I saw a tweet where someone asked why the administration continues to tell outrageous lies. E.g., that the border is secure. <\/p>\n
A simplistic answer is that the media won’t call them on their lies, but that’s not true. Conservative media will point out the lies. <\/p>\n
So why do they do it? Because their base — the people they need on their side to stay in power — don’t listen to or believe conservative media. <\/p>\n
Fox News can call out Joe Biden’s lies all day long and it doesn’t matter to the Biden administration, because their people don’t listen to Fox News. <\/p>\n
This has been going on for decades, and it gets worse every cycle. Until the media starts to value truth over consolidating their hold on their base, the government will continue to lie to us, trusting that the captive media will do their bidding. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I saw a tweet where someone asked why the administration continues to tell outrageous lies. E.g., that the border is secure. A simplistic answer is that the media won’t call them on their lies, but that’s not true. Conservative media will point out the lies. So why do they do it? Because their base — … Continue reading “Outrageous lies are a consequence of our partisan media”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}