Oddbean new post about login | logout It's completely clear now that the New York Times has learned something from its relentless amplification of the Clinton emails story in 2016 -- a journalistic decision that helped put Trump in the White House. The Times has learned that its role is to do the same thing this time with Biden. Latest example: https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/083/091/012/522/314/original/b78de34534665989.png
@f8d9bc1c and those polls have been proven to be either done by tfg founders (the WSJ one) or sampling mostly republicans (CNN). Yet NYT has the chutzpah to write “poll after poll”. Now we know where the “Red Wave” in the last election came from!🙄
@f8d9bc1c pretty hard for publications to signal liberal if things go well! Much more profitable to get the wrong person into office and publish rage bait!
