2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWaPo- SNL’s final pre-election take: Biting criticism of Donald Trump’s media coverage
The irony is that WaPo engages in a frequent Fox News response to criticism. It refers to polls showing that the public's opinions match its coverage, therefore the media's coverage is actually fair. It does not occur to this commentator that the media has pushed a false equivalency narrative such that people actually believe that Hillary's use of a private email server is somehow as troubling as any of the numerous scandals surrounding Trump whether it be his taxes, his sexual assaults, his racism, or his ties to Russia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/06/saturday-night-lives-final-pre-election-take-biting-criticism-of-donald-trumps-media-coverage/
This, of course, is a long-running theme of the campaign. Clinton's supporters have frequently argued that the media is obsessed with her email issue and that it has garnered entirely too much coverage, constantly overshadowing the controversial things that Trump has said.
For what it's worth, relatively few people seem to hold this view. A poll last week showed that 83 percent of likely voters think Clinton did something wrong with her email server, while 51 percent think she did something illegal.
In addition, as I wrote a couple of weeks ago, 43 percent of Americans think media coverage of Trump has been too negative, while just 11 percent say the same of Clinton. Just 17 percent of Democrats say the Clinton coverage has been too negative. Nearly as many Democrats, in fact, think coverage of Trump has been too negative 13 percent.
But this hasn't prevented a narrative from forming among top Clinton supporters and media watchdogs that Trump has gotten a pass and Clinton has been unfairly targeted for relatively minor or even nonexistent sins. And it's a claim that resurfaces every time the polls tighten.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Yeah, they "..think Hillary did something wrong.." because the gd media****** tell them that Over and Over and Over Again.
Like gd andrea Mitchell for one.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)it's what they "feel."
This paragraph takes on new meaning with the FBI proving what utter partisan thugs they are:
Read the rest here.
Cha
(297,655 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)So WHY do people think this, if not because the news media gave the impression that it was a big deal, day in and day out? Seems like the result of stupid media coverage to me.
JHan
(10,173 posts)They shape the narrative, just like they shaped the narrative last week that the investigation into Clinton's email use was "reopened" rather than just reporting that a review of emails was underway - there was even speculation of indictment and suspect leaks were given legitimacy and now today, nothing. So give.me.a.break.