lol, yeah, i think we're all losing IQ points.
Not sure I understand...Hilary's mishandling of her emails was covered a ton by everyone, are you saying the "liberal media" brushed it under the rug? and Biden got a ton of coverage because it was a legit news story: crappy polling for month and fourth-place finishes in early states, then a decisive win in South Carolina which changed the race, he suddenly had the momentum which led to significant wins in other states to follow. that's not bias, that just covering the results.
The propoganda model is the foundation to my understanding of media in capitalist democracies. There's all kinds of quibbles, but the basic thesis is sound IMO - that through a variety of systemic processes, liberal corporate media ultimately serves the interests of power.
So if we take that as our starting point we can look at other characteristics, one is obviously the pursuit of short term profit through narrativisation, particularly stark in the case of election campaigns where there is hysterical focus on 'the race' and coverage tends to exaggerate or diminish certain stories in order to propel this narrative and sell content.
So in the case of Hillary's emails. More or less a non-story, but pushed relentlessly by the likes of the NYT and supposedly liberal broadcast media, whilst at the same time diminishing the importance of the Trump Russia scandal which was far more relevant and serious.
With Biden and Sanders, the media treatment was disgraceful. Sanders recieved far more negative coverage throughout the campaign, his (effective) win in Iowa was carefully stage managed by the DNC in collusion with the media to strip him of momentum, Biden's gaffes were ignored or minimised and then we came to South Carolina. Going into the race, Biden had about a 20 point polling advantage. He exceeded this by about 8 points but he was always expected to win by a large margin, this was followed by breathless media 'comeback kid' coverage leading to super tuesday, which was boosted by the coordinated drop out of the other centrist opponents. The media narrative had a decisive impact on the race.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/02/joe-biden-south-carolina-primary/607285/ In contrast when Sanders had a blowout win in nevada he faced 3 times as much negative coverage.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/22...biden-media-spin-candidates-negative-mentions
This was a massive liberal propaganda campaign to remove a real threat to the status quo - and it was successful. Quite impressive in its outcome when you consider that Biden's closet is packed full of skeletons and he barely knows where he is at any given time. Unfortunately, the end result will most probably be utterly disastrous for the people of the US and the world.