Axios blew the Kennedy hearing
Axios thinks it’s a cut above most news media. But its coverage of the RFK Jr. circus of embarrassment in the Senate this week proved it’s as biased as the rest of the so-called journalists in DC.
Axios was in lockstep with the rest of the media.
Here’s my hate-email to the reporter Peter Sullivan and Axios exec/founder Mike Allen for its biased coverage of the RFK Jr. hearings....
"Having only watched the first half of the RFK Jr. hearings, I can already charge you Axios guys with unfair and unbalanced journalism.
"I trust that reporter Peter Sullivan was either at the hearings or watched the entire circus.
What he says about Kennedy is accurate -- he was indeed what Axios called "defiant, defensive and dyspeptic" at the Senate hearing. He talked over Senators. He argued. He called them (and others) liars and said they were full of it or were making stuff up.
"But you left out any critical or even accurate descriptions of how RFK Jr. was mal-treated by the grandstanding politicians who attacked him -- often hysterically or demagogically -- for not knowing what he was talking about and called him a liar.
They also called him a charlatan, an anti-vaxxer, an enabler of corruption and a destroyer of the CDC, which they -- and you? -- assume was a great and perfect government health organization for 50 years until RFK Jr. came along to clean house and fire the inept or corrupted people who have overseen what lots of people think was a failed and untrustworthy federal agency that for decades has been politicized and captured by Big Pharma.
"You guys should be ashamed of https://axios.com/2025/09/04/rfk-jr-senate-hearing-cdc-firings-covid-vaccine?stream=top
"Your 'print' coverage was no better, no fairer, no less unbalanced than the simplistic and sensationalized TV coverage I saw that cherry picked the loudest and most controversial exchanges that showed grown people yelling at each other during a hearing whose basic 5-minute time format is a joke that guarantees displays of arrogance and stupidity and self-promotion by some of the least impressive political leaders we've elected."
Anyone who abused themselves by watching all three hours of the hearings, as I did, might not have learned much about what Kennedy is or is not doing right or wrong at the POS CDC.
But they would learn what a pack of bipartisan assholes morons we've got making decisions in DC.