On Friday morning in his Substack, our friend Erick Erickson wrote that the national media’s Trump-focused and Democratic-defensive coverage of the California wildfires has led him to believe “[i]t’s time to let the press hit rock bottom” and even had him “starting to wish ill on the American press” even though “[t]he country needs it” and the powerful deserve to be held to account.
In “The Press Circles the Wagons Around Progressives,” Erickson correctly noted he arrived at this view despite having “long defended the press corps” and that it’s his inner “sinner” talking.
“But it’s like watching an addict…who refuses to help himself and you’ve finally decided until he hits rock bottom, he won’t get help…I don’t think the press wants to help itself. I think the political press, in particular, needs to go on and overdose,” he added.
Erickson said there have been “things that are not true or are blown out of proportion” about the wildfire coverage, but plenty of facts remain and “[t]he American press corps has served as concubines for Gavin Newsom” by “deflect[ing] and dodg[ing] holding progressives accountable for much of anything.”
He explained some of the facts that do remain, such as the reality that the wildfires that have only been exacerbated by policies such as no “new reservoir since 1979, despite voters demanding new ones in 2014” and there being “a firefighter shortage because, in part, the county fired firefighters who would not get the COVID-19 vaccine and have been slow to hire because of DEI issues.” […]
— Read More: www.newsbusters.org
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