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Jay Rosen Nov 23, 2022

True:

"Mainstream journalists, who are endlessly harangued for their alleged liberal bias, jump at opportunities to strut their evenhandedness, even when it backfires on them." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/22/midterms-mainstream-media-stand-by-red-wave/

That's from the Washington Post's media columnist, Erik Wemple:

What Wemple describes is a major factor. I've been writing about it for years. It helps explain yesterday's staggering "they both lie" tweet from Ashley Parker comparing Biden's mendacity to Trump's.

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News outlets stand by their midterm debacle

What do news organizations have to say about pre-election reports that painted a grim picture for Democrats?

The Washington Post

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Mary M. Redoutey Nov 23, 2022

@jayrosen_nyu It seems that with the deregulation of the media, the buy out of it, and the formation of monopolies by wealthy, mostly Republican, owners and corporations, any liberal media bias that once existed got tossed aside in the favor of Red reporting.
There is now the belief, sadly backed up by the lack of coverage of Democratic events and candidates and the over coverage of Trump. even when he was not running for office,

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Mary M. Redoutey

@jayrosen_nyu that the media is corporate mostly swinging Republican as it caters to the needs of advertisers and seeks lower taxes just as other corporations do.
The contamination of the news media with reporters who purposefully slant their coverage of the news adding their bad opinions of our President and Harris alleging dementia or purposefully not mentioning the good that they do rather than attempting to be fair and objective in their reporting really has a lot of Democrats steamed.