![It's our job to cover the full range of issues that people have. At the moment, democracy is one of them. But it's not the top one - immigration happens to be the top [of polls], and the economy and inflation is the second. Should we stop covering those things because they're favorable to Trump and minimize them? I don't even know how it's supposed to work in the view of Dan Pfeiffer or the White House. We become an instrument of the Biden campaign? We turn ourselves into Xinhua News Agency or Pravda and put out a stream of stuff that's very, very favorable to them and only write negative stories about the other side? And that would accomplish - what?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ovyajbnegrir2ddtwfhijiob/bafkreib7yetowvwntkb3idl7dwaqjegqgcsfjhx4hxqxqkx775wjtv7ua4@jpeg)
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It is to Fox.
Israel ranks quite low in these “voters’ perceived importance to them” poll questions, and uh I don’t think that is or should dictate coverage In the April Harvard-CAPS poll, only 7% of respondents put Israel in their top three issues harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/u...
REPUBLICANS: We don't care about democracy, we want a dictator who will deport the immigrants poisoning our nation's blood POLLS: "Democracy" 📉, "Border Crisis" 📈 NYT LEADERSHIP: I guess we should stop covering democracy and run more stories about the immigrants poisoning our nation's blood
Wait why is semaphor providing a platform to NYT editorial. Like if they want to say something they have a place to say it. (I know why)
Something particularly absurd about the NYT, which still has immense power to drive broader media narratives, pointing to polls (even setting aside misinterpretation) as if they're some exogenous factor they have no influence over and must simply follow. Like, what a dim view of their own effect.