I cannot think of a time since 9/11 that American newscasts have been so myopically focused on one story. Granted, the Hamas attack on Israel is a BIG story with ramifications in all directions. But the virtual 24/7 coverage is blocking out most other news – even big news.
The worst part is that there is little change in the facts from minute to minute. The talking heads of telly-world are merely repeating … repeating … repeating. Occasionally, there is something new to report – but not often.
There is also the same politicization by the newsies. Even as they say that the war in Israel should not be politicized, they (mostly the leftwing folks) grossly politicize it along the lines of their partisan narratives. The only apparent reason they cover the House Speaker election at all is to demonize Republicans.
We see the same stories … the same images … the same words … from different people. Normally schedule programs on cable news are pre-empted for more … nothing new news.
Nothing about the crime problem in our major cities. It has not abated – just not reported. Nothing about the thousands of people – including a few criminals, drug dealers and terrorists – that are crossing the America’s southern border. Nothing about inflation.
Most notably … there is nothing being reported about the war in Ukraine. Is that still going on? And that brings up another subject. If I were President Zelenskyy, I would be very upset and worried.
Not only is nothing being reported of the Russian invasions of Ukraine but compare the past coverage of that war with what we see today. Contrast the official American response to the attack on Israel and the response to the attack on Ukraine – two American allies attacked by brutal and merciless – and evil — forces.
President Biden did not call for all out victory over Putin. He did not – in the strongest terms – call Putin evil. The media was not flooded with heartbreaking stories of dead Ukrainian men, women and children. There were no serial interviews with fearful and tearful survivors of Russian war crimes. There were no strong statements that America had the back of Ukraine – and an immediate flow of money and every type of military equipment and weapons in support of the Ukraine defense. There were no 24/7 videos of the atrocities committed by the barbaric Russian military. There was no sending American war ships into the Black Sea.
What Ukraine got from the Biden Administration was a weak commitment carried out with at too little/too late support policy. Biden did not even deliver all the sanctions he promised at the onset of the war. Biden is clearly standing behind Israel – and waaaay behind Ukraine.
I wonder who is winning the War in Ukraine? From the White House and the media, it is … crickets.
So, there ‘tis.