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2024: The Year the Media Lost

Posted on | December 21, 2024 | No Comments

The Gloat Zone is a great place to be. Whether it’s in football or politics, the aftermath of a big victory is an occasion for soaking in the feel-good endorphin bath, and laughing at the follies of your defeated opponent. Victory is always sweetest when it’s an upset, staging a fourth-quarter comeback after your opponent thinks he’s already got it in the bag. Fans of the New England Patriots get a smile on their face at the mere mention of “28-3,” the greatest Super Bowl comeback of all time.

Wishing to squeeze the last ounce of pleasure from this year’s victory, I’ve spent a lot of time watching highlights of Election Night coverage, and one particular moment stood out as Peak Media Bias:

Shortly before 8 p.m. Eastern time on Election Night on CBS News (America Decides: Election ’24), anchor Lindsey Reiser cut away to Philadelphia, where polls were just about to close in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania. CBS had good news for Democrats and Kamala Harris. “The Harris campaign says tonight that they are feeling confident,” CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang told the network’s viewers.
Early in the next hour, with Norah O’Donnnell now in the anchor chair, the network again cut away to Jiang in Philadelphia, where there was still more good news for Democrats. “I just heard from a [Harris] campaign source that says that they are overperforming the internal turnout expectations here in Philly and it continues to look very strong,” Jiang reported, later adding, “The Harris campaign ground game has been like a well-oiled machine.”
As we all now know, the Harris campaign was lying about the turnout and therefore the reporting by CBS News was completely wrong about Pennsylvania. . . .

Read the rest of my most recent American Spectator column.



 

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