Quando 208 jornais apoiam John Kerry e apenas 188 o fazem para George W. Bush mas este ganha as eleições, não é um sinal do desfasamento entre jornalistas e leitores?
É uma pequena minoria nos mais de 1200 jornais nos Estados Unidos, eu sei, mas mesmo assim dá que pensar a alguns autores:
Media missteps: Here's a thought for downcast Democrats trying to figure out why things went so right for President Bush: Stop listening to your own press. [...]
By any standard, the elite media's performance has been shocking. With Mr. Bush back in office, will it now learn from its mistakes? Probably not, but the Democrats should.
Exit Polls Bring Traffic Deluge, Scrutiny to Blogs, Slate: Slate, the Drudge Report and political bloggers ran early exit poll numbers on Election Day, only to see their sites inundated with traffic from curious readers. But did the trumpeting of these pro-Kerry numbers -- even with caveats -- hurt their credibility in the long run?
To Slog or to Blog: Is the Future of Media in the Blog?: Although the major media occasionally would remind you that the election was to be decided by electoral votes, articles like the daily one published by Reuters, for instance, focused primarily on national poll percentages. Electoral-vote.com, however, got down and dirty in the details and the numbers that were really going to matter on election day.
