Most of us are aware of the kind of anti-Trump propaganda the legacy media loves to disgorge. It’s easy to spot and just as easy to refute.

What’s not so easy is when the media ignore stories or events that may reflect positively on Donald Trump, Republicans, conservatives, or anybody else who refuses to buy into their leftist woke dogma.

This is what we in the news business call the “bias of omission.”

Here are a few recent examples.

President Trump just concluded the biggest trade deal in global history with the European Union. Did you see anything of substance about it on the network news?

I didn’t. I didn’t see it in my local newspaper either.

As the White House said, the deal marks a generational modernization of the transatlantic alliance and will provide Americans with unprecedented levels of market access to the European Union. The EU will purchase $750 billion in U.S. energy and make new investments of $600 billion in the United States, all by 2028. And it opens up European markets to an unprecedented number of American-made products, including automobiles and military equipment.

How about the release of a 48-page top-secret document outlining the corrupt Obama administration’s dishonest creation of the 2016 Russia collusion hoax via the discredited Steele Dossier? DNI Tulsi Gabbard has referred those and thousands of other damning documents to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.

Crickets.

What about the brutal attack by a throng of black men and women on a white couple in Cincinnati? The man was pummeled and kicked as he lay helpless on the street while his wife was knocked unconscious by black racists. Few, if any, legacy media news outlets showed the vicious beatings.

Why not? Because the event didn’t comport with the media’s preferred narrative that only white people are racists. Minorities never are.

The bias of omission by our dishonest media is more dangerous than outright disinformation. It’s the mainstream media deciding what information they want to disseminate. If it doesn’t fit their preferred narrative, you will never hear about it.

In other words, our legacy media is refusing to present all the news without fear or favor and instead is reporting none of the news that it doesn’t favor without fear of criticism.

There is nothing new about this. It’s been going on since Donald Trump’s first tenure as president nine years ago. In fact, I began noticing this pattern of bias of omission by the legacy media as far back as the Ronald Reagan administration.

It wasn’t quite as sweeping as it has been with Donald Trump. For one thing, the unrestricted hatred the media have for Trump is beyond anything I ever witnessed when I was a reporter and editor for the Chicago Tribune eons ago.

Back then, at least reporters, editors, and producers attempted to hide their contempt for Ronald Reagan or the two Bush presidents.

There was at least a pretense at fairness and objectivity. There were tacit rules of journalism that many journalists at least professed to follow—rules that said thou shalt not commit biased reporting and writing, or lie and fabricate stories, or fail to present both sides of a story so readers and viewers could make up their own minds about an issue or event.

Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t point out how our dishonest legacy media loves to spew forth stories that THEY want us to read and view.

Does the Jeffrey Epstein narrative ring a bell?

I thought so. While Trump was hammering out the best trade deal in American history and stopping a nascent war between Thailand and Cambodia, all our deceitful media were doing was laboring to produce stories that somehow tied the president to Epstein’s Lolita Island (Trump was never there, but Bill Clinton was—28 times).

While Trump was making news in Europe, our devious media were working overtime to manufacture any story that might connect Trump to Epstein somehow, someway—PLEASE!

It didn’t work. There is no “there, there” as the media love to say.

There is plenty of “there, there” when it comes to actress Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle Great Jeans ad controversy, however.

Our legacy media, constantly exploring ways to foment racial violence, breathlessly barfed forth one story after another in which racists from various minority communities called the ads an example of white supremacy.

How fatuous.

The ads feature Euphoria star Sweeney, 27, speaking directly to the camera. “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color … my genes are blue,” she says, while seductively buttoning up a pair of jeans.

The wordplay between “jeans” and “genes” is presented as a clever twist, but racist detractors and their media surrogates argue it is far more insidious. The play on words has drawn widespread backlash on social media and reignited gasping legacy media conversations about racism, eugenics, and the historical exploitation of women in advertising.

Oh my. I can already hear the jackbooted Nazi brown shirts parading down America’s swastika festooned streets.

“Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,” says the offending tagline for American Eagle’s fall denim collection. Forget about the fact that American Eagle is selling sexy jeans and they hired a sexy woman — like so many other ad campaigns have done before them—to do so.

But a media-inspired cavalcade of internet influencers, pundits, and ugly, fat women with grotesque facial piercings isn’t having it.

“It’s Nazi-like,” intoned one bulky prattler on her podcast.

What a stretch that is. As someone else wrote, “The art of clever marketing seems to be lost on this whiny generation.”

I couldn’t agree more.

Ashley Schapiro, an executive at American Eagle, disclosed the behind-the-scenes moment that set the provocative campaign in motion. She praised the collaboration’s massive impact.

“The star power of Sydney and the double meaning behind the campaign has a culture-shaping power beyond anything I could have ever imagined being a part of- just check your social feeds,” Schapiro said, adding that “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Genes- and so can you.”

Sydney Sweeney can also move markets. American Eagle’s stock shot up nearly 20 percent after the campaign dropped, adding some $400 million to the asset value of the company overnight. And by the way, the profits are going to a domestic violence charity. That fact has been lost amid the hysterical screeching.

Meanwhile, the screeds and disparagements continue from social media trolls and mainstream newsrooms: “Hide your whiteness, Sydney. How dare you display your terrible, racist white skin?”

And there you have our feckless, injudicious legacy media and the hives of social media maharishis. They refuse to discuss the biggest economic/trade story in the past half century—one that is altering the entire global economy and trading system—while they are doing their best to push a trivial story about a beautiful young woman selling blue jeans.

I think White House communications director, Steven Cheung, may have said it best: “Cancel culture run amok. This warped, moronic, and dense liberal thinking is a big reason why Americans voted the way they did in 2024. They’re tired of this bullshit.”

Indeed. Where are your priorities, legacy media?

Here’s a non-story truly worth omitting, but you choose to feature it along with the Epstein yarn, hoping one will somehow eclipse or denigrate President Trump’s recent string of economic and political successes

Dream on.

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