Media Gaslighting Is Off the Chain

Sandra Wade
7 min readJul 20, 2024
Did these journalists see the same thing the rest of us saw at the RNC event?

It might be time to start protesting

As my readers know, I’ve been calling out the New York Times for its anti-Biden bias for a while now. Back in the spring, there was headline after headline about Biden’s age while they ignored Trump’s obvious decline that we could all see in his slurred, rambling rally speeches about Hannibal Lechter, electric boats, sharks, etc.

Back in March, three researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Computational Social Science Lab used their Media Bias Detector and scientifically proved what I was noticing about the Times:

CSSLabs’ conclusion was absolutely DAMNING:

“We believe that the choice of the Times to publish almost three times as many articles about Biden’s age as about Trump pulling the US out of NATO represents a clear example of biased coverage. In turn, this choice misinforms the NYTs millions of readers about the relative value of these topics and their underlying facts. Indeed, the 26 articles about Biden’s age are extremely light on underlying facts: nine are opinion pieces that restate facts…

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Sandra Wade

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