• circularfish@beehaw.orgM
    28·
    4 months ago

    The problem as I see it is not that they have been critical of Biden, but that they are not ringing the alarm bells loudly enough over some of the batshit garbage Trump has been spewing recently. “Dictator on day one”, cutting off funding for schools that require vaccinations, etc.

    It is reminiscent of the “both sides” criticism moderates get — in an effort to provide even coverage, they are functionally giving the crazy and the corrupt a free pass.

  • JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee
    9·
    4 months ago

    Thanks for someone finally saying it!!! . . Like WTF?! Same with CNN although integrity left there upon the invention of the internet.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
      5·
      4 months ago

      Oooh

      That actually makes a lot of sense and makes me sad. They’ve been doing other weird stuff, and if it’s all of a piece and more of the same victimization to business interests that has been slowly eviscerating all of American journalism… yeah, yeah, that makes sense. 😢

  • eveninghere@beehaw.org
    3·
    4 months ago

    A favorite of poll skeptics is its sampling bias. How did the New York Times come up with a polling sample that included 36 percent rural voters when the 2020 proportion of rural voters was 19 percent? Somehow, the poll’s sample of female voters was equally skewed…

    Uh-huh.

    The poll found Trump winning the female vote by one percent, when Biden carried women in 2020 by 11 points.

    And Salon uses this as one support to argue that NYT skewed the statistics. It’s a strange article. I find unnecessary weak arguments here and there.

    “Err, I’d back up my opinion differently” was my reaction for the few minutes during the reading.