By John Ubaldi, “Ubaldi Reports”

The famed Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn speaking at a Harvard commencement address in 1978 uttered the prophetic analogy regarding the media, “What sort of responsibility does a journalist or a newspaper have to his readers, or to his history — or to history?”

Solzhenitsyn continued to call out the media for their duplicitous reporting, by stating what responsibility does the media have, “If they have misled public opinion or the government by inaccurate information or wrong conclusions, do we know of any cases of public recognition and rectification of such mistakes by the same journalist or the same newspaper? It hardly ever happens because it would damage sales. A nation may be the victim of such a mistake, but the journalist usually always gets away with it.”

Fast forward to 2022, the media has done everything in its power to protect Democrats, especially the presidency of Joe Biden.  Throughout the 2020 presidential election, the media allowed Biden to remain hidden in his basement, but extremely overtly hostile to Donald Trump, reporting on any salacious accusation that was devoid of any credible evidence. That just didn’t matter as long has it hurt Trump!

Democratic political analyst Doug Schoen stated that his media friends mentioned to him that it’s their duty to take down the Trump presidency.

Medical doctors have a Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to their patients, and journalists also have a responsibility to be accurate, fair, and thorough in their reporting. Unfortunately, the media have massively failed to adhere to their own set of ethical  codes in reporting.

The Society of Professional Journalists lays out a code of journalistic ethical standards that all in the media should follow; unfortunately, today’s media has abolished any charade of being accurate, fair and thorough in their reporting thus throwing their own code of ethics into the trash.

Throughout the 2020 presidential election, the mainstream media of the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN and other media affiliates as they are too numerous to mention have willfully engaged in partisan reporting with their stated objective of furthering a partisan Democratic narrative.

All one has to do is reference the ethical standard set forth by the Society of Professional Journalist to review if the media has been accurate, fair, and free of any preconceived bias in reporting.

The biggest non-reporting was the effort by Hillary Clinton and the Democrats to claim that Donald Trump had in fact colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election, later we learned that Clinton had in fact paid for the Russian dossier of the salacious accusations found in the Steele dossier against Trump.

The main stream media invested its entire efforts in its non-stop coverage of the Steele dossier without even bothering to do any of even the basic rudimentary verification of its authentication.

After the election we learned that the Clinton campaign had in fact paid for the dossier, but lied to the American people, Congress, the FBI, the media, and Department of Justice.

Of course, four years ago, the media was all-in on the Russian collusion allegations. The media was doing non-stop coverage of the Steele dossier with little scrutiny or effort to uncover those who funded it. The dossier was later discredited and American intelligence warned that Russian intelligence may have used it to plant disinformation. While the Clinton campaign repeatedly denied funding the dossier, it was revealed (after the election) that not only did the Clinton campaign fund and push the dossier but also allegedly lied to Congress, the media, and the FBI.

Late last year we have learned through John Durham Special Counsel investigation that  onetime lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign Michael Sussmann a former partner at the Democrat-aligned Perkins Coie firm will likely stand trial in late spring 2022 on charges of lying to the FBI during a 2016 meeting about possible links between Russia and Donald Trump.

The media failed to care about the massive abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were the DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz randomly reviewed 29 FISA warrants and found that there was widespread non-compliance with the Woods Procedures, and provides greater detail on specific instances of non-compliance.

The Woods Procedures was named for Michael Woods, the FBI official who drafted the rules as head of the Office of General Counsel’s National Security Law Unit. They were instituted in April 2001 to “ensure accuracy with regard to … the facts supporting probable cause” after recurring instances, presumably inadvertent, in which the FBI had presented inaccurate information to the FISA court.

Prior to Woods Procedures, “Incorrect information was repeated in subsequent and related FISA packages,” the FBI told Congress in August 2003. “By signing and swearing to the declaration, the headquarters agent is attesting to knowledge of what is contained in the declaration.”

Minimal coverage was given to former Federal Bureau of Investigation assistant general counsel Kevin Clinesmith who pleaded guilty to altering a document that was submitted to the FISA Court which was used to justify surveillance of Carter Page a former adviser to Donald Trump.

The Federal Prosecutor on the case Anthony Scarpelli said during the hearing that Mr. Clinesmith’s action caused “immeasurable” damage to the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process overseen by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC.

Crickets from the media!

Over the years at the blatantly false narratives perpetrate by the media without any basis of evidence to back up there conclusions.

  • The Brett Kavanaugh false sexual assault accusations.
  • Nicholas Sandmann false racial incident.
  • Jussie Smollett false racial and homophobic attack by Trump supporters.
  • The false coverage of Kyle Rittenhouse self-defense case.
  • The false reporting of Russia funding of bounties given to the Taliban to kill U.S. Marines.

These are just a smidgen of stories that were deliberately falsely reported on by the media, but look at how the media covered President Joe Biden compared to President Trump.

In 2021, has the media covered Biden with the same intensity as was given to Trump, would Trump have been given a pass when Biden stated last month that “Look, there is no federal solution,” to the coronavirus, according to a transcript of a conversation he had with a group of governors. “This gets solved at a state level.”

Trump was eviscerated by the media for stating the same thing in 2020, but Biden was given a pass for saying the very same thing! Look how the media has covered Biden’s handling of the coronavirus, the economy, inflation, and the rising crime gripping America’s urban core.

Has the media even bothered to ask Biden with regard to the shortages of available Covid test, despite allocating $73 billion that was part of the close to $2 trillion of The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Where do the money go, Republican Senator from Maine Susan Collins alleges that her staff researched and found that much was diverted to the border, is this true? Why is the media not curious, would they not have reported this if this where a Republican president?

Where was the media coverage of Dr. Anthony Fauci expressing doubt the coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan lab, even during fiery Senate testimony, with Fauci repeatedly dening this assertion in his clashes with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., that the U.S. government never funded the lab’s research.

Later documents revealed and which were obtained by the Intercept revealed the National Institute of Health had indeed funded $3.1 million into American health organization EcoHealth Alliance that vacillated backing bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and that close to $600,000 of federal money was partially used by the WIV to find and alter bat coronaviruses that could jump to humans and infect them.

The media continued to push the false narrative that Critical Race Theory wasn’t being taught in the Virginia public school system when documents revealed that it is and has begun under former Democratic state governor Terry McAuliffe in 2015.

What about the debacle of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the abandonment of hundreds of Americans, and we still do not have an accurate accounting of those left behind.

More could be written on how the media does the bidding and is embedded in the Democratic Party, if our democracy is to survive we need an independent media! To bad we are not getting it!