The Biden Presidency 2021

Quote: missedhervee

The same applies to retrumplicans, EB.

Quote: rxwine

The media just exposed Trump for what he was instead of what he thought he was.

Quote: RonC

They are starting to understand what Biden is and how bad of a President he is so far. Not completely, but a major part of the media that led the cheers for Biden and now is facing the reality that he is not a very good President. Funny how so many hold him to a standard that they themselves said is very low--they told us in the media, and here, how bad Trump was...but suddenly Biden is a genius if he beats the Trump standard in their minds.

How about comparing him to what they consider an average President?

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Before the rise of professional journalism in the early 20th century and the conception of media ethics, newspapers reflected the opinions of the publisher. Frequently, an area would be served by competing newspapers taking differing and often radical views by modern standards.[2] In colonial Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was an early and forceful advocate for presenting all sides of an issue, writing, for instance, in his "An Apology For Printers" that "... when truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."[3]

In 1798, the Federalist Party in control of Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts designed to weaken the opposition press. It prohibited the publication of "false, scandalous, or malicious writing" against the government and made it a crime to voice any public opposition to any law or presidential act. This part of the law act was in effect until 1801.[4]

President Thomas Jefferson, 1801–1809, was the target of many venomous attacks. He advised editors to divide their newspapers into four sections labeled "truth," "probabilities," "possibilities," and "lies," and observed that the first section would be the smallest and the last the largest. In retirement he grumbled, "Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."[5]

In 1861, Federal officials identified newspapers that supported the Confederate cause and ordered many of them closed.[6]

In the 19th century, the accessibility of cheap newspapers allowed the market to expand exponentially.[7] Cities typically had multiple competing newspapers supporting various political factions in each party. To some extent this was mitigated by a separation between news and editorial. News reporting was expected to be relatively neutral or at least factual, whereas editorial sections openly relayed the opinion of the publisher. Editorials often were accompanied by editorial cartoons, which lampooned the publisher's opponents.[8]

Small ethnic newspapers serviced people of various ethnicities, such as Germans, Dutch, Scandinavians, Poles, and Italians. Large cities had numerous foreign-language newspapers, magazines and publishers. They typically were boosters who supported their group's positions on public issues. They disappeared as their readership increasingly became assimilated. In the 20th century, newspapers in various Asian languages, and also in Spanish and Arabic, appeared and are still published, read by newer immigrants.[9]

Starting in the 1890s, a few very high-profile metropolitan newspapers engaged in yellow journalism to increase sales. They emphasized sports, sex, scandal, and sensationalism. The leaders of this style of journalism in New York City were William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.[10] Hearst falsified or exaggerated sensational stories about atrocities in Cuba and the sinking of the USS Maine to boost circulation. Hearst falsely claimed that he had started the war, but in fact the nation's decision makers paid little attention to his shrill demands—President McKinley, for example, did not read the yellow journals.[11]

The Progressive Era, from the 1890s to the 1920s, was reform-oriented. From 1905 to 1915, the muckraker style exposed malefaction in city government and industry. It tended "to exaggerate, misinterpret, and oversimplify events," and got complaints from President Theodore Roosevelt.[12]

The Dearborn Independent, a weekly magazine owned by Henry Ford and distributed free through Ford dealerships, published conspiracy theories about international Jewry in the 1920s. A favorite trope of the anti-Semitism that raged in the 1930s was the allegation that Jews controlled Hollywood and the media.

Quote: JCW09

Real Clear Politics now has The House Plant -14.9% on the Economy & -34.4% on Direction of the Country.
He better turn it around, because once the Russia Russia Russia Lie died down, Trump managed a 42%+ approval rating.
Biden is at 42%+ right now.
Wonder what happens first, Biden drops to 38% Trump levels or Trump passes Biden on his upswing in approval in year 2?

Quote: ams288

Weren’t you just predicting Biden’s approval number would be in the 20s a couple weeks ago?

Guess he’s doing better now.

Quote: ams288

Weren’t you just predicting Biden’s approval number would be in the 20s a couple weeks ago?

Quote: SOOPOO

. Biden still in the 30’s. Harris at all time low for any VP at 28%. Lower than Dick Cheney’s lowest rating! Maybe EB is right on Harris. I truly thought she would be the nominee for 2024 and next President. Her abysmal ratings are good news for the country.