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Discovering the corruption of professional journalism was much of what drove me to begin writing on this platform. While I’ve found many opportunities [ [link removed] ] to drag [ [link removed] ] editors and [ [link removed] ] writers for [ [link removed] ] their various [ [link removed] ] recurring failures [ [link removed] ], few present examples as compelling as the myths embedded in reporting on the election currently underway.
The cults of personality built by journalists have not been limited to career politicians. The billionaires who have purchased mass media institutions only to effectively hamstring them [ [link removed] ] did so not as their primary strategy to secure their political whims, but rather as a supplemental strategy augmenting their primary approach of buying elections outright [ [link removed] ].
Building cults of personality allowing politicians to escape accountability
I’ve specifically criticized [ [link removed] ] journalists for building cults of personality [ [link removed] ] surrounding prominent Democrats. President Bill Clinton may have been the first beneficiary of the pattern, which allowed his skills [ [link removed] ] on a saxophone to obscure his self-serving betrayal [ [link removed] ] of working class Americans and ethical challenges.
Obama continued [ [link removed] ] the pattern, exemplifying the cultural allure [ [link removed] ] of a celebrity president. He played basketball, hosted lavish parties at the White House featuring Hollywood actors alongside recording artists and finance moguls, and appeared as often in pop culture [ [link removed] ] as in Washington.
Who needs pesky accountability agents asking a groundbreaking [ [link removed] ] president about why he chose to murder American citizens with no trial or charge [ [link removed] ] based on nothing more than their speech? (If that sounds outlandish, that’s because it is. The assassination [ [link removed] ] of Anwar al-Alaki and his son [ [link removed] ], who was born in Virginia, was as constitutionally scandalous an event as one could imagine, but drew nary a peep from the legions of journalists focused on the White House.)
President Biden—and Vice President Harris—have been no exceptions to the rule. ...

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