Just over three weeks before Election Day 2016, Chris Cillizza, now with CNN, infamously tweeted, “Let me say for the billionth time: Reporters don’t root for a side. Period.”
More Evidence Emerges That the Media Is on Team Biden
Despite claiming to be impartial, numerous incidents make it clear that mainstream media is firmly in support of President Joe Biden. Pictured: Biden speaks to reporters as he departs for Wilmington, Delaware, from the South Lawn of the White House on Feb. 27. (Photo: by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)
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Tim Murtaugh is a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation and contributor to The Daily Signal. He is the former communications director of President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign.
Just over three weeks before Election Day 2016, Chris Cillizza, now with CNN, infamously tweeted, “Let me say for the billionth time: Reporters don’t root for a side. Period.”
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I collect Soviet newspapers. Years ago, I used to travel to Moscow’s Izmailovsky flea market every few weeks, hooking up with a dealer who crisscrossed the country digging up front pages from the Cold War era. I have
Izvestia’s celebration of Gagarin’s flight, a
Pravda account of a 1938 show trial, even an ancient copy of
Ogonyek with Trotsky on the cover that someone must have taken a risk to keep.
These relics, with dramatic block fonts and red highlights, are cool pieces of history. Not so cool: the writing! Soviet newspapers were wrought with such anvil shamelessness that it’s difficult to imagine anyone ever read them without laughing. A good Soviet could write almost any