Washington Post columnist says media spun for Democrats 'under threat of blowback' from left
Story by Hanna Panreck • 9h
Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle called out mainstream media bias in a column on Monday and accused the liberal press of hurting Democrats this election cycle.
"During this election cycle, I watched in astonishment as left-wing critics complained that the mainstream media was botching this election by ‘sanewashing’ Trump, failing in our duty to cover ‘not the odds, but the stakes’ and trading in false equivalence. I was not astonished that progressives wanted us to spend more time criticizing Trump and less time pointing out the flaws of Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. I was amazed because they were talking as if this might affect the election’s outcome," McArdle wrote.
As Democrats and liberal media figures continue to determine where Democrats went wrong after President-elect Trump was declared the winner, McArdle highlighted a Gallup poll that found 54% of Democrats said they had "high trust" in the media, compared to 27% of Independents and just 12% of Republicans.
"This was damaging for the news media that had already spent down the very reputational capital that progressive critics were begging us to use. But it was also bad for Democrats. By letting them win so many news cycles, we handed them a series of pyrrhic victories," she continued.
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