The deeper structural factor is that the people who cover politics occupy a narrow ideological spectrum ("moderation") that is a thin slice of the actually existing American political spectrum. This leads to a lot of bad reporting and those moderates need to listen to critics.
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I suppose one man's provocative phrasing is another man's trolling. But the point stands: "moderation" in political reporting carries with it a set of blinders as much as any other ideological coloration.
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Yeah - I guess it's an open question if non-political reporters are much broader, but the political-journalism set is very insular.
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With Sanders, the big failure of 2016/post-2016 coverage was to cover him from a leftist intellectual perspective rather than digging into why so many conservative working class white people voted for him. Created a narrative that pushed folks in the wrong direction!
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That's fair -- although more broadly, there is a lot about the Sanders base that got missed because coverage focused on unrepresentative prominent media advocates.
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