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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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
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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Did we watch the same media? Literally every single success Sanders or Warren had was diminished or qualified and any shred of acrimony between them was put on blast. Meanwhile anybody who was so much as curt to Biden on television got treated like they were Jared Lee Loughner
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might be different media. I pay more attention to print, where Sanders had a lot of cheerleaders. Again, though, Biden wasn't seen as winning any debates. that's a pretty straightforward measure of who's getting boosted, if anyone is.
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Replying to @nberlat @Nymphomachy and
and media narratives were especially down on biden after NH, just before he crushed sanders. so...I again, I don't think this is what happened.
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Yeah a ton of this is that when you're the frontrunner it's open season on you and people kind of irrationally just assumed Biden would never again be the frontrunner once other people took the spotlight I was certainly shocked by the outcome of SC and Super Tuesday
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
And I think I was shocked because of the media bubble, not in spite of it The whole reason there was a surprise is that the vast swathe of voters who were always for Biden are ones the media lost interest in pretty early last year
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
Like, the reason the media thought it was this three-way struggle between Warren, Sanders and Buttigieg is they were always more interested in young white people and older Black voters were never on their radar
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