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The difference is that election coverage includes tons of bias, including "calling" it for regions or states before final results are in, sometimes incorrectly,
by 93po 4y ago
The difference is that election coverage includes tons of bias, including "calling" it for regions or states before final results are in, sometimes incorrectly, and with bias towards the preferences of whoever owns the channel/publication. This style of coverage is full of conversation and discourse and all it takes it recalling the night Trump won in 2015 where every single news channel except Fox was expressing disappointment and shock and surprise.
- wanderingstan 4y agoThe above poster was making a different and stronger claim: that publishing even the results of an election is a form of control and not truly “News.” As others have pointed out, this doesn’t hold water. Publishing the result of some fact that people care to know about is arguably even the purest form of “news”: election results, sports scores, stock prices, etc
- pnf 4y agoThere are simple facts like sports scores, and complex, ambiguous, controversial, contentious facts, like election results.
- texxtxxet 4y agoScores are ambiguous ("where exactly did the ball land?"), controversial and contentious, resulting in endless video replays and accusations of biased refs. Where do the sports without ambiguous, controversial and contentious scores hire their bias-free referees?
- pnf 4y agoNo, you're right. What started as a small, humourous concession to the possibility of straight up news falls apart on analysis. But its failure supports my main point pretty well. If sports scores are contentious claims aspiring to the status of fact, then what of wars and elections? The only "fact" is that they are published in newspapers.
- andsoitis 4y agoJust because someone doesn’t believe something doesn’t mean it isn’t so. Just because some don’t believe something doesn’t mean it should count as news.
- privong 4y ago> recalling the night Trump won in 2015 This doesn't really impact the point you're trying to make, but the election was in 2016, not 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia...