if there were “books that were included on that list that you found to be good representations of the sorts of literature that [Texas Historical Commission] should carry.” Her number-one example was &#8220;Remembering the Days of Sorrow.&#8221; “That absolutely should be there,” Haas told Monacelli.
“Okay. Because I wanted to make sure I wasn&#8217;t getting the wrong impression regarding this list,” he replied. His article, however, did give his readers the wrong impression.
After Haas confronted Texas Monthly editor Dan Goodgame with the audio, the publication made <a href="https://www.diffchecker.com/PyIpgiHR/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">numerous changes</a>, including removing the sentence alleging that Haas refused to say if she wanted to ban slavery books. But the correction appended to the article concealed the actual changes, instead making it seem like a pedantic issue. The correction itself introduced an equally inflammatory charge against Haas that reinforced the article’s central false narrative. The correction itself, which remains at the bottom of the published piece and can be read in full below, states that “Haas emailed a list of books that she objected to.”
<blockquote>“Correction, December 12, 2023: A prior version of this story reported Michelle Haas emailed a list of books that she objected to that were available for purchase at the Levi Jordan historical plantation to Texas Historical Commission Chairman John Nau III. She addressed the email to him and other commissioners, but did not include him as a direct recipient.”</blockquote>
Throughout the interview, as in her email to officials, Haas described how her list was simply a list of all books available for sale, and that she did not object to all of the books. “Here&#8217;s a complete list of the books that are for sale at these particular sites&#8230; here&#8217;s the list of everything that&#8217;s for sale, make of it. Use your judgment to decide if these titles are relevant to Texas history,&#8221; she told Monacelli.
In fact, Haas warned Texas Monthly in advance about getting that fact wrong. “It’s certainly not how certain professors want to portray me as someone who just doesn&#8217;t &#8230; want any bad stuff there. No, I do want bad stuff there,” she said.
Texas Monthly did not return a request for comment, and did not provide The Daily Wire with the public records underlying the story, which Monacelli initially concealed from Haas in their interview before alluding to a list he had received that he wasn’t sure how to interpret. He also said some books the Texas Historical Commission apparently removed were not on Haas’ list, which tended to back up the Commission’s assertion that the books were removed as part of a general inventory reduction. The Texas Historical Commission did not return a request for comment.
Texas Monthly’s article was picked up by other outlets who distorted it even further, leading to a firestorm of threats against Haas.
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&#8220;Those books include: ‘Roots,’ by Alex Haley; ‘Invisible Man,’ by Ralph Ellison; ‘White Rage,’ by Carol Anderson; and ‘Stamped from the Beginning,’ by Ibram X. Kendi. See a pattern?” <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/8/2210546/-Texas-Historical-Commission-removes-dozens-of-books-on-slavery-from-plantation-gift-shops" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Kos</a> wrote. “It seems that ‘amateur historian’ and graphic designer Michelle Haas is the source of the movement to remove mentions of historical slavery at Texas’s historic sites,&#8221; it added — a non-sequitur since only one of those books, Roots, is about slavery, and none are about Texas slavery.
Falsehoods poured in from otherworldly places, with the Star Trek actor-turned-activist George Takei morphing it to the claim that books &#8220;written by slaves&#8221; were removed &#8220;after white woman complains.&#8221;
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Texas Commission Removes Books From Plantation Written By Slaves After White Woman Complains <a href="https://t.co/s7U0SJtBVQ">https://t.co/s7U0SJtBVQ</a>
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Books like Ibram Kendi&#8217;s are not written by slaves, and the audio showed that Haas explicitly advocated for adding a book about a slave, Britt Johnson, and for keeping one based on interviews with former slaves, &#8220;Remembering the Days of Sorrow.&#8221;
Texas State Historical Association
The smear on Haas appeared to be retribution from a larger battle between citizen historians dedicated to researching their state, and academics who are more likely to use history as a vehicle for contemporary leftist politics, and to jealously guard the domain.
The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), which has been in existence since 1897, is designed to be split between academic historians and laypeople. But in recent years, the board was packed with academics.
Its chief historian, Walter Buenger, used the group to promote racial conspiracy theories,<a href="https://thetexan.news/issues/social-issues-life-family/prominent-texas-historian-says-alamo-represents-what-it-meant-to-be-white/article_56c09758-8fa4-561f-b0ee-2a360db90bd2.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> claiming in 2021</a> that, “The Alamo became this symbol of what it meant to be white&#8230;. It is again tapping into a defense of white privilege.”
TSHA is a private group, but likely the most important history group in Texas, according to Haas.
“Since they need their articles peer reviewed and published, the academics need to control who the peers are doing the review. TSHA has the most important scholarly history journal in the state. They need it, but require full ideological capture and can&#8217;t tolerate differing points of view,” Haas told The Daily Wire.
A businessman, J.P. Bryan, stepped in as executive director to bail out the TSHA after declining membership, perhaps due to the fact that most Texas history buffs aren’t keen on constant denigration of Texas. “We are disenfranchising our non-academic members, who make up 90% of our membership, because they’re not properly represented on the board,” Bryan once <a href="https://thecannononline.com/amateur-historians-turn-the-tide-against-woke-academics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. But Nancy Baker Jones, the association president and an academic, appeared to want to use Bryan for his financial expertise, then cast him aside.
In March, TSHA attempted to install yet another academic, and became outraged when Bryan suggested that to comply with their bylaws, they should install a layman, the first black chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, instead. Professor Jeffrey Littlejohn, the co-chair of Sam Houston State University&#8217;s diversity committee, stood up and shouted his displeasure at the prospect of a black conservative history buff instead of a leftist academic, Haas <a href="https://www.texashistorytrust.org/texas-history-news-and-opinion/tsha-illegal-board">wrote</a>.
In May, Judge Kerry Neves <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6174b6bf19cf4223cc28a1d8/t/64877e52d145f22a1f39bcf5/1686601298461/23-CV-0679+-+Order+Granting+Temporary+Injunction.pdfhttps://budgetbook.heritage.org/administration-of-justice/reduce-funding-five-programs-in-department-justice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> the academic packing, writing, “The Bylaws require that the membership of the Board of Directors be balanced substantially between academic and non-academic members. The present Board is not substantially balanced because the makeup is presently 12 academic members compared to 8 non-academic members.”
The two professors behind pushing the media smear of Haas were angry at her for her role in stopping the Texas-history coup by academics. On Facebook, a former junior college professor named Michael Phillips indicated that he and another academic historian, Ben Johnson, were behind the Texas Monthly article, and that, “People who think you can work with Haas and company regarding the TSHA are delusional.”
Phillips was the only academic quoted by Texas Monthly&#8217;s Monacelli, who last year wrote a lengthy article in <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/texas-education-maga-trump-book-bans-1310603/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rolling Stone</a> about how Phillips was let go by a junior college and was suing it alleging that it was in retaliation for pushing leftist politics. On Instagram, the socialist journalist labeled Phillips as &#8220;legendary.&#8221;
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Though Haas spent a career in Texas book publishing, the outlet called her a mere &#8220;graphic designer,&#8221; implying that because she did not have a Ph.D. in history, she could not ascertain what books were related to a Texas plantation and what weren&#8217;t. That characterization was removed by Texas Monthly after she confronted the editor with the audio.
Haas said that degree-based attack was the modus operandi of leftist academics who chafed because she knew enough about history to offer critiques when they relied on their credentials to push biased information. For example, she said, when Johnson alleged that low voter turnout in 1918 was because of racist voter suppression, she reminded him that the Spanish flu “shut everything down a week before the primaries” that year. “If you&#8217;re such a professional, why do you omit that? And instead of answering, the answer is always: &#8216;Well, you&#8217;re just a white supremacist.&#8217;”
In August, the lawsuit was settled and Baker Jones, the association president, and another academic agreed to <a href="https://www.texashistorytrust.org/texas-history-news-and-opinion/tsha-settlement-battleship-texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resign</a>. The <a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com/in-galveston-a-win-for-history-and-against-wokeness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas Public Policy Foundation</a> called the outcome “a win for history — and against wokeness.”
Since then, leftist academics have been in a tailspin at the idea of opposing views, Haas said. “The historians started resigning because they didn’t know what to do. For the past decades or so they’ve just appointed their grievance studies people to the committees and enveloped the whole organization,” she said.
Haas said that history is the domain of all Americans and that activist academics have squandered their credibility by subjugating facts to ideology. She said primary source documents have more to teach people about slavery than contemporary ideologues like Kendi do, saying “we have their words … that’s moving stuff.”
Her <a href="https://www.texashistorytrust.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas History Trust</a> has “digitized about 30,000 pages of primary source material so that the public, teachers and scholars can go direct to the source on their phone, for free.&#8221;
&#8220;I put a $25,000 research library in people&#8217;s pockets,” she said. “When I announced the digitization project, the activist historian crew objected. ‘You need an archivist with a Ph.D. to do that!’ No, I really don&#8217;t.”

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> apparently believes that he would be polling better with the American people if media outlets were reporting on the economy &#8220;the right way.&#8221;
The president <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-scolds-media-negative-coverage-economy-start-reporting-right-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke briefly</a> with reporters on Saturday — just before he departed the White House to spend Christmas at Camp David — and he made it clear the he blamed the media for his floundering poll numbers, particularly with regard to his economic policies.
When one reporter asked Biden about his &#8220;outlook&#8221; on the economy going into 2024 and his re-election campaign, Biden replied, &#8220;All good. Take a look &#8230; Start reporting it the right way.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s comments came in the wake of yet another poll indicating that he is struggling to get above water even with his own party.
&#8220;Talk about shooting the messenger,&#8221; Fox Business host David Asman posted on X, adding, &#8220;61% of Democrats joining the 93% of Republicans and 85% of independents who say the economy is in bad condition &#8230; and Biden&#8217;s blaming the media.&#8221;
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Talk about shooting the messenger…61% of Democrats joining the 93% of Republicans and 85% of independents who say the economy is in bad condition…and Biden’s blaming the media. <a href="https://t.co/H9nv0sVhN4">https://t.co/H9nv0sVhN4</a>
&mdash; David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidAsmanfox/status/1739429371339841803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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According to the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-bidens-economic-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News poll</a> Asman mentioned, only 14% of Americans believe that they have been helped by President Biden&#8217;s economic policies — and almost half (46%) say that &#8220;Bidenomics&#8221; have resulted in them personally taking a financial hit. Overall, 78% said that the economy was in bad shape.
In addition, 68% said that they were not satisfied with the direction the country was going — a 15-point increase from 53% just after Biden took office in 2021. The jump was much higher among Democrats — from 20% in 2021 to 47% in this latest poll.
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The poll also indicated that Americans are worried things could get worse before they get better, economically speaking — just 22% said that they believed the economy would improve in the next year, while twice as many respondents (44%) said they expected to see things get worse in 2024.
As the 2024 presidential campaigns ramp up, the economy ranks highest among voters&#8217; concerns — followed by illegal immigration.

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