Coverage on this issue is shockingly bad in general --- especially on the numbers, which always fluctuate, including seasonally, and for reasons that are not always as clear or simple as they may seem. Aside from the round-up-the-usual-suspects human-interest stories, there's not much to help people think through this issue intelligently.
Coverage on this issue is shockingly bad in general --- especially on the numbers, which always fluctuate, including seasonally, and for reasons that are not always as clear or simple as they may seem. Aside from the round-up-the-usual-suspects human-interest stories, there's not much to help people think through this issue intelligently.
I wouldn't put this down to an anti-Biden media bias{*} --- these are different beats, and Biden's debate disaster was not just newsworthy but historic --- but to despair-inducingly inadequate reporting.
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{*} don't mean to put words in your mouth; adjust as needed
It is bias. Cries of "open borders" were flung around all year. Yet, substantial real reductions in borders interactions happened and it was crickets. Noone will ever convince me that omissions were anything but deliberate.
And drama. LetтАЩs not forget the DRAMA! Immigrant army crossing border. US under attack. Is always more dramatic than fentanyl supply drying up or immigration is down. By the way, as we all know, most of the fentanyl comes in by truck or even by US citizens loooking to make a quick buck.
Coverage on this issue is shockingly bad in general --- especially on the numbers, which always fluctuate, including seasonally, and for reasons that are not always as clear or simple as they may seem. Aside from the round-up-the-usual-suspects human-interest stories, there's not much to help people think through this issue intelligently.
I wouldn't put this down to an anti-Biden media bias{*} --- these are different beats, and Biden's debate disaster was not just newsworthy but historic --- but to despair-inducingly inadequate reporting.
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{*} don't mean to put words in your mouth; adjust as needed
Agree, Amanda.
Clicks. It's always about the clicks.
"Border Crossings Down!" - meh. . .
"Hordes of Immigrants!" - Wow! - what. . ?
It was ever thus. Before the internet, the watchword for local news broadcasts was "If it bleeds, it leads".
Dog bites man, not even on the back page.
Man bites dog, lead above the fold, page 1.
It is bias. Cries of "open borders" were flung around all year. Yet, substantial real reductions in borders interactions happened and it was crickets. Noone will ever convince me that omissions were anything but deliberate.
And drama. LetтАЩs not forget the DRAMA! Immigrant army crossing border. US under attack. Is always more dramatic than fentanyl supply drying up or immigration is down. By the way, as we all know, most of the fentanyl comes in by truck or even by US citizens loooking to make a quick buck.