Biden's document fiasco: How the media ignores US imperialism by generating meaningless scandals
Another empty scandal for US news networks to focus on while another US president bombs the world with impunity
Biden allegedly mishandled classified documents. Trump allegedly mishandled classified documents. Another president, another meaningless scandal for our useless “news” networks to focus on while war crimes slip under the radar.
The media perfected the art of generating hollow controversies during the Obama years, a time when legitimate anti-war criticisms were routinely drowned out by brain-dead scandals involving things like tan suits and birth certificates.
Trump’s presidency involved endless coverage and debate about his alleged collusion with Russia, an empty narrative which provided phenomenal coverage for the president as he amped up military spending, raided Syria and Yemen, pardoned actual war criminals, and committed open acts of war against Iran.
Biden’s first term in office has so far involved funneling weapons to Ukraine, bombing Somalia, keeping troops in Syria, and boosting defense spending.
Mainstream news networks couldn’t care less.
US aggression around the world has become so normalized that it no longer deserves mention. War isn’t a scandal anymore, and so in a desperate effort to remain relevant and sustain their ratings, networks have resorted to generating their own scandals.
The US allocated $800 billion for “defense” spending in 2023 and Biden has already started the new year with a Somalia airstrike, and yet the big “scandal” that will occupy headlines across the country in the coming weeks will be about his handling of classified documents, a trivial issue with no impact on the lives of Americans barely surviving under the weight of stagnating wages and rising costs of living.
It speaks volumes about the integrity of our news networks when they provide endless debate on topics such as whether a president should be punished for mishandling classified documents while offering little to no debate on topics such as whether a president should be allowed to misuse the world’s most funded military power.