Here's a good one. It was pointed out on some blog referred to in the "which blogs do you read" thread, but I can't be bothered to track down the reference now. Here are two articles from today: AP Poll: Bush, Kerry in Dead Heat Reuters Poll: Bush Grabs One-Point Lead on Kerry Can anyone point out the bias? Oh, all right, I'll save you the trouble. The headline of the article states that Bush has a one point lead, which is within the margin of error. The headline of the AP poll says "dead heat" but the actual numbers from the article are Kerry 49, Bush 46 -- also within the margin of error. However, someone scanning the headlines without reading the articles would think that Bush has an edge when in fact both polls are inconclusive.
Obviously the one-point lead headline refers to the three-day poll that was tied for the first two days and on the third, Bush rose from the dead....eeeeerrrrr...took a one-point lead. "Bush led Kerry 46-45 percent in the latest three-day tracking poll, a statistical dead heat well within the poll's margin of error. They were tied at 46 percent the previous two days."
It's not obvious to me. The bias is that a Bush lead within the margin of error is reported as a Bush lead, but a Kerry lead within the margin of error is reported as a tie. Statistically, they're both ties.
There are too many instances of this to site, but here goes. The GOPers are all confident. Fair enough. The media are reporting that. Fair enough. But where the media are falling down is in all of the repeated instances where they don't also mention that the polls show that Kerry's in at least an equal position. It's Rove's belief that undecideds break for the person they think is gonna win, so when the media do this, they're serving as megaphones for Karl.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politic...-justified-as-most-question-committee-report/ This is a poll showing how U.S. Americans feel about torture and such as. Here's the thing...the media have misled the American people, so of course Americans give screwy responses. GIGO. I'm curious how the 47% who are not wrong responded regarding whether the torture was justified.
804736270031167488 is not a valid tweet id Obama 365, McCain 173Trump 306, Clinton 232Obama 52.9% of popular voteTrump 46.4% of popular voteBut Obama had to reach out to the GOP pic.twitter.com/u0nREdTwrm— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 2, 2016
I'll say it: NYT interviewed Reid for this story. He said things contrary to the story. NYT discarded the interview. https://t.co/p39yXdu9Qq— Adam Jentleson (@AJentleson) December 10, 2016 I can't even....
company that signed 250K book deal w/ Milo, CBS, is the same one whose CEO said Trump's run was "damn good" for them https://t.co/MCd5UxZvM3— Adam Johnson (@adamjohnsonCHI) December 29, 2016 Milo Yiannopoulos inks $250K book deal with Simon & Schuster, a subsidiary of CBS: https://t.co/uY0W708QwL— Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) December 29, 2016 ..but, but liberal media
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/democrats-war-lets-compare-and-contrast-2009-and-2017 Conservative media bias in the NYT. This particular brand of conservative media bias is like asking a fish what it feels like to be wet. The media have been normalizing GOP intransigence and requiring the Dems to always be the adult in the relationship that this kind of thing never gets noticed. The post will read like Sanskrit to @JamieBmore and @bballshawn .