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    I figured we needed a thread specifically about the media.

    There was a very big correction recently by the Washington Post.


    That story was supposedly "independently confirmed" by CNN, NBC News, USA Today, ABC News, & PBS News Hour. How could they all have gotten the quote wrong if they actually independently confirmed the story?






    Why do all the errors always go in one political direction and not closer to 50/50?
     
    After the 2016 election, the mainstream media and pollsters were filled with remorse for horribly misreading the national mood and wrongly predicting a Hillary Clinton win. How had they missed the mark so badly?


    Yet after a similar media failure in this year’s midterm elections? Mostly crickets so far.

    If the media really want to improve their credibility and serve the interests of democracy, they need another round of introspection.

    What’s needed is serious and permanent changes in the way the media cover elections — especially those involving former president Donald Trump.


    The Trump challenge starts Tuesday night, when the former president is expected to announce his presidential campaign for 2024. The media would be wise not to cover the news conference live, which will almost certainly include a host of election conspiracy theories.

    Indeed, as a general rule, the media must be especially clear whenever Trump lies (virtually every time he opens his mouth). They should continue to frame headlines to underscore when his statements are untrue.

    And while he might generate more clicks and attract more eyeballs, news outlets should not devote any more time or space to him than other top candidates. They dare not make the mistake as they did in 2016, when they acted as a free communications team.


    Beyond Trump, pollsters and reporters need to recognize that women aren’t a minority or interest group.

    They are the average voter. Forget diners as the locale for interviews with voters; go to yoga studios, school pickup lines, supermarkets and other places where ordinary women can be found. Find out what their concerns are and what candidate qualities turn them off.

    If they do this, maybe next time the media will not underestimate women’s disgust with right-wing politicians……

     
    In the weeks leading up to the US midterm elections, the message from Fox News was clear: violent crime is surging, cities are dangerous hellscapes and Democrats are responsible.

    With the vote over, however, the rightwing news channel appeared to decide things weren’t that bad after all, and decreased its coverage of violent crime by 50% compared with the pre-election average.

    Media Matters for America, a media watchdog, found that each week from Labor Day until the Friday before the Tuesday 8 November vote, the network averaged 141 segments on crime across weekdays. The blanket crime coverage matched the Republican party’s efforts to depict violent crime as out of control, and portray Democrats as responsible.

    In the week of the midterms, however, once voting was over, Fox News aired just 71 segments on violent crime, Media Matters reported.

    “I think this shows pretty clearly that the amount of Fox coverage of violent crime doesn’t really have anything to do with the level of violent crime in America – it has to do with the political benefits,” said Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters.

    “It crescendoed right before election day, and then once the election was over, so was America’s crime crisis no longer the subject of maximum concern that it had been in the previous weeks.”……..

    www.theguardian.com

    Crime coverage on Fox News halved once US midterms were over

    Just a week after elections, number of weekly segments focused on crime slashed in half on Rupert Murdoch’s flagship network
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     
    The failure of the media in regards to the midterm elections cannot be overstated. It was really bad. And aggregators like 538 were more guilty than most, because they should be able to separate bad polls from good polls yet they did not. Calls his professional status into question, IMO.

    This article is about a guy who saw, in real time, what was happening. He knew the elections would not be a “red wave” as should anyone who knew what they were doing. He thinks it’s possible that the glut of media stories about the supposed advantage that Rs had in the midterms could have possibly cost democrats the House.

    “When the polling averages narrowed in the fall, it was partially because partisan polls commissioned by Republican organizations were bringing them down for Democrats. Rosenberg was one of the first to identify the phenomenon, which he described as an “unprecedented campaign by Republicans to flood the polling averages in the final month to create this impression of the red wave.”

    If you were looking at polling averages that included Republican polls, “you were looking at a completely different election than we were looking at,” he added.

    When Rosenberg stripped out the partisan polling, he foresaw an election in which New Hampshire, Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania were leaning Democrat, Nevada was too close to call, and Ohio, North Carolina, and Wisconsin were leaning a little Republican. That’s consistent with what actually transpired.

    It’s not clear whether the onslaught of partisan polls represented a deliberate attempt by Republicans to change the narrative of the election and dampen Democratic enthusiasm. But it may have had an outsized effect on the averages this year because of a lack of public independent polling. As Politico pointed out, big players like NBC News didn’t commission any state midterm polls this year, and the New York Times only did so in four individual House races and five states — far fewer than the number they’ve previously commissioned.”

    www.vox.com

    The guy who got the midterms right explains what the media got wrong

    The media fell for a false "red wave" narrative.
    www.vox.com www.vox.com
     
    MT15 said:
    This guy, GG, is truly one hot mess. I swear some billionaire somewhere is paying him for his horrible takes on just about everything. He sounds like Tucker Carlson, 🤮


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    Dale could have easily posted his next tweet, but its obvious why he didn't.



     
    GG (and most of the right on social media) comport themselves like snarky jerkbags and then clutch their pearls when their snark is met in kind.

    GG is treated like a child because he acts like a child.
     
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    It looks like they took a page from Sinclair.

    Writers for a D.C.-based media operation run by prominent Democratic operatives are behind a sprawling network of ostensible local media outlets churning out Democrat-aligned news content in midterm battleground states, Axios has learned.

    Why it matters: Behind the patina of independent local news, these sites are pumping out content designed to put a sheen of original reporting on partisan messaging.

    • It's an increasingly common tactic among political outfits looking to give their team a steady stream of positive content they can then use to boost their own electoral communications.
    What's happening: A network of at least 51 locally branded news sites has popped up since last year under names like the Milwaukee Metro Times, the Mecklenburg Herald and the Tri-City Record.

    • The sites are focused on key swing states with elections in 2021 and 2022: Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
    • Each follows a similar template: aggregated local news content and short write-ups about local sports teams and attractions — interspersed with heavily slanted political news aimed at boosting Democratic midterm candidates and attacking Republican opponents.
    The intrigue: "About Us" pages for each of the sites say they're run by a company called Local Report Inc., which was formed in Florida last year.

    • Their mastheads indicate involvement by another entity: the American Independent, a Washington-based progressive news outfit.
    • Six American Independent writers have each contributed to most or all of the sites in the network, according to an Axios review of bylines on the sites.
    • While all of the sites aggregate content from other sources, all six of those authors regularly write stories directly for the Local Report network, with numerous articles appearing exclusively on those sites.
    The American Independent was launched by Democratic operative and fundraiser David Brock — also known for founding the left-leaning media watchdog Media Matters for America.

     
    SaintForLife said:
    It looks like they took a page from Sinclair.

    Writers for a D.C.-based media operation run by prominent Democratic operatives are behind a sprawling network of ostensible local media outlets churning out Democrat-aligned news content in midterm battleground states, Axios has learned.

    Why it matters: Behind the patina of independent local news, these sites are pumping out content designed to put a sheen of original reporting on partisan messaging.

    • It's an increasingly common tactic among political outfits looking to give their team a steady stream of positive content they can then use to boost their own electoral communications.
    What's happening: A network of at least 51 locally branded news sites has popped up since last year under names like the Milwaukee Metro Times, the Mecklenburg Herald and the Tri-City Record.

    • The sites are focused on key swing states with elections in 2021 and 2022: Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
    • Each follows a similar template: aggregated local news content and short write-ups about local sports teams and attractions — interspersed with heavily slanted political news aimed at boosting Democratic midterm candidates and attacking Republican opponents.
    The intrigue: "About Us" pages for each of the sites say they're run by a company called Local Report Inc., which was formed in Florida last year.

    • Their mastheads indicate involvement by another entity: the American Independent, a Washington-based progressive news outfit.
    • Six American Independent writers have each contributed to most or all of the sites in the network, according to an Axios review of bylines on the sites.
    • While all of the sites aggregate content from other sources, all six of those authors regularly write stories directly for the Local Report network, with numerous articles appearing exclusively on those sites.
    The American Independent was launched by Democratic operative and fundraiser David Brock — also known for founding the left-leaning media watchdog Media Matters for America.

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    I commend you for at least acknowledging the right-wing bias of Sinclair is a thing.
     
    SaintForLife said:
    Dale could have easily posted his next tweet, but its obvious why he didn't.



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    I saw the next tweet. And I never go to GG’s feed so I think it was included by Dale. It doesn’t make any difference. All this about elections being decided the day of the election is exceedingly stupid. Anyone who knows anything realizes the difference between the press ”calling” an election and the final results being certified.

    Vote by mail isn’t new and it’s not opaque. Those are just bald-faced lies by GG. Care to address that?

    GG is doing his Tucker Carlson impression here. “I’m just asking questions” while planting the seed of election fraud in his readers’ minds. It’s a despicable propaganda tactic.

    As for Democrats taking the Sinclair tactic - you don’t unilaterally disarm in a struggle for the preservation of our democracy. Rs are doing every shady thing they can do to retain power, even as their actual popularity with the people wanes. They’ve shown us what they are capable of with the schemes for fake electors. If Democrats don’t respond with every legal means they can, they’re not doing their job.
     
    MT15 said:
    GG is doing his Tucker Carlson impression here. “I’m just asking questions” while planting the seed of election fraud in his readers’ minds. It’s a despicable propaganda tactic.
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    Bingo. It's so cliched a technique I would assume any poster here could see through it. "I'm not saying there was election fraud... but it makes you think..." Lol. Please.
     

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