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The mainstream media seem to judge the Democratic primary debate last night quite differently than the general public.
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I find this line from the essay to be laughably absurd, especially in the use of the word "afraid":
It is quite evident that the mainstream media do not like her anti-regime-change views and are afraid of even writing about them.
It's not a mistake, it reveals the "conspiracy theories are fun and magical" approach of the writer. (The big scary MSM, the MSM, the MSM that controls all the info. we see, the same one that is having a tough time staying alive these days.) Because of that, "B" would definitely not be my "go to" splainer about the problem described.
What doesn't "b" get about how any full-time journalist these days that doesn't have a trust fund has to go for ratings and clicks? If the hot numbers are truly there for Tulsi, they will switch to being all over her in a NY minute.
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 1:38pm
This is laughable. Those aren't polls of the general public. They're votes from people who read the article or the site. So among people who read Drudge or those who read nj.com who chose to vote in their survey Gabbard won. At least at nj.com they make it clear, " Vote in the informal, unscientific poll below." I thought we all knew that voting on on line polls is meaningless. This is the stupidest link you've ever posted here. It's pure partisan spin without value or meaning. Anyone with the slightest knowledge about how polls work would immediately discount it. Why didn't you?
by ocean-kat on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 1:54pm
The reporting I’ve seen says that the two most searched for names after the debate were Booker and Gabbard
https://qz.com/1653913/tulsi-gabbard-was-a-surprise-breakout-in-first-democratic-debate/
The WaPo carried the same story
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/27/who-were-viewers-googling-during-first-democratic-debate-booker-gabbard/?utm_term=.88079d1b0bb4
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 1:57pm
CNN: Tulsi Gabbard pushes anti-war message in first Democratic debate Updated 1:47 PM ET, Thu June 27, 2019
NYTimes, 17 hrs. ago: Tulsi Gabbard on Foreign Policy and War Ms. Gabbard, a congresswoman from Hawaii, has railed against “regime change wars” and warned of a nuclear arms race.
So much for this supposed MSM conspiracy.
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 2:14pm
How many of those searches come from Ivan and Boris and Natasha? Seriously, why are we basing anything on easily hackable/bottable systems?
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 3:35pm
Actually I am so cynical that political coverage is driven by ratings that I trust that there have been a significant number of real searches based on the fact that CNN produced an article on her after the debate. And I trust CNN editors to be able to sort out the bots, a least enough so that the advertisers believe the numbers, because: their livelihood depends on it. Though yeah, there's definitely a problem for advertisers in trusting data on that front too: non political bots been around longer than political ones. Heck, the spam comments that are occasionally posted here to affect cross-link traffic data, which you sometimes police, are an example...
But on the MSM political coverage, I think for a real long time it's been: give the people what they are asking for. Nearly the opposite of the conspiracy that Lulu and friends suspect. You know: POPULISM!
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 3:44pm
p.s. passionate ideology is exciting and interesting, someone like Liz Warren, on the other hand, not so much unless she ventures awkwardly into like Native American appropriation issues or some such...
Edit to fix linkby artappraiser on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 4:03pm
I have a personal story re: CNN - let's just say I doubt it tho nothing definitive.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 3:59pm
I also think the search results are reasonably accurate but we have no information why there was a spike in searches. Lulu wants to believe it's because of her isolationist views. A significant minority might be, Who's that hot girl running for president? I like AOC but she wouldn't be nearly as popular is she was an unattractive older women or even an unattractive man. A large part of her publicity comes from tv executives saying, Let's put that cute girl politician on our news program.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 4:09pm
by ocean-kat on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 4:39pm
Ok, so chalk one up for PP, you and I had it wrong this time.
But I really did agree with your comment about the sex appeal heavily influencing who gets covered in politics. Including on AOC. I've seen enough "LILTF" (leftie I'd like to fuck) kind of stuff on her on Twitter to back it up. It's not crass attention to looks alone, it's the whole package, she's got the "feisty firecracker" thing.
We have nearly the same exact thing in the art market, like 2 decades ago, Frida Kahlo suddenly gets a huge fan base (mostly female) and movies are made and more myth is made, including with dolls for little girls. And big money. When previously art history had judged her lover's art to be far more important.
One can take it all the way back to a totally different kind of sex appeal: JFK, Jackie and "camelot." My mother used to say "oh you have no idea what a breath of fresh air" after the dull awfulness of Eisenhower. After the telecast funeral/national mourning, she became Kennedy addicted her whole life, to the point where she was glued to the TV set for days the summer John-John's plane went missing. (Ratings!) Need I remind that he was the first TV debate president and Nixon the first TV debate loser, while the latter was judged as winning by those who listened on the radio.
Need I remind about women fainting at Obama 2008 primary appearances? Sarah Palin anyone?
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 6:17pm
P.S. I was actually thinking about the summer cable news ratings thing when I posted the news about Mueller testifying in July. I was remembering when traditionally, the cable news went off hard news and politics because people wouldn't watch that kind of thing in summer. They'd find a shark story to cover for days or a missing John John plane instead, to keep people tuning in. Now we got 24/7 all season politics but they probably feel they have to add a little "sex appeal" in summer? That's gonna be hard with Mueller.
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 6:24pm
The articles are only about the on line polls not the search results. These types of on line polls are not only easy to manipulate they're worthless even is not actively manipulated.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 6:47pm
Someone was comparing the Dalai Lama's response to a female Beeb interviewer (about a female Dalai Lama incarnate needing to be "attractive") with his complaint about Trump lacking "moral principles". i.e. a spiritual leader recognizing charisma & good looks is part of what we look for in a spiritual leader is equivalent to "grab 'em by the pussy" and Trump's numerous other moral shortcomings.
And yeah, would Frida or Che be that popular if they didn't exhude youthful beauty and energy? (having Selma Hayek play you especially with nicely lusty lesbian scenes certainly doesn't hurt your brand).
We all want to feel that thrill up our leg, whether we admit it or not. Ross Perot if he hadn't looked like a toad would've likely become president. Okay, perhaps tinfoil hat/black helicopters would've still done him in, but think a more Howard Hughesey version for a newer generation.
"A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him." - Mae West
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 06/28/2019 - 7:57am
I'm sure it helps that Gurumayi is pretty. But Ammachi does pretty well with her hugging gig and she's not very attractive.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 06/28/2019 - 8:55pm
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 06/28/2019 - 4:55pm
looks like emptywheel had to take that tweet down, wonder if that was because of pressure from Gabbard's people?
Anyhew, I was just going to say that Tulsi probably gets all the info. that she feels she needs on topic from Glenn Greenwald and similar.
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/28/2019 - 7:14pm