Deciphering the News About the U.S. Postal Service
Recent headlines have made big waves, and the ingredients for a mail-driven election calamity are present, yet the chef — Postmaster DeJoy — is insistent that calamity is not on the menu. While the prevailing notion on the right is that this is much ado about nothing, on the left, alarm bells continue to ring. For now, voters, like the USPS, are left to muddle through.
Was the Media Biased in its Covid-19 Coverage of Outbreaks in Red and Blue States?
A new Gallup/Knight Foundation poll shows that 73% of Americans think that bias in media coverage is a major problem. Indeed, a Bloomberg Opinion piece in early July lamented that California just wasn’t being criticized in the media the same way that Republican-run states such as Florida, Texas, and Arizona were. Though such a sentiment closely follows American’s expectations of the media, data suggests it isn’t actually true — at least not when it comes to media’s coverage of Covid-19 across different states.