10 Reasons For The False Media Narrative of A "Tied Campaign"
The media narrative of a tied campaign is yet another sign of the rightwing bias of the Versailles media, but it is not a simple phenomena. In fact, it has many contributing elements, each of which, in turn, is a result of rightwing influence combined with press laziness of at least distinct kinds--intellectual laziness, the habit of not thinking things through, and ordinary laziness, the habit of simply not bothering to check things out.
While I'm certain to have missed something, I've compiled a list of contributing factors to "campaign is tied" narrative. This list is my attempt to show why this false narrative is so deeply embedded, and so impervious to facts.
Of course the real reason is the conservative Republican dominance of Versailles, the result of a virtually-unopposed 30-40 year Gramscian "culture war"/"war of position", that involves systematically taking over all the reality-defining cultural institutions they can get their hands on. But that long-term structural advantage has to be translated into various forms that directly impact campaign coverage. This is my attempt to map out the major ones as they appear to me now. The reasons appear on the flip.
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