ral Media Decry Political Polarization //
Two years of journalism have been centered on the idea that the Republican Party was a group of Jim Crow segregationists and violent election-denying rioters trying to suppress the black vote. Journalists find it surprising that the country is so polarized.
Hallie Jackson, NBC reporter, announced that 80% of Americans believe the other party is going to destroy America. Our pollsters believe that many people are being motivated to vote this year out anger or fear.
To be more precise, NBC asked its voters whether they believed that the Republican Party agendas “pose a danger that, if stopped, will destroy America the way we know it.” Eighty one percent of Democrats chose the disaster-movie scenario, while 79% of Republicans chose it.
Dante Chinni, an NBC analyst, concluded that “when you view elections in these terms, the vitriol will be intense.” It can be difficult to shake hands at the conclusion and promise to do better next year, even if your voters believe there isn’t one.
Bizarrely Jackson suggested that Sunday’s “solution” to polarization could be groups led Adam Kinzinger or Liz Cheney. This is as if the House Jan. 6, “Very Select Committee” hadn’t been the epicenter for the media’s polarizing narrative regarding the Republicans killing democracy.
Jackson questioned Willie Geist loudly: “Are these groups gonna get any traction? Willie?” They don’t know what the future holds. The media spent two years trying to give them traction.
The liberal media should feel free to polarize the public and tell them constantly–alongside Cheney and Kinzinger–that the Republican Party should be stripped down to the studs over Jan. 6. They are allowed to be offensive cartoonists of GOP under the First Amendment. They shouldn’t pretend that their full-throated advocacy doesn’t polarize or aren’t nonpartisan when it sounds to many voters as a Democratic National Committee strategy memo.
The entire House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Jan. 6 panel construction was partisan-polarizing. The Republican minority was not allowed the right to choose its own members and no one was allowed to speak against the dominant narrative in the nationally televised hearings.
This committee was covered by the media in a similar echo chamber. Sunday show anchors invited committee members to highlight their anti-Republican talking points and rarely challenged them.
If the media felt that they could or should play a role “de-polarizing” America or trying to forge calmer consensus, they should start by creating their own product. They could push all politicians to work together and find common ground.
Their Trump-era business model was designed for a partisan audience and echos inside a self-righteous bubble. Your badly disguised Democratic newspaper’s motto “Democracy Dies In Darkness” doesn’t help to create a bipartisan governing environment. You are running a permanent political campaign.
The liberal media has the freedom to respond to the midterm election by continuing to follow their current course. They can continue fighting the partisan war and rely on fear, panic, and go on. They should also know that the glum warning about American polarization is absurd. They should also know that they will not be mistakenly viewed as impartial moderators or referees in a two-party system in the years ahead.
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