The media is very cynical they know that Biden and Harris have a few skeletons and probably know what they are. However they hate Trump so much they are willing to turn a blind eye.

Trump baiting will continue for now but eventually the media will get bored and Trump will disapear into well deserved political obscurity.

After that the media will suddenly discover all the dirt about Biden / Harris.

This reminds me of Robert Maxwell and the faux outrage after his death when the media suddenly discovered the fat git was a crook. Private Eye openly called him that every week for at least 10 years before his death.

When the editor of the Eye was asked where do you get your stories he said from main stream journalists whose newspapers are too scared to print them.

Sometimes the media likes to hang onto a story for maximum impact. I don't doubt that when the dirt appears about Biden all they will do is print the story that has been gathering dust in the office.

I worked with a guy whose best mate was a fleet street journalist he was always telling us that the paper had a story about a celebrity which they had been hanging onto for months, sure enough it would then be released for maximum impact.

He once told me they had a story about a gay PL footballer they were desperate to release it but as the chap was in a settled relationship with his boyfriend they couldn't justify it. I don't think that one ever came out.

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One more point

Me neither, it's been abused by past Presidents also and no doubt will be again in future.

I did find the contract of optionally giving the thumbs up to executions, which commuting decades long sentences of others to be absurd. Clearly the crimes were not comparable in nature but as a principle, or rather lack of, it's a strange state of affairs.

Let’s all just ignore the fact that stories are cherry picked for a reason. Every single day you see it in the media. The journalist may well be presenting an honest appraisal, however it is the honest appraisal of a story that promotes the agenda that has been selected to be pushed.

But I'm a moderate Wisbech. My opinions reflect a large proportion of the British population.
The mentality of the mainstream media is moving so rapidly toward 1984 la la land that average opinion now appears extreme to the increasingly blinkered eyes of the easily manipulated.

That includes you by the way.

It"s just a play on thatch banning free speech back in the day hrolf, right wing censorship- i think you already knew that thou, unless the medication has cost you your memory, or you have the blinkers on, moderate? Do me a favour!

How can you even prove that? Also I'm not sure you'd be defined as a moderate in the modern age. And yes, interpretation of these things can and do change – a moderate in 1980 is not the same as a moderate now.

I've always found it interesting that those further 'right' whine about the 'MSM'

Ultimately if there were enough of you as you say, then the 'MSM' wouldn't exist as a centre left majority, we'd have a more right wing government and there would probably be some sort of Gab/Dissenter state TV station that would be the most popular in the UK. In other words, supply and demand.

I really feel that sometimes self-styled 'conservatives' over estimate the popularity of their positions. By the way this also applies to those on the far end of the left. Same deal.

I see groups that cling on to 'old school' conservatism as dwindling, not increasing. And that's mainly due to age. I haven't looked into it, but out of all the sub 30s in this country (Millenials, Gen Z) how many do you really think align with 70s era conservatism? I'd be amazed if it's any higher than 5%.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.