Portraying this election as a dead heat promotes panic clicks. It sells more advertising space and brings in more revenue. It generates traffic for influencers, which in turn sells more advertising space and brings in more revenue. It sells more books, more revenue. Understanding that panic and rage sell helps a lot to deal with all of the misinformation thrown in your face every second of every day.
Always ask yourself who profits from this.
Thanks for making this point. It's true... instead of informing us with the actual news... they're shaping it to be a "dead heat" and keep flooding the panic clicks.
This really exploded when trump got into politics. All of a sudden, lying, conning, exaggeration, manipulation and contrived "reporting" is happening everywhere. The social media wave is one of the most anti-social menace going.
@sirgeefive The people who keep funding all the candidate's political campaigns do. I don't mean the regular people like you and me, when we donate. I mean wealthy people and organizations and industry.
The people who buy our elections. The people who donate millions, not just to Republicans, but to the people meant to represent the rest of us.
People who prefer serfs to citizens in a functional democracy.
@sirgeefive the candidates via their fundraising. I've got hundreds of examples.
@sirgeefive Good reminder. Thanks.