On Tuesday, the never-ending Biden Press Secretary show on MS NOW, The Briefing with Jen Psaki, took up a supposedly disturbing journalistic trend in Baltimore. Some "MAGA billionaire" is forcing the liberal Democrat governor of Maryland -- Wes Moore -- to answer questions about his exaggerations of his life story. Psaki wasn't going to ask Moore about his lies. She was going to underline the right-wing bias problem:
PSAKI: I want to ask you about another reason you're in the news right now, which is your record in the military, and in office has come under remarkably close scrutiny by the Baltimore Sun. And on is face, it’s not a bad thing, obviously journalism is important, and certainly public figures should be scrutinized.
But what people should know about the larger context is that the paper is now owned by a Trump ally named David Smith, who is the executive chairman of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. We've talked about the Sinclair Broadcast Group a lot on this show. And according to new reporting from Semafor, the paper has brought on a team of investigators from Sinclair to comb through your record and in one message to your staff, they even threatened to present their findings to the Secretary of the Army's office. Now, I have been, I have dealt with a lot of investigative reporters in my time. I have never heard of anything like that before. But explain for our viewers what is happening here.
Jen Psaki and Gov. Wes Moore (D-Md.) lament that the Baltimore Sun used to be the "paper of record" (when it was a liberal paper) and now it's hopelessly "right wing" when it probes Moore's biographical lies.
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Psaki harrumphed briefly about "public figures should be scrutinized," but Democrats aren't going to be scrutinized on her show, or MS NOW in general. Moore was granted a platform to disparage the "right-wing" paper's efforts:
WES MOORE: Well, it's actually a very sad day because the Baltimore Sun used to be our paper of record. It's now become the paper of the right wing.
And I think we've seen how the readership has continued to decline, but it's happened because you've had a MAGA billionaire who is now currying favor for the president of the United States and utilizing what used to be a prized paper for our region, and now turning it into something that is not much more than right wing dribble.
You know, the I'm deeply proud of my military service. I'm deeply proud of the fact that I served with, with, with people who I respect. And frankly, no one in the Army questions. The United States Army doesn't question my integrity. The soldiers I serve with don't question my integrity.
It's plain that Moore claimed he received a Bronze Star he had not been awarded – The New York Times, not a right-wing paper, reported that in 2024. If reporting like that is “questioning his integrity,” some liberal “papers of record” did that. But Moore kept hammering his “right-wing” line, to shame voters out of taking this story line seriously.
MOORE: But we are seeing how the right wing, and these right wing billionaires like David Smith is then using his wealth to be able to manipulate local media and is doing it not just in Maryland, but this is a canary in the coal mine for things that are happening all over the country. And they're doing it to curry favor for Donald Trump. And so, so it's, it's unfortunate that this is where that this is where local news for the Baltimore Sun and for the Sinclair properties have happened. But I do think it's an important warning shot for the rest of the country as well.
Accountability journalism is a “warning shot" and a "canary in the coal mine."
