Greater Miami Shores wrote:Cannot think of a name wrote:I know charging this hill with you is...just a no, but I do want to address this misguided conceit for any passerby that might mistake it as a metric.
What's being displayed here as the supposed bias of Politico is it reported more bad things about Trump than it did about Biden.
Except here is a perfect example of why this is not the way you measure bias and any time you start doing it, snap a rubberband on your wrist until you break the habit.
These two events are about as apples to apples as you can get, a town hall where each candidate takes questions from undecided voters.
To support the premise of no bias presented by our friend who uses 'bias' like he was calling base in a game of tag, what politico would have to do is, say, find five bad things to say about Trump and five bad things to say about Biden.
Examining that principle for half a second and you understand that this unnatural imposition itself is making the news instead of reporting it.
It is an absolute fact, Trump refused to condemn Q-Anon. While he pretended to not know about their conspiracy theory he apparently was up to date on them hating pedophilia.
This is a fact. It is unquestionably newsworthy that the president won't condemn something of this nature. Not reporting that because Biden didn't do something of equivalent value because otherwise they'd be 'bias' against Trump is patently ridiculous.
The thing is, Biden gave dry, long responses and the only things worthy of a headline was that he slightly changed his answer on court packing to something he'll answer between the confirmation of Bennet and the election. That is a change, but still a dodge.
He gave a similarly convoluted answer on fracking.
Without hesitation he said the 1994 crime bill was a mistake and then detailed what parts didn't work and what parts he thought still did.
These are the newsworthy things in the Biden town hall.
By our friend's understanding of bias, this would then be the ceiling of things we could say about Trump. We couldn't talk about him defending Q-Anon, we couldn't talk about him continuing to equivocate on masks.
By changing the news so that you're only saying an equal amount of good things and bad things about both 'sides', you are no longer reporting the news. This is not the solution to bias.
Biden is not honest either, still refuses to answer the question on court Packing till after the election.
Yes I heard about how he implied he is against it.
Fact Politico's headline was anti Trump not anti Biden, not anti Both of them, it was and is anti Trump. Fair and Balanced would have been a Headline anti Trump and anti Biden.
I rest my case again,lol.
You haven't rested anything. The reason the headlines are more negative about Trump is cause he's worse than Biden.
