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It seems obvious to me that there was massive bias in media towards Biden, and they all happily accepted the narrative that Biden would win in a landslide and dismissed anyone saying otherwise as know-nothings.

IMO that's tantamount to election interference, if there's near unanimous media coverage for the entire election season of inaccurate polling that assumes a landslide Biden victory.

I didn't vote for Biden or Trump, so I'm not really interested in defending either camp here. I just think the media and big tech are so demonstrably contemptible and partial.

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If the media should be giving equal status and weight to all the parties, what about the Libertarians and the Greens?

And the Communist and Constitution Parties.

> If the media should be giving equal status and weight to all the parties

I'm not saying they need to give them equal status, necessarily - I'm saying that the employees of these institutions exist in a bubble mostly cause of class&geographic reasons.

The point is that all of these positions "Biden will naturally win in a landslide per polling" are tacitly accepted and challenges are dismissed as hearsay.

There needs to be some challenge/discourse against the elite orthodoxy.

I didn't see any of the elite media saying "Biden will naturally win in a landslide per polling". They were saying that in 2016. In 2020 much more common was "the polls are showing a landslide, but I don't trust the polls completely any more".

If you are saying that the polls were deliberately biased, I disagree strongly. It's a really freaking hard job if only 1-3% of the people you try to poll don't hang up the phone on you. That the polling error was under 10% was incredible in that scenario.

The media is biased. The polls had an error. Two very different things.

> but I don't trust the polls completely any more

That certainly was not the case. There was a bit of shell-shocked fear about 4 more years of Trump, but they most certainly did not expect a nail-biter election where Republicans outperformed in most areas, whether it's the presidential election in states(and pretty darn close to 10% off in some places), the Senate, the House or state legislatures.

I think that would probably be great for the country. At least give them time proportional to their national vote share.

You are aware that significant of not over half of American media is fox and various right wing media? Over half of media landscape is that.

Conservative politics in America is simultaneously all-powerful and ever the victim.

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