juillet 10, 2024 - 5:20pm
Récemment, les médias américains ont intensifié leurs critiques à l’encontre du président Joe Biden, certains appelant à ce qu’il se retire de la course présidentielle de 2024. Après une décennie à agir pour ‘sauver la démocratie’, la presse semble maintenant rapporter les faits de manière traditionnelle. Malheureusement, tout n’est pas aussi simple qu’il n’y paraît.
Cette nouvelle attention portée à un homme auparavant dépeint comme incapable de commettre la moindre erreur est clairement motivée par les préoccupations électorales des journaux, et non par un engagement envers la transparence ou l’intérêt public. La réalité est simple : le virage anti-Biden des médias est davantage une stratégie politique visant à assurer une victoire démocrate en novembre qu’un exercice d’éthique journalistique.
Néanmoins, la rapidité et la profondeur du revirement ont été brutales. Le lendemain de sa désastreuse prestation lors du débat contre Donald Trump, le New York Times a publié un éditorial décrivant Biden comme ‘l’ombre d’un grand serviteur public’. Le Times n’a pas mâché ses mots dans ses préoccupations, qui étaient presque entièrement axées sur sa capacité à être élu. ‘La chance la plus évidente qu’ont les démocrates de vaincre un candidat défini par ses mensonges est de traiter honnêtement avec le public américain : reconnaître que Joe Biden ne peut pas poursuivre sa course’, déclarait l’article.
Cette semaine, NBC News a présenté un expert en Parkinson qui a spéculé sur le fait que Biden pourrait être atteint de la maladie, alimentant ainsi davantage les doutes sur sa capacité à servir. Cela fait suite à des rapports selon lesquels un neurologue spécialisé dans la maladie de Parkinson s’est rendu à plusieurs reprises à la Maison-Blanche, ce qui soulevé ostensiblement des inquiétudes concernant la santé cognitive de Biden. Jake Tapper de CNN a également rejoint le chœur des critiques cette semaine : ‘De nombreux responsables démocrates avec lesquels j’ai parlé disent que le président Biden, sa famille et son cercle intime semblent être en totale dénégation.’
Le moment médiatique le plus accablant a peut-être été une apparition sur CNN de Carl Bernstein, qui a rapporté que, depuis plus d’un an, des proches de Biden se sont adressés au chef de cabinet de la Maison-Blanche, Jeff Zients, pour exprimer leurs inquiétudes quant à la santé mentale du président.
Tout cela fait suite à des années passées par les médias à ignorer une interminable série de moments troublants de la part de Biden, notamment de nombreuses chutes, des absences en public et une confusion entre Emmanuel Macron de la France et l’ancien président François Mitterrand décédé depuis longtemps. Au lieu de cela, la presse s’est concentrée sur les mèmes Dark Brandon, les récits déchirants de sa dévotion en tant que père et, bien sûr, son amour pour la crème glacée.
Alors que le zèle des médias pour critiquer un candidat démocrate n’est pas une nouveauté, il leur reste encore de grandes lacunes. Par exemple, la presse a été véhémente sur les lacunes de Biden en tant que candidat à l’élection. Mais peu d’organisations de presse ont abordé la question cruciale de qui dirige actuellement le pays le plus puissant du monde.
Les enquêtes journalistiques sur les révélations scandaleuses selon lesquelles Hunter Biden agirait comme gardien de la présidence ont été rares, avec un seul média, Axios, étant à l’origine de presque tous les reportages. De même, il n’y a pas eu d’analyses approfondies sur la dissimulation extensive de l’état mental de Biden. Aucun travail journalistique n’a été lancé pour révéler comment cela a pu se produire ou qui était impliqué.
À la place, la presse persiste dans son slogan acharné de ‘Sauver la démocratie’ comme moyen de rationaliser son approche du journalisme en tant que plaidoyer politique. Étant donné tout cela, si les sondages de Biden s’améliorent — ce qui pourrait bien arriver à un moment donné — ces critiques sont susceptibles de s’estomper. Les récits médiatiques pourraient rapidement changer, les médias minimisant les préoccupations de santé antérieures et se concentrant plutôt sur les aspects positifs de Biden. Ou bien sûr, revenir à la norme de l’attaque contre Trump.
Si les chiffres de sondage de Biden rebondissent, les médias vont probablement changer de cap et qualifier le débat — ainsi que tout ce que nous avons vu avant et après — de ‘nature épisodique’. Ensuite — tout comme les animateurs de Pod Save America se sont engagés à le faire — peu importe la quantité de preuves accumulées sur le dysfonctionnement intellectuel de Biden, ils se rangeront derrière leur candidat choisi.
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SubscribeGosh, isn’t this the same group that other studies have discovered to be far more left wing or radical left-wing than the other sex/gender? Could there possibly be a connection between left wing ideology and mental health? I thought this connection was well known by now! Search for dark triad character traits and left-wing activism/authoritarianism in Google Scholar!
Just another front in the Left’s war on western culture: “Of course you’re miserable, girls, (gays, transexuals, poor, African Americans, Indigenous people, etc.) you’re being victimized by (basically adult white males) and despairing alienation SHOULD by your mindset.
“Adolescent conditions—depression and anxiety, psychological distress, and suicidal behaviors—are increasing in many countries worldwide, and that growth is occurring most markedly among girls, according to a new survey of research published by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the University of Iowa.
“The research review article, published August 8, 2023, co-authored by Katherine Keyes, PhD, professor of Epidemiology at Columbia Mailman School and Jonathan Platt, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology at UI, summarizes studies published since 2010 from around the world. The paper is published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.”
https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/new-evidence-rising-youth-mental-health-concerns#:~:text=Adolescent%20mental%20health%20conditions%E2%80%94depression,University%20Mailman%20School%20of%20Public
Right on cue, several district school boards in Ontario are suing social media companies for damaging the minds of the young, particularly young girls, and impeding their education. Columnist Jamie Sarkonek in the National Post this day takes the teachers and their boards to task for their failed experimental methods in pedagogy, the elimination of merit streaming and performance standards, and for turning the schools into venues to propagandize the young with their anti-traditional ideology and radical views on sex and race – amongst other professional failings, like neglecting to discipline bad behaviour.
Those are my words on Sarkonek column but I believe with him that these practices have done more to harm young people than smartphone usage. Not that those devices haven’t done their part. I have a high regard for Jonathan Haidt, and those devices are certainly bad habit forming, but how can young people not be confused by the norm-busting going on all around them?
Social media should be sued out of existence. If Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok, and ever site like them disappeared tomorrow and weren’t replaced the world would be massively better off.
Inept article. Jonathan Haidt has just produced The.Anxious Mind with a 4 step plan clearly outlining what we need to do about it. Any major podcaster in the past 14 days has carried an interview with Prof Haidt. It’s not difficult, but it does require collective action given the social pressures to engage with SM.
I do sense that society is getting ready to take action on this topic. At last…. the evidence has been clear as a lightbulb since 2016 and Twenge’s work.
Nobody’s going to do anything meaningful because to make a difference you have to destroy several of the largest corporations in the world.
A great start would be to permanently shut down Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok, and anyone who tries to mimic them. They are clearly a huge net negative for our society.
What’s the point of being a woman now? The goals that young women are told to aspire to are just worn out male pattern defaults for work and play.
Put them in full Islamic dress an keep them indoors and out of public discourse. They are not, and never will be competent in this world.
An arresting idea, but not one that chimes with my hopes for the future.
Somebody put some posters around a town saying “islam was right about women” (think in the US).
None of the women interviewed had the guts to disagree. But of course they would happily denounce western society and white men.
Which ironically does prove that those posters were right. Islam was right. Western women are proving that in front of our eyes.
“worn out male pattern defaults for work and play.”
Worse.
Men worked for the satisfaction of building a home and family, played because they enjoyed sports, gaming, etc.
Women today do the career but without the responsibility of being the breadwinner, which is am empty hollow shell of a life, just trudging to office
They also refuse things like having children or taking care of their homes, because it’s “unpaid labour’ and “slavery”, and wallow in resentment that the “patriarchy ” stops them from entering spaces such as sports that they don’t even care about.
You could start by correctly labeling incessant ‘judgment and comparison’ as sexual harassment and psychological abuse, which it is. Then stop allowing it.
Easier said than done to “stop allowing it”, as though it can be waived away with a magic wand. Moreover, in my experience, girls and young women are their own worst enemies when it comes to incessant judgement and comparison, mainly amongst themselves.
Spot on. Social media just seems to have sent it into overdrive. It was bad enough in those awful women’s magazines which focussed on things like celebrity cellulite. Now it’s out of control and women are paying the price.
Yes, you have a good point there. We women are frequently our own worst enemies. This phenomenon predates social media, but has been exacerbated by being online and exposed to so much toxicity. Some of it comes from males, but a significant portion is driven by other females.
Is it “sexual harassment” if it is carried out by other women, and without any sexual intent? And much of the problem seems to be women projecting overly positive self images (“living my best life”) while simultaneously making negative comparisons between their own real life and the fake projections of other women.
I agree it’s destructive, but to try and stop it, as you say, would be like launching a war against modern female culture. You might as well try to outlaw Botox, cosmetic surgery and the rest.
You might as well try to outlaw Botox, cosmetic surgery and the rest.
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It would be great not to see those monstrously huge shapeless lips
If you compare you are either better or worse. Both miss the point that you have to find value in yourself. The one who has to stop allowing it is yourself. And responsible adults – parents – should show that by example. Basically young females need to be contained. Father’s work. But many fathers are weak nowadays.
Or absent.
Boundaries and limits are important for boys and girls when growing up! As is taking responsibility for your actions and behaviour. Unfortunately, many parents just want to be their children’s friends, and fear that setting limits will make them unpopular. Parenting is work, and having children isn’t a walk in the park.
When young men are expected to initiate contact with women and face the risk of rejection, humiliation, judgement and being insulted, does that also count as “sexual harassment and psychological abus’