The media's barely restrained hostility towards us is a huge issue.
I feel like Harris, Biden, HRC, and Obama all did the things that traditionally should be enough to get headlines and media attention. That failed, increasingly so as we get closer to the present (mostly). The problem isn't so much in lack of effort but in lack of adjusti…
The media's barely restrained hostility towards us is a huge issue.
I feel like Harris, Biden, HRC, and Obama all did the things that traditionally should be enough to get headlines and media attention. That failed, increasingly so as we get closer to the present (mostly). The problem isn't so much in lack of effort but in lack of adjusting in the face of that lack of success.
Harris started to do more work on this, she went onto Fox, she went to more non-traditional media outlets. It didn't do enough for her but she certainly tried more of something new.
If the answer was easy and obvious it would have been solved by now, but I think part of the answer is something democrats are generally uncomfortable with: we need to adopt a media stance similar to republicans. Relentlessly on message, never admitting fault and never giving credit, no matter how obvious it is that credit is due or we have some fault. Take an adversarial stance with media outlets, call them out for being republican biased, call out anchors on air for their bullshit. Attacking a "liberal media" didn't bear fruit for republicans right away, but it slowly built up a sense of "forced neutrality" in media outlets that has been substantially to the advantage of conservatism.
Bring up the message we want every time there's an event. Force it to tie into the event. Biden has had some of the lowest unemployment in our history: he should have talked about it every chance he got, no matter what. People truly do start to believe what they hear, if they hear it enough times. Take advantage of that psychology.
I agree that we should 'work the refs' and always call them on their BS. I don't agree with taking an adversarial stance as the default. This looks whiny when Republicans do it, and only impresses people who they already have. It would look equally whiny if we started doing it. The most important thing is just to meet the audience where they are, even if it means going to outlets that aren't generally friendly to us.
Working the refs and calling them out on their BS is more or less how I would define an adversarial stance. Think we might more or less be on the same page, with me being a bit more aggressive on it but not as much more as initially assumed.
The media's barely restrained hostility towards us is a huge issue.
I feel like Harris, Biden, HRC, and Obama all did the things that traditionally should be enough to get headlines and media attention. That failed, increasingly so as we get closer to the present (mostly). The problem isn't so much in lack of effort but in lack of adjusting in the face of that lack of success.
Harris started to do more work on this, she went onto Fox, she went to more non-traditional media outlets. It didn't do enough for her but she certainly tried more of something new.
If the answer was easy and obvious it would have been solved by now, but I think part of the answer is something democrats are generally uncomfortable with: we need to adopt a media stance similar to republicans. Relentlessly on message, never admitting fault and never giving credit, no matter how obvious it is that credit is due or we have some fault. Take an adversarial stance with media outlets, call them out for being republican biased, call out anchors on air for their bullshit. Attacking a "liberal media" didn't bear fruit for republicans right away, but it slowly built up a sense of "forced neutrality" in media outlets that has been substantially to the advantage of conservatism.
Bring up the message we want every time there's an event. Force it to tie into the event. Biden has had some of the lowest unemployment in our history: he should have talked about it every chance he got, no matter what. People truly do start to believe what they hear, if they hear it enough times. Take advantage of that psychology.
I agree that we should 'work the refs' and always call them on their BS. I don't agree with taking an adversarial stance as the default. This looks whiny when Republicans do it, and only impresses people who they already have. It would look equally whiny if we started doing it. The most important thing is just to meet the audience where they are, even if it means going to outlets that aren't generally friendly to us.
Working the refs and calling them out on their BS is more or less how I would define an adversarial stance. Think we might more or less be on the same page, with me being a bit more aggressive on it but not as much more as initially assumed.