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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Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias
it's not like the non-editorial and non-political-reporters at these news organizations are a representative sample of american political opinion
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Replying to @mattyglesias @MattZeitlin
The phrasing was meant to be provocative but the point is serious. The ideological horizon of people who do political reporting is very, very narrow compared to actual current politics. This has led to poor reporting of both Trumpist right & Sanders style left.
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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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