In a recent article, Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, noted that the media is now less trustworthy than Congress. “Something we’re doing is clearly not working,” he wrote.

It was a refreshing admission that followed the uproar at the far-left Post over its decision not to endorse a presidential candidate. Of course, most of the staff was determined to support Kamala Harris, and some were furious, accusing Bezos of trying to curry favor with Donald Trump.

In his column, the owner dismissed the allegation while noting that the endorsements “create a perception of bias . . . terminating them is a principled decision.”

Bezos deserves credit for explaining his decision, but events prove that he misdiagnoses the disease and vastly underestimates it.

The problem is not that the public thinks the media is biased. The problem is that the media is biased.

The primary evidence is not editorial endorsements or opinion columns labeled as such. Bias is revealed when articles that are supposed to be fair news are so one-sided that they are indistinguishable from propaganda.

Agenda-based logs

To borrow a phrase from the late Ed Koch, too many reporters are nothing more than politicians with press passes.

This is certainly the case with The Washington Post, which has been at the forefront of the media frenzy that has dominated the final days of the campaign. Along with ABC, NBC, and CBS, The New York Times, CNN, NPR, and the Associated Press, Bezos’ publication embarrassed itself by shilling for Harris in his news pages, facts be damned.

This is not the usual tilt that we have unfortunately come to expect. This is a whole new level of gross misconduct.

I’ve never seen anything like it – and neither has anyone else. History is made in a terrible way.

It seems unbelievable now, but just 20 years ago, during the 2004 campaign, CBS anchor Dan Rather was caught presenting fake documents to claim that President George W. Bush had received preferential military treatment in the 1970s to avoid being sent to Vietnam.

CBS investigated and Rather and his team were fired. Nowadays, given how corrupt CBS is, they would be celebrated.

This is how the media has fallen. Fearful that Harris might lose Tuesday’s vote, most major channels are shedding even the pretense of professionalism and fairness to serve up distorted and sometimes fabricated “wisdom” moments against Trump.

Each is delivered with a breathless urgency aimed at swaying voters.

Monday reeks of false claims that Trump hates Puerto Ricans and his insane success the rally at Madison Square Garden was filled with racism.

I was there – it was a jovial, spirited crowd with a comedian doing a tasteless joke.

Then came the ludicrous claims that Trump targets women with his policies and doesn’t care what they want or say — all designed to pump up Harris with women.

Spin Cycle Liz Cheney

On Friday he brought the shameful charge that he threatened Liz Cheney, the GOP backbencher, with execution.

In fact, what Trump clearly did was call her a war hawk who wouldn’t last a minute in battle if she had to face enemy weapons pointed at her.

But why report the truth when a lie is so much more useful?

Harris, who escaped any serious scrutiny, naturally drew inspiration from the media jihad and declared that every made-up issue proved Trump unfit.

Her remarks were then presented by the same media outlets, as if repetition makes them valid. This is what passes for a news cycle in 2024.

Anti-Trump prejudice has been a regular feature of his 9-year political career, but the open hatred of his supporters has reached new depths.

When Hillary Clinton called them “deplorable” and “irretrievable” in 2016, the media recognized her disdain and warned it could hurt her.

Fast forward to how the same press cut Joe Biden’s description of Trump supporters as “garbage.”

The intent was so clear that the White House offered stupid lies to make her appear innocent. When that didn’t work, the aides changed the official transcript, which angered the stenographers.

If a President Trump had called Harris’ supporters “garbage” and then attempted a cover-up, the dignitaries would have called for his impeachment and the media would have cheered like trained seals.

Burying Biden’s blunders

But when Biden does, the press rushes to Harris’s rescue, calling the incident Republicans “seizing” on a Biden “blunder.”

Also notice a lack of follow-up stories about how Trump supporters felt about being called “garbage” by the president who promised to unite the nation.

No surprise. Nowadays, “MAGA Republican” is used as a synonym to describe someone as stupid, crazy, racist, misogynistic or even a traitor! Who cares how they feel?

Besides, most of the media thinks Biden was right.

It’s all part of the “see no-evil” approach to virtually everything Democrats do and say. When they fail, their motives are always pure and their mistakes innocent.

Everything Trump says and does comes from a heart of darkness.

This media misconduct is a big part of why I’m voting for Trump.

Beyond the disastrous policies of the Biden-Harris administration, the progressive cultural rot they support is undermining our nation. The the rise of anti-Semitism on college campuses it reveals the abandonment of university presidents, faculty and administrators, but the White House has been shamefully silent because most of the Jew-hatred comes from the left wing of their party.

Other signs of cultural insanity include the administration’s near-religious devotion to climate change and its use of elementary schools to indoctrinate children in radical theories of gender and race.

Almost without exception, the press corps embraced these attacks on Jews and on American life and history. A Trump victory would provide a crucial victory.

Remember that his victory in 2016 provided an essential course correction in both politics and culture, and another correction is sorely needed now.

That’s not to say that I think a Trump presidency would lead to soul-searching and a new commitment to fairness among leftist institutions. After all, his first election saw them spend four years trying to get him impeached, convicted and prosecuted.

Many, including the Times, have seen a rise in readership, which its former CEO Mark Thompson called the “Trump bump.”

Indeed, it was an anti-Trump coup. And Thompson now runs CNN.

Still, a second Trump election would, at least for a while, destroy the prestige and power of the gates and allow new outlets to gain an audience by following facts instead of a partisan agenda.

The way Elon Musk has turned X into a leading source of news and opinion is an example of what could happen elsewhere. Having a president dedicated to free speech should further shame Big Media into dropping support for censorship of facts and opinions they don’t like.

More broadly, a second Trump term would teach independent Americans that they can freely ignore the kind of disinformation created last week in an attempt to help Harris.

That alone could be a gift that keeps on giving.