Biden didn't need funding because he had every major news outlet supporting him from jump
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
not at all! media narrative about him was dire during/after IA and NH.
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Replying to @nberlat
Biden was never, ever treated more harshly by the media at any point in this campaign than PoC were
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @nberlat
Folks *did* essentially treat him as a dead race, though, at multiple points. The media never really liked* Biden as a candidate per se. * "liked" in journalism-ese, aka: "no novelty, no man-bites-dog, nothing we can drum up for controversy"
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like, Biden was treated as the imitation-vanilla-extract of a candidate that he is from basically the get-go, it's just that journalistic "favor" isn't necessarily, you know, positive.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @nberlat
"Reporting Biden is doing badly" does not equal "reporting that Biden is unelectable", which is what the billionaire-owned media did with the more progressive candidates, relentlessly
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @nberlat
I would personally say the big thing is more that the media constantly treated Biden as the Boring But Practical eat-your-broccoli candidate compared to the ritz and glamour of Warren and Sanders, who were simultaneously talked up and constantly undermined (1)
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by the news constantly treating them as incompetent and their plans as far-fetched dreams rather than Biden's supposed baseline competency. (2/2)
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The media was kind of desperate to NOT have Biden be the nominee in their endless search for novelty, it's the whole reason the Mayor Pete phenomenon even happened at all
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Like the whole attempt to make a conspiracy theory out of "Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropped to make Biden inevitable" ignores that if people in charge really wanted Biden to be inevitable we wouldn't have had Buttigieg and Klobuchar in the first place, especially Buttigieg
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It's also worth noting that when Buttigieg started he absolutely presented himself as a Bernie-style progressive and he only started flipping on that once people started calling him the frontrunner
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My point is less that the media was hellbent on Biden than that the media systemically annihilated every candidate who posed a threat to their billionaire owners and let their natural sexism and racism handle the rest
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both Sanders & Warren got a lot of good press, while Biden got a lot of bad press. Biden certainly wasn't called as the winner of most debates,which is a major way networks can shape reactions and support. I guess I'd need to see a study with actual numbers, but I don't buy this.
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