Michelle Goldberg
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The media loves counterintuitive stories more than it loves ideologically convenient stories.
Hi there.
Thank you for being here.
So...
I'm going to try not to make this argument too America-centric, which I know can happen with American journalists.
But I do want to start by talking about an election that we just had in America and some of the things that the media got wrong in the run-up to that election.
There was an article on CNN, why the midterms are going to be great for Donald Trump.
Politico commissioned a poll
The poll came back showing that more people intended to vote for Democrats than Republicans.
Politico then wrote a story about how
Democrats were about to get trounced and dismissed its own poll as an outlier.
I bought into the red wave narrative because it was what the pollsters were saying.
It seemed to be what the people who I thought knew what they were doing were saying.
So I'm not standing up here and arguing that the media never gets anything wrong and that the media is full of human beings who are subject to all of the
frailties that human beings are subject to, right?
The media can be subject to groupthink, it can be subject to fads, absolutely.
What I want to argue is that the media doesn't get things wrong because of ideological capture.
It certainly didn't help the Democrats when the New York Times was reporting again and again that
that Republicans were going to sweep.
And in fact, it affected people's donation decisions, it affected their volunteering decisions.
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