The policy of predetermining a narrative and looking for news that will support it is virtually guaranteed to produce a non-representative sample. You have a gi

The policy of predetermining a narrative and looking for news that will support it is virtually guaranteed to produce a non-representative sample. You have a giant bin full of balls that is so large that it contains at least a little bit of every possible color and decide you want to report that the bin is mostly red balls, so you tell your reporters to look for red balls and report anytime they find one. You then use your sample as evidence that in fact the population of the bin is mainly red balls. It's hard to imagine that Ivy League grads who pride themselves on being so much smarter and valuing science so much more than the rest of us would accidentally mistake this process for actual analysis of evidence in search of the truth. It's almost as if that wasn't their objective.