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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Sure but it never took priority over their main objective of discrediting Warren and Sanders and even when it was at its worst they annihilated Castro for not completely prostrating themselves before him
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Castro was never really in the mix for a range of reasons, starting with much lower name ID and I think also because progressives decided they preferred going with old white people. which I think was probably a big strategic error.
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That could be said of a lot of candidates who floated on much easier and much longer purely on the strength of the media being enchanted by them
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I'm kind of on the fence between the idea that Yang was quashed because he's Asian or Yang stayed in much longer than he deserved because he has techbro cred I honestly think those two factors directly canceled out
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