President Joe Biden gave some strong words on the importance of truthful media but also gave some strong warnings about the threats of a dishonest press watch this as I said last year at this dinner poison is running through our democracy and parts of the extreme press truth buried by lies
And lies living honest truth lies toll for profit and Power why is the conspiracy in Malice repeated over and over again designed to generate a cycle of anger hate and even violence but I’ve also made it clear as I’ve seen throughout my life it’s within our power
Each and every one of us to preserve our democracy we can we must we will so is there a poison running through our democracy as Biden calls it is it also running through the extreme press and what is the extreme press who makes that definition well regardless Biden seems
To think so and to defend the American system or the republic or our democracy as he says is something going to need to be done to stop this alleged threat now of course Biden says something important as well he said that truth is being buried by lies and lies are living on as
Truth the problem from political level though is who decides what truth is and what happens to the threat to democracy who go against the established truth now the sad reality not just for America but for the world in the information age is that much of what’s often shown in both sides
Of the political establishment are half-truths and the danger we’re now facing as a society is that when the other half is only shown it’s often painted as dangerous conspiracy for the other side or as a threat to the system take for example the accusation that former president Donald Trump allegedly
Took home classified documents now do you remember how that turned out comedian Roy Wood Jr mentioned this during the correspondence dinner as well let me show you I don’t know about y’all but for me um the easiest Scandal to follow was the Trump document Scandal that was the one
That was easy to follow it was simple there’s some stuff that’s supposed to be in the White House that ain’t in the media y’all did y’all’s job y’all jumped on that story as soon as the Trump document story broke everybody was down in Mar-A-Lago we were reporting
Live from the documents and we’re gonna find them and then we found out Joe Biden had documents too and it was like oh it’s not a big deal [Laughter] look the Chinese spa balloon would you look at that the point he raised was important yes Trump had classified documents at his
Home it’s still being determined whether they were there illegally or not these are facts much of this much of what the media pushed on this Scandal they said was that they said it was a threat of the century many of them yeah when it was found that Joe Biden
Also took home classified documents including when he was a Senator the story basically disappeared from the airwaves so was it really such a big Scandal and if so why did the partisan news outlets seem to lose interest as soon as the political value disappeared this goes back to that problem of
Half-truths the half-truth served a political purpose but the full truth did not it’s issues like this that make people question whether today’s news media is actually interested in reporting the full truth or whether it’s just something serving a political role as we saw with that and then there’s the bigger question of
Whether the media is being manipulated by politics
