I’m not a big conspiracy theorist, in spite of playing one here on ibc from time to time. Often times, I’m merely amused by things and want to discuss them, only to later regret it after seeing drivel in the comments section. I don’t believe all the polls are fake and would hate to believe every single person at the Washington Post is a bad person, but it’s true.
An old hobby of mine is perusing old newspapers. I collect them and enjoy reading how stupid everyone else was, with the benefit of hindsight.
For example, 36 years ago, to the day, Gallup polls shows Carter up 8 on Reagan.
Even worse than that, on the eve of what would turn out to be the biggest landslide victory in modern America history, the scoundrels and dogs at Washpo showed Carter with a lead, in one of their little polls.
Dated 1984
Washpo is an organization of very low standards, who employs all of the worst students from all of the very worst schools of journalism in America.
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First thought was how many journalism students does the Washington Post hire these days? They might be more interested in students of media, of the social variety.
Media has always chased the youngest demo. Maybe it’s just me, but this seems to be nearly the only focus these days.
The polls are rigged the wrong way for the whales to catch the market wrong-footed and cash in big-time.
The smart money is positioning for a Trump win and betting accordingly.
You are generalizing. Pentagon Papers and NSA spying were both published by the Washington Post. That is a newspaper doing its job.
Careful. Bezos might cancel your wife’s Amazon Prime because of your characterization of his $250 million media “jewel”.
It’s not just the Carter/Reagan embarrassment to the press. Here in fly-over country it is well known that that bastion of reportage, the Kansas City Star, had already printed its front page – “Dewey beats Truman”. The Star was still being embarrassed by that little error about 30 years later when I was finally old enough to see it and read. Moral – Media bias is certainly nothing new. Annoying yes. New, not so much.