No, Liberal Media Bias Isn't "Reporter Brain" or "Herd Mentality"

Not entirely, anyway

Journalists in 2025 America have a big problem: Nobody trusts them because they keep lying to us “for our own good.”

The two big examples from the past five years are the pandemic and Joe Biden’s dementia. Every day, for years on end, the media was filled with great big lies about things that affected everyone. Our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters in the press think of these as “noble lies.” They convince themselves they need to tell us things they know to be false, because the alternative is that they won’t get the political outcomes they want.

Then Biden imploded — not literally, although that would be fun to watch — and the lockdowns turned out to be more harmful than the pandemic. Now the people who lied to you want to forget about it, but they can’t quite get their stories straight.

Here’s how one of the biggest hacks in the world, Mike Allen of Axios, rationalizes this journalistic corruption: