You’d think the leading voices in the media and among pollsters would have learned their lesson after being so off the mark in their coverage of Donald Trump.
They’re losing their grasp on both reality and their readers. But instead of correcting course, many of them are doubling down in the sanity.
Just last week we saw this in play in the pages of – where else? – The New York Times.
As if not content to let their November election night prediction that Hillary Clinton had a 92% chance of winning the presidency, the English-speaking world’s liberal paper of record reached a new low in overtly politicizing their sports section.
On Wednesday, the New England Patriots visited the White House for a ceremony with President Trump customarily held for Super Bowl champions. The Times posted online and to social media pictures, allegedly showing the turnout for the 2015 event with then-President Barack Obama and the 2017 turnout with Trump.
The 2015 picture shows people crowding around the president and then overflowing up the stairs of the White House. This year’s picture shows fewer people, with only a crowd around the president and nobody standing on the adjacent stairs. At face value, it appears that fewer people attended the ceremony with Trump. The Times was clearly implying that the Super Bowl champions disliked Trump compared to Obama....
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