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David Rothkopf nails "laziness and distortion and bad analysis from the political media"
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1484169056173400068.htmlLet's say for a moment Biden's approval rating were impacted by an external factor (a new strain of COVID) beyond his control (nature) that is compounded by a GOP campaign to exacerbate its consequences...
...by inflation, driven largely by economic recovery creating demand supply chains are unable to respond to fast enough....
...and by right wing narratives that are amplified in the mainstream press (that has failed to adequately cover the successes of the administration...and if you don't believe me, read the one year wrap-ups were inundated with).
Oh, and it is also colored by the difficulty of achieving critical legislative goals when the opposition sees their sole mission as obstruction (and thus disatisfaction with the president is really misdirected frustration with them).
If all that is the case, the polling would be misleading right? Might not actually be communicating how the people feel about the president or how they would feel if his record were presented more fairly.
If the polls are thereby distorted, why are they so widely reported? (So, often without noting Biden is polling much better than his most recent predecessor, the man who helped create this hyper-polarized era of US politics that is different from what prior presidents faced.)
And why are the so often reported without noting that we are in the second inning of a nine-inning game and that the box score right now is fairly meaningless? Or noting that key factors driving the polls may well change over the course of the year ahead?
Look, I'm old enough to expect laziness and distortion and bad analysis from the political media. But a little more context would sure help the soundbite, Twitter length distillation of near-meaningless numbers into headlines, memes and conventional wisdom.
...by inflation, driven largely by economic recovery creating demand supply chains are unable to respond to fast enough....
...and by right wing narratives that are amplified in the mainstream press (that has failed to adequately cover the successes of the administration...and if you don't believe me, read the one year wrap-ups were inundated with).
Oh, and it is also colored by the difficulty of achieving critical legislative goals when the opposition sees their sole mission as obstruction (and thus disatisfaction with the president is really misdirected frustration with them).
If all that is the case, the polling would be misleading right? Might not actually be communicating how the people feel about the president or how they would feel if his record were presented more fairly.
If the polls are thereby distorted, why are they so widely reported? (So, often without noting Biden is polling much better than his most recent predecessor, the man who helped create this hyper-polarized era of US politics that is different from what prior presidents faced.)
And why are the so often reported without noting that we are in the second inning of a nine-inning game and that the box score right now is fairly meaningless? Or noting that key factors driving the polls may well change over the course of the year ahead?
Look, I'm old enough to expect laziness and distortion and bad analysis from the political media. But a little more context would sure help the soundbite, Twitter length distillation of near-meaningless numbers into headlines, memes and conventional wisdom.