After the decisive Republican victory on Election Day, one question bouncing around in conservative circles was: Will this lead the liberal media to change their ways? Will they reflect on how they are not in any way the “mainstream” media? It’s unlikely. They believe all their own bravado about being on the front lines against incoming “fascism.” But at least Brian Stelter went asking around for his “Reliable Sources” newsletter. He kept his media insiders anonymous so they could spill their beans. Stelter said one anchor texted him that while the media speculated about “Trump amnesia,” as in forgetting “the chaos and COVID missteps of his first term.” They said, “Voters DID remember. They just remembered different parts of the Trump presidency.” That’s a crucial distinction. Many Trump voters think the Democrats and the bureaucrats made a lot of “COVID missteps,” but the media have been remarkably uninterested in reevaluating that. The “chaos” was real, but it was perennially exaggerated by the press trying to tear the administration apart and get appointees to quit or get sacked. This anonymous source added that “unconscious bias has an impact, when your values and status in life is so different from the majority of Americans.” They are significantly richer than the average American and thus think “the end of democracy” is the biggest issue, so who cares about inflation? Stelter was forced to face that live on CNN in October when Shermichael Singleton told him that lots of voters are mad about spending billions in aid to Ukraine when we have domestic demands like disaster relief. Stelter shot back that he doesn’t “live in that country” with those complaints and “America’s not that horrible.” Singleton told him to “get out of New York and talk to regular people.”  Then it grew annoying when one radio journalist mourned to Stelter that it’s “hard not to see this election as just a national repudiation of what we do. We spent four years reporting so aggressively” on subjects like election denialism and Jan. 6. And “many voters evidently didn’t care,” Stelter summarized. This election was obviously a repudiation of “what they did.” Voters surely disapproved of rioting at the Capitol. But it was one afternoon, and the Democrats and the press wildly exaggerated it for this entire presidency as something as deadly as 9/11. (RapidEye/iStock/Getty Images) Voters could sense that reporters were working “aggressively” in the same vein as Biden’s prosecutors and the Nancy Pelosi-picked panel on Jan. 6. The objective wasn’t just “accountability.” It was the Democratic Party at work. It was a crusade to drive Trump out of politics altogether and create a blue wave. Many voters saw through all of this, noticing that the talking points of Democratic social media accounts and the “news judgment” of the liberal media match very neatly. They felt they were not watching “news.” It’s more like a perpetual advertisement, the endless drumming of a partisan narrative. One of Stelter’s anonymous journalists asked: Why “stick around” when “the demonization of the media will continue.” But they routinely fail to realize that the demonization of their opponents is their daily bread and brie cheese.  What journalists intended to be Trump’s “vulnerabilities”—the impeachments, the lawsuits, the sexual assault claims, the felony convictions, the Jack Smith probes—were all seen as the Democratic machine at work, even as the media pretended these prosecutors and judges and juries weren’t Democrats. In the end, CNN and The New York Times and the rest are going to keep trying to please their audience with anti-Trump hot takes. They can’t afford to disappoint their “base.” COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post CNN’s Stelter Inadvertently Exposes Legacy Media Cluelessness appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Signs and Blunders: Sunday Reflection

Sticking the landing with a sequel is tricky, doubly so for a game as long in the making and with such a nightmarish development as Stalker 2. GSC Game World’s survival FPS will arrive 15 years after 2009's Call of Pripyat, a game that still haunts my dreams. The sequel was announced in 2010, canceled in 2012, and resurrected in its current form in 2018. Russia's invasion of Ukraine led to further delays as GSC faced the most challenging circumstances any creatives could likely imagine. Now, with launch mere days away, the developer has had years to reflect on the original trilogy, but lead producer Slava Lukyanenka stresses that Stalker 2 is its own beast. Continue reading 14 years in the making, Stalker 2’s ambitions go way beyond “cool tech” upgrades MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Stalker 2 weapons, Stalker 2 release date, Stalker 2 anomalies

There are plenty of videogames that test you and your friends against the unending hordes. Deep Rock Galactic, Left 4 Dead, and Killing Floor all pit you against a seemingly insurmountable opponent, as waves of creatures scramble over each other to tear you limb from limb. Few do it like developer Fatshark, though, and the team has covered both sides of the Warhammer coin with 40k Darktide and Vermintide 2. Whether you've got a hankering for grimdark sci-fi or gory fantasy, then, Fatshark has your back. I'd recommend Warhammer Vermintide 2 right now, because not only is it dirt cheap but it's also just had a huge update, and the Steam player count is the highest it's been in years. Continue reading Now’s the time to play Warhammer Vermintide 2, as PvP helps player counts soar MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best Warhammer games, Best Warhammer 40k games, Best sword games

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