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> If the media should be giving equal status and weight to all the parties I'm not saying they need to give them equal status, necessarily - I'm saying that th
by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> If the media should be giving equal status and weight to all the parties
I'm not saying they need to give them equal status, necessarily - I'm saying that the employees of these institutions exist in a bubble mostly cause of class&geographic reasons.
The point is that all of these positions "Biden will naturally win in a landslide per polling" are tacitly accepted and challenges are dismissed as hearsay.
There needs to be some challenge/discourse against the elite orthodoxy.
- bryanlarsen 6y agoI didn't see any of the elite media saying "Biden will naturally win in a landslide per polling". They were saying that in 2016. In 2020 much more common was "the polls are showing a landslide, but I don't trust the polls completely any more". If you are saying that the polls were deliberately biased, I disagree strongly. It's a really freaking hard job if only 1-3% of the people you try to poll don't hang up the phone on you. That the polling error was under 10% was incredible in that scenario. The media is biased. The polls had an error. Two very different things.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y ago> but I don't trust the polls completely any more That certainly was not the case. There was a bit of shell-shocked fear about 4 more years of Trump, but they most certainly did not expect a nail-biter election where Republicans outperformed in most areas, whether it's the presidential election in states(and pretty darn close to 10% off in some places), the Senate, the House or state legislatures.