The media exists not to report news, but to promote political narratives. It has zero problems lying even when it’s mostly unnecessary, but just sweetens the narrative it already wants to put out there.
In Miami, Eileen Higgins became the first white liberal woman to be elected mayor. She’s the first non-Latino to be elected mayor in 30 years. (And if the parties had been reversed, you know exactly how the media would be spinning the story of a white politician ending 30 years of Latino governance.) Is she the first Democrat in 30 years? Absolutely not.
Manny Diaz, (above) the former chair of the Florida Democratic Party (until recently) served as mayor until 2009. He technically ran as an ‘independent’, but the Miami mayoral elections tend not to be that formally political.
But the media decided to ignore the existence of the former chair of the Florida Democratic Party and claims it’s been 30 years.
Eileen Higgins will win Miami mayor’s race, CNN projects, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold — CNN
Miami elects first woman mayor, ends GOP’s 28-year control of City Hall – Politico
Democrats flip Miami mayor’s office, winning control for first time in nearly 30 years – The Hill
This is what I mean. The media is lying. Its lie has ‘technical’ cover since Diaz ran as an independent, but in the real world, it’s also not actually true.
The media doesn’t even need to tell this particular lie. Flipping an office Republicans had held for 16 years is fine too. But 30 years just sounds better. And the media isn’t here to report the news or even tell fact-based narratives, but to do whatever it can to help its party.
And so it lies.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Daniel became CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 2025.
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