This is the non-spicy version of this take. But voters, other than maybe college-educated liberals, treat the media with a lot of suspicion. That makes it much less straightforward how the tenor of media coverage affects public opinion.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 15, 2023

I feel like this might be a little too kind to college educated liberals, many of whose believe that Maggie Haberman is America’s greatest threat.

— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) September 15, 2023

It's not meant to be a compliment!

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 16, 2023

I guess this is pedantic but it seems to me that almost everyone has some media that they love, and then “the media” (the New York Times?) which they hate.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 16, 2023

I guess I'm referring to the center-left mainstream media (aka the "Indigo Blob") which I *think* is how most voters interpret the term. Like when Republicans are asked about "the media", I don't think they assume the question refers to Fox and Newsmax. https://t.co/pt5nTd3n4H

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 16, 2023

I agree that by convention “the media” excludes the most popular cable network, the most important business newspaper, the majority of AM radio, the top performing sites on Facebook, etc but it’s a very strange convention.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 16, 2023

But I do think there's like a *real thing* that people are referring to and everybody more or less agrees what it is, even if "the media" isn't a particularly precise term for it.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 16, 2023