Press-gang is a term used to describe the use of troops working to round up and press free men into military service. Looking at the work of Dana Bash at CNN and the entire Washington Post staff, I think we need another definition: People posing as journalists working to bend our minds to untruths designed to fluff up the Democrats. From the absurd Dana Bash “interview” of Kamala Harris, her first since being nominated to the highest office without ever having received a single vote, to the slavish coverage in the Post, it’s clear they cannot defend the Democrats’ unpopular policies. Instead, they work to hide them, and treat the entire presidential campaign as if it were the selling of new and “improved” laundry soap. (Maybe they’re just auditioning for the ad agency jobs they hope to get when readers and viewers permanently tune them out and their jobs are abolished.)

It’s not a particularly new development. Years ago, a friend was an editor at Time when it was substantially more prestigious and influential than it is today. He told me senior editors bet they could make anyone they chose elected president. They chose Jimmy Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer, made him the second coming in their pages and it worked. Today, I doubt that any single publication or television news staff has that degree of power, but working in tandem they still try.

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(1) Tonga Drag Show

There must be no news of interest to readers this week, because a fourth of the front page and two full pages in the first section were about a drag show in Tonga.

Two reporters had been assigned to cover this story. The drag show is important and its participants brave, we are told because (a) while Tonga has long had strict laws against homosexuality and cross dressing,( b) nevertheless it has “a long tradition “ of men acting like women, (c) “as in the United States, the growing influence of the Mormon Church and the evangelical ministries… has led to a backlash against LGBTQ rights… [unnamed] experts said. ” Tonga is a socially conservative country and criminalizes male homosexuality and cross dressing though the law is apparently rarely enforced. I seriously doubt this long-standing tradition was much influenced by Mormons or evangelicals from the U.S. or Tongans with ties to........

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