I’m interested in your thoughts about the coverage of the midterm election. Specifically - how did you get the news? What networks or websites were you on? What did you think of the coverage? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
I feel like, despite all the flaws, cable news does a better deep dive into political coverage than networks do. That could be my own bias generally about cable vs network, in every area.
I wrote a whole thing before. Got erased. Here are bullet points:
1) Run up to the election I followed on twitter mostly - some media, some pollsters, some activists. Appreciated the data that flew in the face of traditional conventional wisdom, but the optimism of that data felt jinx-y to me. In the end, folks like Santiago Mayer and others were right - polling dependent on landlines and not cell phones seriously undercut the impact of the youth vote.
2) Watched MSNBC once I was done cowering behind HBOMAX and Hulu - waiting for the polls to close and SOME votes to be counted. Kournacki moments were interesting and data driven with some speculation. I appreciated the attention to detail and the acknowledgment - particularly from the women on the panel - that SCOTUS’s DOBBS decision was a driving and relevant force for this election.
Biggest takeaway is how continually crappy traditional media and polling is at pivoting to more accurate information gathering. Just because “that’s what it’s always meant” doesn’t mean it’s what it means NOW.
Not impressed, esp. w/ CBS News. A listicle of my hot takes:
-1- WTH, they only have like 10 news people to cover everything? Where did all the talent go?!?
-2- When does CBS keep using their morning news talent for lukewarm evening political coverage? There was zero value added by their presence.
-3- There are a LOT of talented, photogenic, smart, black reporters who actually cover politics as their beat. Gayle King is probably a very nice person, but she ain’t one of them. #ThereISaidIt
I feel like, despite all the flaws, cable news does a better deep dive into political coverage than networks do. That could be my own bias generally about cable vs network, in every area.
I wrote a whole thing before. Got erased. Here are bullet points:
1) Run up to the election I followed on twitter mostly - some media, some pollsters, some activists. Appreciated the data that flew in the face of traditional conventional wisdom, but the optimism of that data felt jinx-y to me. In the end, folks like Santiago Mayer and others were right - polling dependent on landlines and not cell phones seriously undercut the impact of the youth vote.
2) Watched MSNBC once I was done cowering behind HBOMAX and Hulu - waiting for the polls to close and SOME votes to be counted. Kournacki moments were interesting and data driven with some speculation. I appreciated the attention to detail and the acknowledgment - particularly from the women on the panel - that SCOTUS’s DOBBS decision was a driving and relevant force for this election.
Biggest takeaway is how continually crappy traditional media and polling is at pivoting to more accurate information gathering. Just because “that’s what it’s always meant” doesn’t mean it’s what it means NOW.
Not impressed, esp. w/ CBS News. A listicle of my hot takes:
-1- WTH, they only have like 10 news people to cover everything? Where did all the talent go?!?
-2- When does CBS keep using their morning news talent for lukewarm evening political coverage? There was zero value added by their presence.
-3- There are a LOT of talented, photogenic, smart, black reporters who actually cover politics as their beat. Gayle King is probably a very nice person, but she ain’t one of them. #ThereISaidIt