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media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

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Mainstream media have had a subtle RWng bias & party status hierarchy for generations--treating GOP as the high status emperor party, Dems as the chambermaid party--catering to emperor, praising his new clothes/MOUs--& belittling the chambermaid party for even tiny or imaginary flaws.

“The implications of my reporting suggest that a distinct half of my readers are fundamentally bad people? No. No that can’t be true. What does that say about me and half of my friends?” bsky.app/profile/dmnd...

White, wealthy Real Americans coded by media as "working class" "Faith voters" too despite not going to church (But not most religious group: Black Americans) reporter on NPR admitted not using the word "racism" because racist Trump supporters looked like family back home! bsky.app/profile/orig...

“it’s a real problem for dems when Americans choose candidates they like and believe will do good things for them. why can’t they learn to be happy with empty promises like they used to”

“we have to protect the country and get back to learned helplessness on the part of our candidates and voters”

media when the left candidate wins a primary: the left candidate and their supporters must reach out to the right candidate and their supporters and heal the divide media when the right candidate wins a primary: the left candidate and their supporters must unequivocally support the right candidate

In the media’s defense, they think all of us are just curious lab rats and they’re worried about us breaching containment if the left wins.

It’s annoyingly lose-lose: either blue wins so they feel a need to hire/diner-seek red voters/whisperers to hear from the other side for a balanced view of the outparty, or blue loses & they need to hire/diner-seek red voters/whisperers to hear from the other side for a balanced view on the inparty.