<![CDATA[I first started using the term Protection Racket Media almost three years ago. It came up in an Amiable Skeptics VIP podcast with my friend (and yours), Adam Baldwin, when discussing the corruption around Joe Biden and the media's refusal to take it seriously. At the time, the revelation of nearly two dozen LLCs in the Biden family laundering foreign money from the House Oversight Committee had generated nearly no coverage at all from the same American media archipelago that breathlessly reported on the danger of having diplomats stay in Trump-owned hotels a few years earlier. ]]>