four times out of five, when someone says "why isn't the media covering X" it just means they didn't take 15 seconds to google it - ThreadSky

willoremus.com • 118 days ago

four times out of five, when someone says "why isn't the media covering X" it just means they didn't take 15 seconds to google it

Reposted from Jesús Rodríguez

This just isn't true. All of these are from months before the election, plus many, many examples from other outlets. And it wasn't just curiosity! It was accountability, skepticism, informing the public.

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liberalkmd.bsky.social•118 days ago

Dave isn’t reading wapo or NYT in his small town Midwest diner. Fox News is playing instead

s73v3r.bsky.social•118 days ago

How much promotion did these stories get, though? If the story is out there, but it gets buried under a bunch of “Biden old!” stories, it’s not unreasonable that it would be missed.

austinatl.bsky.social•117 days ago

I think when people say “the media” they mean the zeitgeist. Why didn’t it gain traction with the masses?

signalandnoise.bsky.social•117 days ago

Maybe, just maybe, there is a product market fit problem here. Writing a story that no one sees is just box checking. Is the promotion, the use of social media, the formats, the knowledge of the algorithm, sufficient to reach the audience? The job to do has changed and media hasn’t.

willoremus.com•118 days ago

either that or they're basing their view of "the media" on what they see in their social media feed, which tends to say more about their social media feed than it does about the media

catmolir.bsky.social•117 days ago

This can also take the form "Why is the media covering [legit story I'd prefer them to downplay] but not covering [things they have absolutely been covering]?"

Smart people who should know better were doing this a couple days ago with the Hunter pardon

andreaskonto.bsky.social•118 days ago

Publishing an article is one thing, but the impression of media coverage is also shaped by how that article is displayed in relation to everything else. The overall tone so to speak. And that was indeed favourable to Trump in almost every outlet.

umbrumray.bsky.social•117 days ago

I had had a feeling that news was covering the stuff more after the election.
But a feeling isn't fact.
Thanks for clearing it up.

scohoe.bsky.social•118 days ago

But is a few articles in print similar to spending weeks and weeks on tv talking about it like they did with other issues?

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