The most recent episode of The Daily is a perfect example of how legacy media has begun to protect its audience from reality rather than inform it. By shrinking China’s leverage down to a talking point about rare earths, Keith Bradsher offers a psychologically manageable story — not a strategically honest one. This is not journalism failing to notice the threat; it is journalism carefully downsizing the threat into something the American psyche can tolerate. We are not negotiating with Beijing from a position of strength — we are negotiating from a posture of dependency that the U.S. press keeps airbrushing out of frame.

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