2024 Pre-Election Political Polls | POLL - Trump would have had 7 point lead over Biden

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HeelInTheOzarks said:
So instead of polls we are supposed to follow Jake Tapper’s vibes?
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The events of this campaign year have convinced me that a majority of the so-called news media in this country want Trump to win this election, including the fabled "mainstream liberal media" that conservatives so love to attack and see themselves as victims of. The NY Times, WaPo, CNN, etc. all seem to be bending over backwards to give Dear Leader almost every benefit of the doubt, bosiding everything to death, and practicing a definite double standard with Harris. And that's without mentioning all of the right-wing media that now exists in this country - Fox, OAN, Newsmax, most talk radio, all of the local TV stations owned by Sinclair media, Politico, realclearpolitics, the WaPo choosing a former Murdoch employee to manage the paper, and so on.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
The events of this campaign year have convinced me that a majority of the so-called news media in this country want Trump to win this election, including the fabled "mainstream liberal media" that conservatives so love to attack and see themselves as victims of. The NY Times, WaPo, CNN, etc. all seem to be bending over backwards to give Dear Leader almost every benefit of the doubt, bosiding everything to death, and practicing a definite double standard with Harris. And that's without mentioning all of the right-wing media that now exists in this country - Fox, OAN, Newsmax, most talk radio, all of the local TV stations owned by Sinclair media, Politico, realclearpolitics, the WaPo choosing a former Murdoch employee to manage the paper, and so on.
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Biden made the presidency boring again.
 
HeelInTheOzarks said:
Biden made the presidency boring again.
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Yep. Gotta keep those ratings and subscriptions and website hits up, even if the country and our democracy go down the tubes. There was an article earlier this year on how much of the East Coast legacy media, like the NY Times, simply doesn't believe that a second Trump term will be a threat to them personally, so they don't care.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Yep. Gotta keep those ratings and subscriptions and website hits up, even if the country and our democracy go down the tubes. There was an article earlier this year on how much of the East Coast legacy media, like the NY Times, simply doesn't believe that a second Trump term will be a threat to them personally, so they don't care.
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Yes. I started a thread on the old board about “When will the media quit Bo-siding? (and call out Trump)”

Basically saying that if the media keeps going the way they are, the Authoritarian dictator will make them State run, and there will be no more journalists per se. Just boot-lickers and those who fell out of windows or who were found mysteriously poisoned.

There is a cynical old man side of me that wants to see this happen to CNN, NYT, and the rest of the “legacy media” in a very Schadenfreude sort of way. Because my race is run and I really don’t give a rats ass anymore.
 
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Mulberry Heel said:
The events of this campaign year have convinced me that a majority of the so-called news media in this country want Trump to win this election, including the fabled "mainstream liberal media" that conservatives so love to attack and see themselves as victims of. The NY Times, WaPo, CNN, etc. all seem to be bending over backwards to give Dear Leader almost every benefit of the doubt, bosiding everything to death, and practicing a definite double standard with Harris. And that's without mentioning all of the right-wing media that now exists in this country - Fox, OAN, Newsmax, most talk radio, all of the local TV stations owned by Sinclair media, Politico, realclearpolitics, the WaPo choosing a former Murdoch employee to manage the paper, and so on.
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The media loves a tight race. Sort of like in the NCAA tournament when dook is playing SE Utah State, some commentator will try to hype the chances of SE Utah State pulling off the upset. Most people don't like a blowout (UNC wins, notwithstanding). The media is simply trying to keep people interested, IMHO.
 
TarHeelGrad said:
The media loves a tight race. Sort of like in the NCAA tournament when dook is playing SE Utah State, some commentator will try to hype the chances of SE Utah State pulling off the upset. Most people don't like a blowout (UNC wins, notwithstanding). The media is simply trying to keep people interested, IMHO.
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Perhaps, but SE Utah State isn't going to wreck our democracy or go after vulnerable groups of people if they win the game. I know the media loves a tight race, but that doesn't justify the endless bosiding, downplaying of GOP threats and rhetoric and actions, or articles in the Times like "Trump Can Win on Character." The reason the media wants a tight race is to keep up ratings and website hits, and that's why they also likely want Trump to win the race - if he wins he'll be great for ratings and subscriptions and website hits. As for the damage he might cause to the country and government they don't care.
 
aGDevil2k said:
The new york times is the worst for not reading the room
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Like with CNN and others... do you think it's also the ultimate "owners" of the print, broadcast and cable media outlets - who want to get clicks, sell ads or otherwise see their bottom line, their personal taxes reduced and their stock options increase in value? This along with feeding the fire and the frenzy of a horse-race and not a blowout. (Again, to gain clicks and sell ads, of course).

But in terms of "reading the room" - I think all of those media outlets are missing the main point: If they continue to bo-side and/or continue to bump up Trump, they run the risk of setting him back up in the White House. And if the tea leaves are telling us anything at all, that means an Authoritarian Dictator - a despot, criminal, mob style leader - who will gut the free press and turn it all into his personal, state-run media. Of course there will be some in power at certain media outlets (looking at you Sinclair) who will welcome this and will have no problem in sucking trump's d*** and/or bending over and allowing trump and his sycophants to run one up their collective backsides. But other media outlets (looking at you NYT) may not cotton to that sort of thing... and those are the folks who we will find mysteriously poisoned or otherwise falling out of open windows... or maybe, simply not found or heard from again - at all.
 
Centerpiece said:
Like with CNN and others... do you think it's also the ultimate "owners" of the print, broadcast and cable media outlets - who want to get clicks, sell ads or otherwise see their bottom line, their personal taxes reduced and their stock options increase in value? This along with feeding the fire and the frenzy of a horse-race and not a blowout. (Again, to gain clicks and sell ads, of course).

But in terms of "reading the room" - I think all of those media outlets are missing the main point: If they continue to bo-side and/or continue to bump up Trump, they run the risk of setting him back up in the White House. And if the tea leaves are telling us anything at all, that means an Authoritarian Dictator - a despot, criminal, mob style leader - who will gut the free press and turn it all into his personal, state-run media. Of course there will be some in power at certain media outlets (looking at you Sinclair) who will welcome this and will have no problem in sucking trump's d*** and/or bending over and allowing trump and his sycophants to run one up their collective backsides. But other media outlets (looking at you NYT) may not cotton to that sort of thing... and those are the folks who we will find mysteriously poisoned or otherwise falling out of open windows... or maybe, simply not found or heard from again - at all.
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You have quite the flair for the dramatic. Impressive.
 
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