let us make up our minds. don t bend over backwards to be fair when you re not really telling us the truth when you say 200,000 jobs is sluggish on the one hand and on the other hand when it s, you know, it s trump, it s robust. that s wrong. well, you make several subtle points there, senator. one, as one paper that i read said, paraphrasing, the watergate model rewarded a type of investigative ruthlessness that shifted the model from watch dog to attack dog. and an attack dog against a proven criminal president like nixon might have been warranted for a period of time but approaching everything that way. you make that point. you also make the point about the false equivalency which may come from, not talking about everyone, you have to go evidence by evidence, but may come from some reporters feeling like the working of the rest by
our brand new cnn poll releasing right now shows a deepening biden slump. a majority of americans disapprove of his performance so far. the administration faces a variety of challenges and some americans are losing confidence. smash-and-grab robberies surging across the country. the whitehouse blames the crime spike on covid. instead of their own bad policy. this is a wave of negative coverage and it actually matters for several reasons that we ll get into. right off the top you can say, it certainly undercuts the frequent right wing claim that the main stream press is harder on republicans or trump than on democrats or biden. and there is a measurable shift from what may have been a honeymoon period where biden started off first getting better coverage than trump received. that was measured here. and then when you reveal out to the full year it dropped over the summer staying low. as biden over saw the afghanistan withdrawal, covid surges, and inflation.