Opinion: The most universal press bias is to exaggerate the importance of whatever is being reported. Don’t underestimate the role this played in Russiagate, writes holmanjenkins
The most universal press bias is to exaggerate the importance of whatever is being claimed or reported. Don’t underestimate the role this played in Russiagate. For CNN and MSNBC, the collusion story was a commercial godsend.
When you’re not thinking with your brain, you’re thinking with the brain of your milieu. Virtue signaling is almost a nondescriptive term if you ask any psychologist or, increasingly, an economist: People are intensely social animals. Everything we do is about display. This also played a role in the media...Attorney General William Barr says he believes that the Trump presidential campaign was spied on, and that he wants to make sure the subsequent investigation was "adequately predicated.
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