White House Issues Chilling Warning to Media

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The danger of a “state media” looms large as Joe Biden’s handlers issued a free-speech chilling warning to all the major news outlets. The propaganda corps is ordering them to “ramp up their scrutiny” of House Republicans, “for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies.” The spin doctors blatantly start with the assumption that all the hard evidence already uncovered is somehow factually wrong.

Authoritarian media censorship

The way Jonathan Turley expresses it, “I have previously written how the level of advocacy and bias has created a danger of a de facto state media in the United States.” When the constitutional law professor got wind of a new directive from Biden officials, he was quick to type up a column proclaiming “I told you so.

In it, he points out that it really is “possible to have such a system by consent rather than coercion.” Panic stricken Democrats out to do major damage control aren’t looking to build a consensus. They pulled out the heavy censorship equipment.

A letter went out “drafted by the Biden White House Legal Counsel’s Office,” proving who really sets administration policy. The document was an order to all the network media outlets to “ramp up their scrutiny” of House Republicans “for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies.

They don’t provide a shred of evidence to support that the hard evidence already obtained isn’t authentic or accurate. It’s been declared lies. So to the press, lies are now what they are, even if totally true.

The “aggressive” message from Stuart Frank Delery is “curious and concerning” to Turley. Joe’s defenders are “now actively involved in pushing narratives and denying factual allegations linked to the Biden corruption scandal.” We haven’t seen that since Watergate. Even more interesting, Delery didn’t write it.

That could create Nixonian-type allegations of the abuse of office in the use of federal employees to counter impeachment efforts.” What’s even more concerning is who typed up the letter to the media outlets.

No pretense of separation

The media’s marching orders were “drafted by Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House Counsel’s Office.” That’s not good because it means “White House lawyers are now enlisting the media in a counter-media campaign against impeachment.

The letter obviously “removes any pretense of separation between the Biden personal legal team and the White House Counsel’s office.” Sams is noteworthy for his skills “in actively swatting down allegations of corruption.

You’re either with the official narrative or against it, Sams proclaims. His “letter calls for the media to actively support the White House account.” Whether they want to or not.

Covering impeachment as a process story – Republicans say X, but the White House says Y – is a disservice to the American public who relies on the independent press to hold those in power accountable.

Media “should” he orders, refuse “to give equal attention to allegations against the Bidens.” Instead they’re supposed to “educate” the public with “what the truth is.” No matter what the facts and evidence actually say.

Process stories that fail to unpack the illegitimacy of the claims on which House Republicans are basing all their actions only serve to generate confusion, put false premises in people’s feeds, and obscure the truth.” Only Democrats can do that.

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