# President Joe Biden and the runup to the 2024 election

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 15, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384 "2021-11-15T14:54:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1071 "2024-03-08T20:39:06Z")

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> [@PhillyGuy](#):
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> > [@bordelond](#):
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> > Is it my imagination, or has the _New York Times_ been carrying A LOT of water for Biden’s opponent?
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> IMHO, imagination.
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> Media content analysis requires rigorous statistical methods. Absent that, objectivity is impossible. Problem is, we remember the articles we disagree with more than those we like.
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> Does there get to a point where you don’t need a quantitative methods PhD to realize a media outlet is pro-Republican or pro-Democratic? On the editorial page, yes. If cycle after cycle, they endorse the Republican, that’s a Republican paper. But straight news coverage is impossible to fairly categorize without running numbers .

I didn’t mean that the _NYT_ is a Republican paper. I meant that the _NYT_ has been carrying water for Biden’s general election opponent. Perhaps it’s better couched as chaos agency rather than partisanship. In any case, @Derleth posted the “QED” **[over in the State of the Union thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/139)**. I’ll repost a bit here:

> Of course, the _Times_ is going to beat the “Biden Old” drum for as long as it can [because its owner wants it to](https://presswatchers.org/2024/03/why-is-new-york-times-campaign-coverage-so-bad-because-thats-what-the-publisher-wants/)
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> > What does that mean — practically speaking — to the editors and reporters who work for him? In my view, the message is clear:
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> > One: You will earn my displeasure if you warn people too forcefully about the possible end to democracy at the hands of a deranged insurrectionist.
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> > And two: You prove your value to me by trolling our liberal readers.
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> [snip]
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> > We’re asking the Times to recognize that it isn’t living up to its own standards of truth-telling and independence when it obfuscates the stakes of the 2024 election, covers up for Trump’s derangement, and goes out of its way to make Biden look weak.
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> > Reporting that Trump is a racist fanatic who would turn a democratic government into his personal fiefdom is not crusading, it’s journalism.
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> > Reporting (endlessly) that Biden is old without noting that Trump is deranged is not “independent” journalism, it’s just bad journalism.

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