The press spent the last eight years lying about Donald Trump as part of a smear campaign the likes of which no politician has ever seen.
Trump’s re-election proved he emerged as the ultimate winner of this feud.
And Donald Trump demanded one apology that will make the media howl in outrage.
Trump demands The New York Times apologize for its biased reporting
Donald Trump has been relatively quiet during the transition period.
But that doesn’t mean Trump doesn’t have scores to settle.
Trump unloaded on a familiar target – The New York Times – in a post on Truth Social where he blasted the paper for biased coverage against him.
“Will the failing New York Times apologize to its readers for getting years of ‘Trump’ coverage so wrong? They write such phony ‘junk,’ knowing full well how incorrect it is, only meaning to demean,” Trump began.
Trump singled out anti-Trump Times reporter Maggie Haberman for being especially unfair in her slanted coverage of him.
“Magot Hagerman, a third-rate writer, and fourth-rate intellect, writes story after story, always terrible, and yet I almost never speak to her. They do no fact-checking because facts don’t matter to them. I don’t believe I’ve had a legitimately good story in the NYT for years, AND YET I WON, IN RECORD FASHION, THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN DECADES. WHERE IS THE APOLOGY?” Trump concluded.
Trump is right to demand an apology
The New York Times did spread misinformation to their readers.
Anyone who got their news about the election was woefully misinformed about the true state of play.
Five days before the election The Times published a story headlined, “Why the Right Thinks Trump Is Running Away With the Race.”
The thesis of the article was that GOP-aligned pollsters flooded the zone with fake surveys to manipulate betting markets and polling aggregators to make it seem like Trump was winning the race when in reality he was losing.
The Times quoted one of the Left’s beloved “experts” to claim Republican pollsters had created a narrative mind as opposed to media and university pollsters who supposedly wanted to get the right result.
“Republicans are clearly strategically putting polling into the information environment to try to create perceptions that Trump is stronger,” Center for Public Opinion at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell head, Joshua Dyck, told The Times. “Their incentive is not necessarily to get the answer right.”
The Times claimed left-wing election modelers such as The Times, 538.com, Split Ticket, and Nate Silver docked Republican pollsters in their models so their surveys wouldn’t negate polls showing Kamala Harris in the lead.
“The partisan polls do not appear to be having a significant impact on the polling averages calculated by news organizations, including The New York Times. That is because those groups do not treat all polls equally, and adjust their models to give less weight to surveys from pollsters without reliable track records or with links to a political party. Some polls are excluded from their averages entirely,” The Times reported.
The Times also attacked RealClearPolitics – the original polling aggregator – for not doing any weighting of polls and simply throwing GOP-aligned pollsters into the aggregate.
“Unlike its competitors, RealClearPolitics does not filter out low-quality polls, incorporating results from pollsters with a poor track record that other aggregators reject. It also does not weight its averages,” The Times also reported.
But the election modelers The Times cited who gimmicked their models to try and negate what they claimed were partisan polls that showed Trump winning were wrong.
The RealClearPolitics polling average – which showed Trump winning – was right.
The only people deluding themselves on the election outcome were the reporters, editors, and readers of The New York Times.
