Weekend Report: What's going on?
The blame game in media begins, and it's ugly. No, it wasn't "the transgender ad." Why isn't the press looking at itself?
Since Tuesday night, we’ve seen a slew of articles, commentaries, and TV monologues in the corporate media laying the blame for Tuesday’s election on all manner of things. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats went too far to the left, some claimed, and didn’t court the center, while others criticized Harris for going too far to the right, campaigning with Liz Cheney. Is much of this finger-pointing actually valuable, or is it people covering their asses and infusing their own biases?…
One particular focus in the media I’ve seen, from the commentators on the right and the left, has been on blaming an ad that the Trump campaign spent millions of dollars on showing Harris from a years-old interview supporting gender-transition surgery for transgender prison inmates, which is medically necessary care for trans people and is current law. But the research has shown that the ad, run thousands of times to mostly male viewers watching televised sporting events, had no impact on the race. Yep, zero…
And why isn’t the corporate media looking at its own dismal coverage that affected how people viewed Donald Trump as well as the issues in the campaign?…
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