Axios CEO James VandeHei recently broke down his thoughts on why people lost trust in the media, but he focused on ‘ a couple of bad apples’ and ignored the bushels of leftist media bias.
The first thing Vandehei blames is Twitter for exposing the bias of reporters.
“It was a hot bed of liberal groupthink for a long time, and it was the first time since I've been in this business that I would get on a feed and I would see reporters who I had trusted, who I had admired, making it crystal clear what their views were, what side they were on,” Vandehei told the ‘Honestly with Barry Weiss’ podcast. “You could tell in what they were tweeting, and you could tell in who they were following and who was following them. So I thought that was stage one, because at least before any bias people had, they hid from the public.
The second item mentioned by Vandehei was deceitful coverage.
Axios founder @JimVandeHei says trust in American media collapsed in three phases.
— Honestly with Bari Weiss (@thehonestlypod) April 8, 2025
1. Twitter exposed the political bias of “objective” journalists.
2. Coverage of Covid, “defund the police,” and word policing didn’t sit right with Americans.
3. The lack of coverage around Joe… pic.twitter.com/aTpxAZQrYr
“Then came along kind of the Covid, 'defund the police,' uh, word policing, where I think a lot of Americans were looking around and be like, this doesn't sit right with me. And it doesn't in the way it's being covered -didn't sit right with them. And then I think the final straw really, was the coverage of Joe Biden when people were saying, hey, I could see with my own two eyes that the guy seems pretty old.”
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Somehow Vandehei failed to mention the Hunter Biden laptop, the Russian collusion hoax and so much more.
But that’s not all he missed.
“I am a fierce, fierce defender of journalism. I believe that most reporters at most institutions actually do try to get to the closest approximation of the truth and achieve it- most of the time. I think it's a couple of bad apples who make it look bad for everyone.”
“A couple of bad apples”? The leftist media is rotten to the core, and there are bushels of them. X commenters on the video post were quick to point out the obvious in this case, you can view some of their comments below.
