A ‘Deception’ Of Journalists And 9 Other Terms For The Media Who Hoax And Hate You Daily

White House Correspondents’ Association President Eugene Daniels opened his organization’s infamous annual dinner party this year by declaring that the corporate media are “not … the enemy of the people” and “not … the enemy of the state.”

Daniels’ attempt to salvage the press’s flailing reputation with one turn of tongue at an irrelevant event is laughable and, more importantly, incredibly inaccurate.

Journos who invent hoaxes and smears, cheer censorship, and refuse to report news that would harm their preferred political party are the enemy of the people and so much more. Any attempt by the WHCA or anyone else to reframe the fabulists who control corporate newsrooms as anything but is deliberately dishonest and deserves incessant mocking.

Here are 10 ways (minus a few that we won’t print because, unlike a Zoom call with Jeffrey Toobin, The Federalist is family-friendly) to refer to a collection of so-called reporters.

A Deception

Whether it was the Wuhan virus, President Joe Biden’s obvious senility and family corruption, inflation, the border invasion, attempted assassinations of President Donald Trump, or more, the press is known for diluting the narrative and replacing it with a version of events that benefits their agenda. Historically, they’ve stopped at nothing, including fabrication and omitting facts, to ensure that Americans never hear the truth.

A Slander or Libel

When it comes to corporate media, slander and libel are the name of the game. What better way to refer to the outlets and talking heads who faced lawsuits for defamation than to label them by their tactics?

A Dumpster

Calling the media outlets that lost the trust of eight in 10 Americans to report the facts a “dumpster” or, better yet, a “dumpster fire” is nowhere short of accurate. The press’s commitment to rash TV talking points and garbage “reporting” will only further the media’s tarnished reputation.

An Echo

Over and over and over, journos have reprinted fabrications masquerading as confirmed stories based on the inaccurate deceptions of an anonymous source. Despite its inorganic and unethical origins, rumor mill reporting generated by one or two unnamed, unreliable narrators is used by the press as a political weapon to disseminate Democrats’ talking points and smear their political enemies.

A Clown Car

No matter how many times the corporate media embarrass and expose themselves as fake news, they are showered with never-ending rewards such as Pulitzers and promotions. It doesn’t get more clown show than that.

Legion of Liars

If corporate media are consistent about anything, it’s their ability to lie, lie, lie, and lie about anything and everything.

Cesspool

You may have heard a group of pushy reporters yelling out questions referred to as a “press pool.” The press’s horrendous track record when it comes to asking key questions of politicians and officials, however, suggests that a collection of handpicked journos with prewritten questions is more precisely a cesspool.

Democrats

This straightforward yet classic moniker is funny because it’s true. Survey results from 2022 showed only 3.4 percent of full-time American journalists claimed to be Republican, compared to the 36 percent who identified as Democrat.

In recent days, the corporate press has bemoaned the Trump administration’s work to balance the composition of the White House press pool after leftist reporters dominated this space during the Biden era. For example, in a White House press briefing tasked with covering the beginnings of the Biden administration, specifically, research found Democrats outnumbered Republicans 12 to one.

Presstitutes

A subtler but no less impactful label to describe how outlets have sold themselves out to leftists and their anti-American agenda is presstitutes. What makes the media’s promiscuity (figuratively and literally) worse is that some are paid for their “services” with your tax dollars.

Propagandists

As Federalist CEO Sean Davis noted in a recent speech, “there’s nothing mainstream about the politics of the major media outlets that have sought to control the political conversation for decades.”

The people who hoax their way through the news of the day to accomplish an agenda for their preferred political party are, by all definitions, not reporters, but regime propagandists who will stop at nothing to obstruct the truth.

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Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.

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