{"id":1098478,"date":"2021-12-08T12:14:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098478"},"modified":"2021-12-08T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:14:25","slug":"absurd-cockamamie-complete-crap-analysts-destroy-claim-that-biden-gets-worse-media-treatment-than-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/absurd-cockamamie-complete-crap-analysts-destroy-claim-that-biden-gets-worse-media-treatment-than-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Absurd,\u2019 \u2018Cockamamie,\u2019 \u2018Complete Crap\u2019: Analysts Destroy Claim That Biden Gets Worse Media Treatment Than Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fabsurd-cockamamie-complete-crap-analysts-destroy-claim-that-biden-gets-worse-media-treatment-than-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098478&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Allegations that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/media-give-biden-more-negative-coverage-than-trump-the-washington-post\">media gave President Joe Biden more negative coverage than President Donald Trump<\/a> are based on a faulty computer algorithm that render the results \u201ccomplete crap,\u201d according to a left-of-center pollster.<\/p>\n<p>Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight analyzed a widely shared Washington Post story, which claims to present scientific evidence that the legacy media were harder on Biden from mid-July through late October than they were on President Trump over the same period in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal columnist Dana Milbank based his conclusions on an artificial intelligence program, which performed a \u201csentiment analysis\u201d of \u201cmore than 200,000 articles\u201d from 65 websites. He then accused journalists who criticized President Joe Biden of being \u201caccessories to the murder of democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Silver writes that the underlying algorithm was tainted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he @milbank WaPo article this weekend is complete crap,\u201d Silver <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NateSilver538\/status\/1467856792390668292\">tweeted<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, the algorithm rated a highly critical story from FiveThirtyEight \u201con Trump\/GOP efforts to undermine democracy\u201d as neutral toward the ex-president.<\/p>\n<p>The stories that the AI algorithm rated as most pro-Biden seemed \u201ctotally random,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMany have nothing to do with Biden at all (\u2018Haiti President Assassinated At Home, Wife Wounded\u2019).\u201d It appears positive or negative words about general events, like the Haitian president\u2019s assassination, were \u201ctaken completely out of context.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also wrote that more negative media coverage resulted from the president\u2019s slouching approval rating, which fell dramatically with the compounding problems of the president\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan, historic level of illegal immigration, and decades-high inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it reflects some sort of bias if Biden\u2019s approval rating drops 5 points and the news outlet writes about that, and the framing is mostly negative,\u201d Silver wrote.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To this good thread explaining why the &#8220;sentiment analysis&#8221; cited in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Milbank?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@milbank<\/a> WaPo article this weekend is complete crap\u2014the analysis was used to make the claim that the press is just negative toward Biden as Trump\u2014I&#8217;ll also add a couple of comments based on their data. 1\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V8pPJoM13p\">https:\/\/t.co\/V8pPJoM13p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NateSilver538\/status\/1467856792390668292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Designing good algorithms is hard, but this is an especially bad one. <\/p>\n<p>And as a news consumer, you should be extremely wary of statistical methodologies you don&#8217;t understand but that confirm your priors. 8\/8<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NateSilver538\/status\/1467856813727047684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Milbank\u2019s story made waves at CNN, which devoted two days of coverage to it. Brianna Keilar interviewed Milbank on Monday\u2019s \u201cNew Day,\u201d where he <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/nday\/date\/2021-12-06\/segment\/04\">admitted<\/a> that \u201cBiden\u2019s coverage was more favorable than Trump\u2019s before\u201d August. Yet his report should be considered \u201ca tremendous indictment of our whole industry,\u201d Milbank said. \u201cI think we really need to do some soul searching and think about what it is we\u2019re delivering to people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Keilar pointed out that the algorithm found that Milbank\u2019s employer, The Washington Post, treated Trump worse than Biden, Milbank replied that \u201cthe Post and CNN have done better than the average.\u201d Keilar mildly rebuffed the report, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s not the job of the reputable news outlets to compensate for, like, the crap that a Breitbart puts out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter also highlighted Milbank\u2019s column on Sunday\u2019s \u201cReliable Sources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume called Milbank\u2019s story \u201cabsurd,\u201d saying it had been concocted by a \u201ccockamamie\u201d artificial intelligence program,\u201d on Tuesday\u2019s episode of \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re nowhere near as tough as they were on Donald Trump, who was hated with a passion from the beginning of the election campaign in 2016 right through the end of his presidency and and through to today,\u201d Hume said.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, Trump received a historic level of media hostility for all four years of his administration. The \u201cBig Three\u201d networks\u2019 coverage of Trump skewed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/rich-noyes\/2020\/01\/13\/tvs-trump-news-three-fourths-impeachment-and-93-negative\">more than 90% negative<\/a>&nbsp;during the first impeachment \u201cpush\u201d, according to an analysis conducted by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mrc.org\/\">Media Research Center<\/a>. For instance, during the time in question \u2014 last June and July \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/rich-noyes\/2020\/08\/17\/study-150-times-more-negative-news-trump-biden\">95%<\/a>&nbsp;of legacy media statements about Trump were negative, while two-thirds of their statements about Biden were positive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDesigning good algorithms is hard, but this is an especially bad one,\u201d Silver concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/media-give-biden-more-negative-coverage-than-trump-the-washington-post\">Media Give Biden More Negative Coverage Than Trump: The Washington Post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allegations that the media gave President Joe Biden more negative coverage than President Donald Trump are based on a faulty computer algorithm that render the results \u201ccomplete crap,\u201d according to a left-of-center pollster.Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight analyzed a widely shared Washington Post story, which claims to present scientific evidence that the legacy media were harder on Biden from mid-July through late October than they were on President Trump over the same period in 2020.Liberal columnist Dana Milbank based his conclusions on an artificial intelligence program, which performed a \u201csentiment analysis\u201d of \u201cmore than 200,000 articles\u201d from 65 websites. He then accused journalists who criticized President Joe Biden of being \u201caccessories to the murder of democracy.\u201dBut Silver writes that the underlying algorithm was tainted.\u201c[T]he @milbank WaPo article this weekend is complete crap,\u201d Silver tweeted on Monday.For instance, the algorithm rated a highly critical story from FiveThirtyEight \u201con Trump\/GOP efforts to undermine democracy\u201d as neutral toward the ex-president.The stories that the AI algorithm rated as most pro-Biden seemed \u201ctotally random,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMany have nothing to do with Biden at all (\u2018Haiti President Assassinated At Home, Wife Wounded\u2019).\u201d It appears positive or negative words about general events, like the Haitian president\u2019s assassination, were \u201ctaken completely out of context.\u201dHe also wrote that more negative media coverage resulted from the president\u2019s slouching approval rating, which fell dramatically with the compounding problems of the president\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan, historic level of illegal immigration, and decades-high inflation.\u201cI don\u2019t think it reflects some sort of bias if Biden\u2019s approval rating drops 5 points and the news outlet writes about that, and the framing is mostly negative,\u201d Silver wrote.To this good thread explaining why the &#8220;sentiment analysis&#8221; cited in the @milbank WaPo article this weekend is complete crap\u2014the analysis was used to make the claim that the press is just negative toward Biden as Trump\u2014I&#8217;ll also add a couple of comments based on their data. 1\/ https:\/\/t.co\/V8pPJoM13p\u2014 Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) December 6, 2021Designing good algorithms is hard, but this is an especially bad one. And as a news consumer, you should be extremely wary of statistical methodologies you don&#8217;t understand but that confirm your priors. 8\/8\u2014 Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) December 6, 2021Milbank\u2019s story made waves at CNN, which devoted two days of coverage to it. Brianna Keilar interviewed Milbank on Monday\u2019s \u201cNew Day,\u201d where he admitted that \u201cBiden\u2019s coverage was more favorable than Trump\u2019s before\u201d August. Yet his report should be considered \u201ca tremendous indictment of our whole industry,\u201d Milbank said. \u201cI think we really need to do some soul searching and think about what it is we\u2019re delivering to people.\u201dAfter Keilar pointed out that the algorithm found that Milbank\u2019s employer, The Washington Post, treated Trump worse than Biden, Milbank replied that \u201cthe Post and CNN have done better than the average.\u201d Keilar mildly rebuffed the report, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s not the job of the reputable news outlets to compensate for, like, the crap that a Breitbart puts out.\u201dCNN\u2019s Brian Stelter also highlighted Milbank\u2019s column on Sunday\u2019s \u201cReliable Sources.\u201dFox News senior political analyst Brit Hume called Milbank\u2019s story \u201cabsurd,\u201d saying it had been concocted by a \u201ccockamamie\u201d artificial intelligence program,\u201d on Tuesday\u2019s episode of \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight.\u201d\u201cThey\u2019re nowhere near as tough as they were on Donald Trump, who was hated with a passion from the beginning of the election campaign in 2016 right through the end of his presidency and and through to today,\u201d Hume said.In reality, Trump received a historic level of media hostility for all four years of his administration. The \u201cBig Three\u201d networks\u2019 coverage of Trump skewed\u00a0more than 90% negative\u00a0during the first impeachment \u201cpush\u201d, according to an analysis conducted by the\u00a0Media Research Center. For instance, during the time in question \u2014 last June and July \u2014 95%\u00a0of legacy media statements about Trump were negative, while two-thirds of their statements about Biden were positive.\u201cDesigning good algorithms is hard, but this is an especially bad one,\u201d Silver concluded.Related: Media Give Biden More Negative Coverage Than Trump: The Washington PostThe views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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