Media desk: Principle-Free Journalism

“In American journalism, there are supposed to be some clear, nonnegotiable third-rails,” Victor Davis Hanson notes at American Greatness: “zero tolerance” for racist language, no “contextualizing” sexual harassment, call out any “hint of presidential debility,” “lying” is “intolerable.” Yet while arguably “no other president in modern memory has trespassed more egregiously on these no-go areas than Joe Biden, he has received no criticism for his transgressions.” Why? “The media was always left-leaning” and became openly so after President Donald Trump’s election in 2016, but also blame “the rise of Silicon Valley and related left-wing billionaires, enriched from monopolies of social media.” Yes, Democrats have now “won the long march through journalism” — but at the cost of “every principle of journalistic integrity liberals ever claimed to champion.”