Reading a story about the election that casually referred to "Biden's slide in the polls" and it just remains remarkable to me that narrative reporters can just drop stuff like that into copy and never think twice about whether it has any basis in fact.

Isn't it... actually true, though?

Thank you for saying this. It is so common. Not just about this topic. It has forever bothered me that papers often write that, “xyz is a growing problem” without ever noting evidence that said problem is actually growing.

It's pretty much exactly like how in 2022/23 the press kept writing as if a recession were imminent and grew increasingly frustrated as it failed to actually arrive

They're "getting ahead" of the scoop, by creating the scoop

They are doing all they can to will it into being. They have become newsmakers, not reporters.

Lol is it that Atlantic article?

Also throwaway remarks about continued high inflation

I would love to see someone make a purely numbers argument for who Won The Debate.

!remindme 118 days