I think the media is reporting Biden’s accomplishments accurately when they happen, however nobody is really interested. The news media (particularly on TV) thrives on controversy, conflict, and violence, even if they have to exaggerate. “If it bleeds, it leads”. Things working the way they ought to simply doesn’t drive attention.
I often joked during the 2020 election that Biden’s campaign should have been “Make Politics Boring Again”. Good governance shouldn’t make headlines. But there are some people who assume that if someone is out of the news, they must be irrelevant.
There’s been a LOT of times someone has said, on lemmy, “man I wish Biden would just do x” only to get responses of “Biden started the process of doing x several years ago, here’s the progress that’s been made, here’s the timeline for completion.”
It’s not that people don’t care, it’s that people literally don’t know.
Oh I do not mean to suggest that they make false statements, just that they have an enormous bias, well as you said, towards providing “focused” coverage in some areas but then virtually nothing else.
So now he is trying to make his case to the American people, and like I guess he is worried (title of the OP) that nobody will believe him, b/c if he did good stuff then surely they would have heard of it (except… that is not the case - he did the good stuff, but they did not hear about it, at least not from the common news media).
And even that is irrelevant in a large sense, b/c Trump is in the news daily lately - but like, somehow that is working for him!? This is where I sigh and wonder if we will even have so much as the farce of a democracy a couple years from now, b/c if that is our mantra - that whatever the news shows is “good”, while facts themselves are, if not “bad” then at least irrelevant? - then we deserve whatever we will have chosen for ourselves, at that time.
And yes, I know - “but they did…!” - and I am countering with “why didn’t we do…?”, like each individual state could implement some kind of ranked-choice voting? I don’t know if that would work for the Presidential election, but if it would help with the members that we send to Congress and the Senate, then while it would take some few years, we could really change things, in less than a decade. But instead, I guess we just… won’t?
Elections aren’t about gaining voters, they’re about getting yours to the polls. Trump constantly in the media fires up his base. Biden’s base doesn’t even like him yet.
As always, Dems are hoping that fear of what the other side would do if they won will drive its base to the polls. But as all the comments here show, I worry that that will not be the case.
e.g. people recall how Biden “slapped” the train workers - not so much forgetting as never even knowing in the first place that Biden stayed with the situation for months to help them get a good proportion of what they had asked for.
If facts do not matter so much to conservatives, who are in possession rather of “alternative facts” and then vote with their hearts rather than heads, so now too it seems that liberals are likewise receiving possibly a different set of “alternative facts”, and may also (e.g. the Gaza situation) vote with their hearts rather than heads.
I think the media is reporting Biden’s accomplishments accurately when they happen, however nobody is really interested. The news media (particularly on TV) thrives on controversy, conflict, and violence, even if they have to exaggerate. “If it bleeds, it leads”. Things working the way they ought to simply doesn’t drive attention.
I often joked during the 2020 election that Biden’s campaign should have been “Make Politics Boring Again”. Good governance shouldn’t make headlines. But there are some people who assume that if someone is out of the news, they must be irrelevant.
There’s been a LOT of times someone has said, on lemmy, “man I wish Biden would just do x” only to get responses of “Biden started the process of doing x several years ago, here’s the progress that’s been made, here’s the timeline for completion.”
It’s not that people don’t care, it’s that people literally don’t know.
Oh I do not mean to suggest that they make false statements, just that they have an enormous bias, well as you said, towards providing “focused” coverage in some areas but then virtually nothing else.
So now he is trying to make his case to the American people, and like I guess he is worried (title of the OP) that nobody will believe him, b/c if he did good stuff then surely they would have heard of it (except… that is not the case - he did the good stuff, but they did not hear about it, at least not from the common news media).
And even that is irrelevant in a large sense, b/c Trump is in the news daily lately - but like, somehow that is working for him!? This is where I sigh and wonder if we will even have so much as the farce of a democracy a couple years from now, b/c if that is our mantra - that whatever the news shows is “good”, while facts themselves are, if not “bad” then at least irrelevant? - then we deserve whatever we will have chosen for ourselves, at that time.
And yes, I know - “but they did…!” - and I am countering with “why didn’t we do…?”, like each individual state could implement some kind of ranked-choice voting? I don’t know if that would work for the Presidential election, but if it would help with the members that we send to Congress and the Senate, then while it would take some few years, we could really change things, in less than a decade. But instead, I guess we just… won’t?
Elections aren’t about gaining voters, they’re about getting yours to the polls. Trump constantly in the media fires up his base. Biden’s base doesn’t even like him yet.
As always, Dems are hoping that fear of what the other side would do if they won will drive its base to the polls. But as all the comments here show, I worry that that will not be the case.
e.g. people recall how Biden “slapped” the train workers - not so much forgetting as never even knowing in the first place that Biden stayed with the situation for months to help them get a good proportion of what they had asked for.
If facts do not matter so much to conservatives, who are in possession rather of “alternative facts” and then vote with their hearts rather than heads, so now too it seems that liberals are likewise receiving possibly a different set of “alternative facts”, and may also (e.g. the Gaza situation) vote with their hearts rather than heads.