"Conceptualizing democracy as a kind of niche issue that a free press should only prioritize in coverage according to how many people rate its importance in a poll is a huge tell about why the NYTimes’s current election coverage has been so myopic, timid, and consistently unable to meet the moment."
- Journalist Reed Richardson
"Biden’s age isn’t among voters’ top issues in polls, but the NY Times made it a recurring top story anyway Voters sure didn’t say they care about the president of Harvard, but the Times made that the number one story for days. When NYT editors care, they don’t defer to polls."
- University of Illinois professor Nicholas Grossman
@TheAbbotTrithemius there's much going on here, but I don't think that news organizations should pick stories based on polls.
And why would anyone care about the MSM polls anyway! 2016 should have been the proof that they are useless! They are poorly made, slanted to the Corp's benefit, not even polling the appropriate audiences!
In Nov. we just need to get our asses out of the house or whereever we are & vote, in person, absentee, electronically, by mail (get to the PO early), or however it's done where you are registered! Oh, and be sure to check your registration status!
We need an entire
" Maybe the most telling element of the interview is who Kahn picked as his interlocutor: A shmoozy former Times media critic whose interview style is sycophantic.
You know what would be nice? If Kahn sat down for an interview with a truly independent journalist. Why is he avoiding that? What is he afraid of?"
https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/