Liberal Corporate Media Ignores Government Wrongdoing When Liberals Are to Blame
After Southwest’s mass flight cancellations, liberal media refused to report on transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg’s failure to regulate the airlines — because media outlets now avoid journalism that could offend their audiences’ partisan loyalties.
Pete Buttigieg, US transportation secretary, speaks during a news conference at the Memphis International Airport in Memphis, Tennessee, on November 29, 2022. (Lucy Garrett / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Before liberals knew him as the butt of a Hamilton joke, John Adams once said: “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
But as the Great Airline Meltdown of 2022 illustrated last week, today’s media now routinely does that altering — by promoting or suppressing facts based on which party and which infantilized audience they serve. That is a problem not just for air travelers but also for our entire democracy.
To review: as up to one million travelers were stranded by Southwest Airlines over the holiday season, we uncovered documents (here, here, here and here) showing that Democratic state officials and congressional lawmakers had repeatedly begged transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg to toughen rules to deter airlines from mistreating their customers.
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