RELENTLESS HAMMERING!
Posted on 08/26/2021 1:20:25 PM PDT by qam1
Over the last week, the media has hammered Joe Biden with relentlessly critical coverage of his pullout from Afghanistan, resulting in noticeable drops in his approval ratings. Put aside for a moment whether this reflects failures by Biden or biases by the media. One conclusion we can draw is that this sort of dynamic is a regular feature of Democratic presidencies, and — as the Trump administration showed — a near impossibility during Republican ones.
Well, sort of. The mainstream media certainly gave Trump harsh and even overtly hostile coverage. But the mainstream media only describes roughly half the media landscape. The other half of the media is a right-wing messaging apparatus that makes no effort to follow traditional journalistic norms. Republicans communicate to their base through a media that functionally operates as part of their party, while Democrats communicate to their base through a media that still exerts substantial independence. If you want to understand the strange difficulty that Joe Biden’s sane, competent administration has in yielding measurably higher approval than Trump’s insane, incompetent presidency, the asymmetrical relationship between the two parties and their respective media environments is the most important place to start.
Conservatives often gloat about the ratings dominance of right-wing infotainment:
And they’re right: Conservative media really does command enormous audiences that frequently dwarf its mainstream-news counterparts. But this merely underscores the fact that what we think of as “the media” only accounts for a portion of the American news media diet. The other half of the media is simply a vehicle for partisan propaganda. And whatever its failings, the last week has amply demonstrated once again that the nonconservative mainstream media is not that.....
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Just ask yourself how many feuds are the Press Secretary and the President having with the White House press corps on an ongoing basis?
Biden/Psaki has just the one with Doocy of Fox.
Trump had feuds with Acosta of CNN, the woman from PBS, and a bunch of others.
Really, I thought it smelled more like Houston on a hot day. LOL
Really, I thought it smelled more like Houston on a hot day. LOL
“...while Democrats communicate to their base through a media that still exerts substantial independence.”
Truth is, he's a low-rent David Corn.
Taint has probably generated more income for his apparatchiks, but he has always lacked the Jacobin Robespierre raw hatred for "The MAGA Other" that lurks behind every word Corn has ever typed.
RELENTLESS HAMMERING!
Jonathan Chait is a *****!
Near the ship channel the smell is similar, but it is industrial waste, not BS.
I lasted until the 3rd sentence.
Well that alone puts it in the twilight zone.
“the right doesn’t follow Traditional journalist norms”
That was my first big laugh
I’m an Okie. That ain’t right
The media is worse for Biden? No, the truth is worse for Biden and the media can’t hide enough of it to cover for him. The media was worse for Trump because of all of their lies by omission and lies about him.
“Joe Biden’s sane, competent administration”
He’s got a sane, competent administration? Where has he been hiding it?
This is the LEFT setting up a straw-man defense. SORRY, not buying this broken-down nag headed for the glue factory! The broadcast networks and their shows on cable plus their other fellow travelers on the LEFT-only roads has a dominating media presence! Mr Chait is pouring the kool-aid and hoping we drink it before we taste it!
Hey...Jonathan Chait...put down the shrooms, you’ve had enough.
They always said the media was harder on Obama than Bush too.
What an absolute *CROCK* that article is.
A +
Jonathan is full Chait.
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