Everyone knew instinctively that the Biden White House would get enormous cooperation and positive media coverage from the “news” media, given that it follows the alleged democracy-darkening Donald Trump days. But Team Biden’s control of the narrative can look more like a stranglehold.
On May 10, Politico revealed that “If you’ve read a quote from an administration official in a newspaper or a wire story recently, there’s a good chance that the White House communications team had an opportunity to edit it first.”
The Biden White House frequently demands that interviews with administration officials be conducted on the grounds of “background with quote approval,” according to five White House reporters who aren’t with Politico. This means that reporters submit their quotations of administration officials and the White House approves them. “The practice allows the White House an extra measure of control as it tries to craft press coverage,” Politico says.
“Craft” is a more delicate word for “manipulate.”
This isn’t entirely new. Former President Obama apparently did it, too. Former President Trump tried, but less often. Politico suggests reporters are reluctant to say no to “background with quote approval” because it could put them at a disadvantage with their competitors. Editors who want that “insider” feel in their stories will pressure reporters to follow those grounds. Access is everything.
Resistance is apparently futile.
This underlines something very important for media consumers. Be suspicious of official (and partisan) sources dictating large chunks of stories to reporters. They approve the quotes; they lecture about preferred terminology — an “extra measure of control.”
New York Magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi wrote about how the White House is now policing the language of politics. Phrases such as "border crisis" have been disparaged. Instead, the border is "challenging." Nuzzi argued that "a highly particular and rigid approach to language is a form of governing itself, just as a careless and inflammatory one was under Donald Trump."
White House press secretary Jen Psaki told Nuzzi, "We are just not going to get pulled down in the muck of right-wing-driven arguments about word choice." As usual, liberal reporters are hectored to not sound "right-wing." They are pressured not to use "crisis," and the Associated Press, one of Biden's servile outlets, apparently instructed reporters to "avoid" the word "crisis."
Nuzzi's chat with Psaki came before Psaki was interviewed on David Axelrod's podcast and admitted that the White House staff tells President Biden not to engage with reporters very much. "That is not something we recommend," she said. They prefer canned speeches and carefully curated social media messaging.
They don't want Biden improvising, like the day he spoke to reporters after a round of golf and referred to the border situation as a "crisis."
Naturally, this rigid control of the press is followed by admiration. Axelrod told Nuzzi what the Biden team has accomplished: "They've effectively maximized his earnestness and decency. They've not allowed him to be in situations where he can stray." They've minimized Biden's press conferences, even though those media interrogators tell him how moral and decent he is.
This underlines that some of this control doesn't need to be enforced. As one alleged Biden insider told Nuzzi, "Biden is the most liberal president we've had -- and the public thinks he's a moderate." That ideological distortion comes naturally to liberal reporters.
So forget this notion that the press are misbehaved, ink-stained wretches and rebellious truth-tellers. In Bidenland, there are no "bombshell" revelations; there's only "landmark" legislation to "rebuild and invest in America." The sound bites almost always make Biden look like a statesman who only says the most sensible things in favor of everything that is good. The "message discipline" is palpable, and the morning and evening "newscasts" routinely sound like pleasant emanations of publicity.
Get the proof of the fraud and get Biden out of the White house NOW! We will not have a country we recognize by the end of 4 years of this empty head of Biden. Something has to be done even if it means war but I really don’t want to see war. Something has to be done Biden is making us the laughing stock of the world instead of a leader. I’m in my 80’s but the young deserve better than this.
Agree!
Agree
Most definitely! Why bother haing reporters at all — Psaki an just write all the news stories and distribute to the lying media rats.
Joe, tapped by Obama as an insurance against being murdered, was found to have foot in mouth disease and told to shot up. That order was kept during the election campaigning hide in basement order and continues now because there is a vaccine for the pandemic, but not against his foot in mouth illness Joe has no problem with that as long as his and his family’s monetary interest are kept intact. Understand that he also has a very adaptable moral compass.
Never Joe
Yes, yes, & yes.
And yet even with the obvious control of everything , the press still trys to paint Slo-Joe as the greatest thing since sliced bread . Go figure ?
Even the news can’t make up lies big enough to show that Biden isn’t a complete failure.
Millions of us, who are hard working, abided by constitutional laws and God given rights knows and see the horrific effect of this administration policies!.its.aim to destroy all of those and destroy the economy, open borders , reckless spending, is to weaken us, control.of power, destroy this beloved country, while supporting the illegals immigrants with our taxpayers money!! Its.obvious. to change this country into a socialist!! God helps us 🇺🇸 🙏!
A few months after ASSHOLE DEMENTIA Biden halted all construction of the wall across America’s southern border — the one Donald Trump campaigned on and the one that arguably kept the border crisis in check until Biden entered office — JUST NOW the Biden administration had re-started construction AFTER LETTING A MILLION ILLEGALS ENTER THE USA. 💩👹 🤬😠🤬⚰😠🤬👿
DEMENTIA ASSHOLE TREASONOUS Joe Biden asked the worthless demon bitch NIGGER HALF BREED USELESS ASSHOLE whore TREASONOUS HARRIS to lead the charge to solve the migrant crisis at the Southern border but she DIDN’T do it, BUT NOW SHE HAS TO EAT SHIT!!!!!
THIS USELESS worthless demon bitch NIGGER HALF BREED USELESS ASSHOLE whore IS DONE. She’s not even trying. The shrewd and capable politician she campaigned as has been traded in for a coward or incompetent nincompoop.
WE THE PEOPLE WILL SEE YOU DEMON-CRAPS ON THE BATTLE FIELD AS TRAITORS OF THE USA!!! 💩👹 🤬😠🤬⚰😠🤬👿
VOTER FRAUD AND TREASON HAS BEEN PROVEN BY MIKE YLINDELL, MIKE FLINN, AND A GOVERNMENT CYBER ANALYSIS!! FINDING WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE SUPREME COURT IN 2 MONTHS!!!
INVOLVEMENT ARE NIGGER OBAMA-SHIT HEAD, BOTH CLINTONS, AND THE BIDENS
WHEN FOUND GUILTY, ALL SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY PARTIALLY BURNED ON A THORNY CROSS UPSIDE-DOWN, REVIVED, DRAGGED BEHIND WE THE PEOPLE, AND THEN HUNG!!! BODY IS CREMATED AND HALF THE ASHES ARE FLUSHED DOWN THE NIGGER TOILET AND THE OTHER HALF IS MIXED IN THE CEMENT FOR THE BORDER WALL!!!THAT IS HOW YOU GET RID OF PARASITES!💩👹 🤬😠🤬⚰😠🤬👿
CUNT Kamala Harris & aide confesses that THE LYING NIGGER BITCH POS VP is not ‘doing’ the border BECAUSE OF HER PERIOD!!!
Dominion COMMITTED Voting FRAUD AS official, in hiding, speaks out!!!!
The director of product strategy and security for Dominion Voting Systems—now on paid leave—Coomer was recalling a nationally televised press conference in mid-November when Trump Campaign lawyers Rudolph Giuliani and Sidney Powell denounced him individually, by name, as having helped rig the 2020 presidential election.
ASSHOLE DEMENTIA VOTER FRAUD TREASONOUS Biden AND SON PLUS ALL DEMON-CRAPS SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY PARTIALLY BURNED ON A THORNY CROSS UPSIDE-DOWN, REVIVED, DRAGGED BEHIND WE THE PEOPLE, AND THEN HUNG!!!
BODY IS CREMATED AND HALF THE ASHES ARE FLUSHED DOWN THE NIGGER TOILET AND THE OTHER HALF IS MIXED IN THE CEMENT FOR THE BORDER WALL!!!THAT IS HOW YOU GET RID OF PARASITES!👹 💩🤬😠🤬⚰😠🤬👿
VOTER FRAUD TREASONOUS BIDEN & SON PLUS ALL DEMON-CRAPS SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY PARTIALLY BURNED ON A THORNY CROSS UPSIDE-DOWN, REVIVED, DRAGGED BEHIND WE THE PEOPLE, AND THEN HUNG!!!
BODY IS CREMATED AND HALF THE ASHES ARE FLUSHED DOWN THE NIGGER TOILET AND THE OTHER HALF IS MIXED IN THE CEMENT FOR THE BORDER WALL!!!THAT IS HOW YOU GET RID OF PARASITES!👹 💩🤬😠🤬⚰😠🤬👿
ASSHOLE Democrats bank on EARLY DEMENTIA AND JAIL TIME + HANGING FOR VOTER FRAUD AND TREASON
DEMON-CRAPS ARE THE ENEMY OF THE USA!!!
FUCK YOU ASSHOLES OF THE DEMON-CRAP U.S. Supreme Court WHICH IS A USELESS POS AND THE ENEMY OF WE THE POPLE!! AN EXORCISM NEEDS TO BE INITIATED ON THISE ASSHOLES!!! !!!!!💩🤬😠🤬⚰😠🤬👿
The demon-crap POS TRAITOR OF WE THE PEOPLE U.S. TRAITOROUS Supreme Court on Monday disposed of the last of three cases brought to the justices by former President Donald Trump!! AN EXORCISM NEEDS TO BE INITIATED ON THISE ASSHOLES!!!
WE THE PEOPLE WILL SEE YOU ON THE BATTLE FIELD AS TRAITORS OF THE USA…ASSHOLES!!!!💩🤬😠🤬⚰😠🤬👿
The FRAUD TREASONOUS ASSHOLE Demon-crap-controlled Congress is on the verge of passing its biggest round of corona virus stimulus payments, delivering on a campaign promise by ASSHOLE DEMENTIA Biden. AN EXORCISM NEEDS TO BE INITIATED ON THIS ASSHOLE!!!
WE ARE TRILLIONS OF $$$$ IN DEBT, WHERE IN THE FUCK! IS THIS MONEY COMING FROM?????????
BIDEN IS NOT MY PRESIDENT!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME…YOU FUCKING TREASONOUS ASSHOLE RETARDED POS SENILE BASTARD PLUS ALL DEMON-CRAS!!!!👹 💩🤬😠🤬⚰😠🤬👿
BIDEN AND ALL DEMON-CRAPS PLUS ILLEGALS, AFTER TRIAL AND ALL FOUND GUILTY, JUDGE SENTENCES BNLDM (BLACK NIGGER LIVES DON’T MATTER), CUOMO, PEEELOSI, BIDEN & SON, HARRIS, OBUMMER, BILLARY, BLDM, PEELOOOUZ, DEMENTED SPOOKS, AND DEMON-CRAPS, ARE ALL TREASONOUS CRIMINAL DEMON-CRAPS, VOTER ELECTION DEMON-CRAP COUNTERS, DEMON-CRAP ELECTION OFFICIALS, Bill de Blasio AND BIDEN & SON SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY PARTIALLY BURNED ON A THORNY CROSS UPSIDE-DOWN, REVIVED, DRAGGED BEHIND WE THE PEOPLE, AND THEN HUNG!!! BODY IS CREMATED AND HALF THE ASHES ARE FLUSHED DOWN THE NIGGER TOILET AND THE OTHER HALF IS MIXED IN THE CEMENT FOR THE BORDER WALL!!!THAT IS HOW YOU GET RID OF PARASITES!👹 💩🤬😠🤬⚰😠🤬👿
BIDEN & SON PLUS ALL DEMON-CRAPS SHOULD BE
BIDEN & SON PLUS ALL DEMON-CRAPS SHOULD BE
BIDEN & SON PLUS ALL DEMON-CRAPS SHOULD BE
ALL THESE ASSHOLES BIDEN & SON PLUS ALL DEMON-CRAPS SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY PARTIALLY BURNED ON A THORNY CROSS UPSIDE-DOWN, REVIVED, DRAGGED BEHIND WE THE PEOPLE, AND THEN HUNG!!! BODY IS CREMATED AND HALF THE ASHES ARE FLUSHED DOWN THE NIGGER TOILET AND THE OTHER HALF IS MIXED IN THE CEMENT FOR THE BORDER WALL!!!THAT IS HOW YOU GET RID OF PARASITES!👹 💩🤬😠
Biden vows Russia’s Putin will ‘pay a price’ for
Biden Admin Just Re-Started the Construction of Trump’s Border Wall – Simply Patriot
FRANK HARTLEY
RETIRED PETROLEUM ENGINEER WITH THE LOVE OF MY LIFE, SONY❤️❤️❤️ ✝
“I am blessed. I am thankful everyday. Life is great ” ✝
GO TRUMP
TREASONOUS FRAUD DEMON-CRAPS & POLITICIANS, If stupid could fly, THEY WOULD be a jet!!!!
According to some,…Hillary is toast and Gulliani had a video of the hanging at gitmo is the real reason the fbi raided his home for “electronic devices” but wouldnt take Hunters hard drives!
But, Frank, they’re all in the Swamp with them. There’s no one to help us. Not our FBI, CIA, DOJ, etc. Even the Supreme Court is in on it. Only GOD can help us.
As the kids say, WTF? You got it bass ackwards! The same olygarchs who own the press also own most politicians and are hell bent on owning and enslaving the world. “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but loose his soul?” Two thousand year old warning, but they “flipped off” it’s Author and are finalizing the perversion of all nations. Poor saps, the abyss is a breath away.
I do not listen to any of the statements or speeches , ALL LIES from beginning to end ?.If controlling your speech and banning me yet again on face book for posting the truth??, IF THAT IS NOT COMMUNISM , THEN I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS????. I believe all this is coming to an end soon , before the imposter puke totally destroys our country!!!!
All this is, is manipulation of the first amendment in it’s journey toward socialism.
Lies, lies, and more lies…and then the lice! This is hypocrisy at its worst and at the highest levels. People must learn to do their own investigative work, listen carefully to all sources and then determine the bitter truth…as there is no truth in his biden-harris White House.
It is abundantly clear that the White House is doing everything they can
to control the news. For example: Joe’s infamous Keystone Pipeline
cancellation accomplished nothing as the oil transport was instantly
switched to a railroad owned by Warren Buffet. How much did. Mr.
Buffet pay for that little stunt? With a story that obvious and yet not
one question, even from Fox people, mean our press is mind-numbed,
corrupt or both.
The whole administration is so corrupt and un-American that nothing else needs to be said. Just ignore everything coming out of Washington, turnoff mainstream media completely, vote in upcoming elections (even though the outcome will have already been established), and prepare for the worst. DC is braindead and that epidemic is spreading!
I agree John, and the real ‘enemy within’ that drives the brain dead acolytes of dimocrat intolerance, delusion, hypocrisy, and hate are the so-called ‘educators’, infecting so many schools and campuses with leftist poison.
Biden and Psaki are both consummate liars and full of shit. Not very diplomatic, but accurate.
Nicely crafted piece, but as acknowledged at the start, not exactly ‘news’ to any intelligent individual with a functioning cerebrum, ie not a dimocrat.
Theres always going to be idiots with no common sense to reason for themselves that soak up the cnn’s and msnbc’s like a sponge!
On a side note one day Jesus will separate the sheep from the goats,… so when they call you a sheep.. Its really a compliment they dont even realize!
I believe absolutely nothing coming from that bastard Biden or the despicable media!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!