The story was what shook the race for the presidency and brought us to the point where Donald Trump is facing Kamala Harris. The story revealed a truth that was already known by most intelligent beings: that incumbent president Joe Biden had a severe mental breakdown and could not run the country any longer. But the Democrats and mainstream media denied, buried, and ignored this reality.
The report was written by Olivia Nuzzi for New York Magazine. It is not a place where right-wing journalists are a majority.
Semaphore says that she is now paying for her actions.
Bloomberg has quietly canceled a PR campaign for Olivia Nuzzi’s new show Working Capital in response to an anti-journalist Twitter campaign by Democrats.
The interview show was announced with much fanfare back in July and has been released unceremoniously on Bloomberg’s TV network. It is also available online. Max [Tani] reported (and Nuzzi confirmed) that plans for an increased-profile launch of the Bloomberg Originals wager were abruptly scrapped after a Nuzzi piece about the “conspiracy” of silence around President Joe Biden’s age.
Greta van Susteren is now an anchor at Newsmax TV and she knows how to irritate the leftist press:
If this is true, it goes to show the media truly has gone mad and has NO regard for free speech and 1st Amendment. Remember, @MSNBC fired me (and had to pay me full for 2 yr) because I would not in their words “play ball.”Instead I insisted on being honest . @Olivianuzzi pic.twitter.com/6IAeWIetTv
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) September 2, 2024
Hell has no fury as great as the liberal media that scorned.
Leftists launched a campaign against Nuzzi shortly after the publication of her article, claiming that she had made racist comments on social media. Semaphore points out that these posts were in jest.
A group of Democrats took to Twitter after reading her article and called her a racist. They also demanded that she be fired. Their claims were based on tweets that had been sent during the Obama administration. If you didn’t have a sense of humor or weren’t following US politics at the time and couldn’t understand the context, it could be interpreted as expressing a furious anti-Obama sentiment. They were Twitter jokes. It’s too stupid to go into detail but here is a sample.
Nuzzi criticized Bloomberg’s decision and discussed how media companies are so afraid of PR crises they avoid anything controversial.
“I am accused of being an activist when I write things that anger the right. When I write about the left, it is said that I am a conservative activist. She observed that the mainstream media tends to ignore campaigns of bad faith against journalists led by the left.
This last sentence makes me think that she is saying that the media doesn’t care if someone on the right gets angry, but they will be there to clean up if somebody on the left gets in a huff. She continued:
“I had no illusions that corporate media would tolerate even the slightest hint of a public relations crisis. I wasn’t surprised but I was disappointed.”
Scoop w @maxwelltani: Bloomberg killed the PR rollout of Olivia Nuzzi’s show after random Democrats on X upset about a Biden feature got mad at her about old, out-of-context jokes. Nuzzi’s thoughtful response included:https://t.co/Rg8j0VUivV pic.twitter.com/STswyttNri
— Ben Smith (@semaforben) September 1, 2024
Media bias is a serious issue because it threatens our country. We would not have a Joe Biden presidency without the 90 percent of journalists who cheered him on and lied to the public about his mental decline. Kamala’s campaign would only be polling at the teens if it weren’t for the glowing fangirl coverage she gets from major networks and newspapers in big cities.
Bloomberg has just sent a warning to all journalists: you can only stray away from the story at your peril.