Perry Bacon Jr. - which is the name of a Washington Post writer, not a sandwich at Arby's - has managed to have the dumbest excuse to date for why Joe Biden's approval numbers are somewhere between bad and bad: the news media's coverage has been "anti-Biden."
The disastrous and fatal withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan contributed to Biden’s low approval rating.
- “Afghanistan was an important turning point in media coverage for two reasons: it provided journalists the big anti-Biden story that they were desperate to find. And it drove down Biden's popularity with the public, giving the media justification for even more coverage that cast the president as struggling."
- Bacon wrote on Monday, presumably with a straight face, that a major factor driving the president's approval ratings to lower than Donald Trump's is that the news media's coverage has been anti-Biden. He actually said that.
- In the first few months of 2021, many in the media focused on narratives that seemed like they could turn into big anti-Biden stories but didn’t pan out, wrote Perry.
- By anti-Biden stories, he meant the few times reporters asked the president why vaccines were so slow to distribute and whether he planned to do anything to stem the tide of obscene numbers of migrants illegally crossing the southern border.
- Afghanistan was an important turning point in media coverage for two reasons, he wrote.
- Even now, media coverage of the Biden administration is relegated to one-minute news briefs about the president and Kamala Harris's latest screw-ups, only between hour-long segments about the Jan.
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