When discussing the Beltway Presidential coverage right now, this is a helpful way to look at it.
https://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/767726205688766464
John Stoeher talks about 'What is Hillary said this, What if Trump said it.'
Exactly. There are basically three different standards of a politician.
1. The Hillary Standard
2. The Trump Standard
3. The Normal Politician Standard.
Nate Silver had a pretty good way of looking at asymmetric coverage.
Let's invent a unit called the mitt, after Mitt Romney, which measures a candidate's scandalousness. Romney himself=1 mitt (pretty low)
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/775810075466182656
"Obama is/was also about 1 mitt. There are a few issues around the margin—e.g. Rezko. But overall, a pretty clean bill of health."
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/775810261420695552
On this scale, Hillary Clinton measures 5 mitts. Some stories are exaggerated. But there's a lot there! Much more than Romney or Obama.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/775810529986158594
"On this scale, Hillary Clinton measures 5 mitts. Some stories are exaggerated. But there's a lot there! Much more than Romney or Obama."
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/775811076210307073
"Clinton is in fact treated by media as a 5-mitt candidate. Sometimes the balance is off. But overall she deserves—and gets—much scrutiny. "
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/775811076210307073
I disagree with him that Hillary gets the coverage she deserves but I think his model has something to it.
"But Trump is a 50-mitt candidate! There's everything: corruption, racism, lying, fitness for office. Like nothing we've ever seen before."
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/775811299531907072
Trump gets harsh coverage. But it can't, or doesn't, fully scale up to his candidacy. He's treated as a 7 mitt when he's really a 50."
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/775811483657658368
I agree that it's kind of hard to vet Trump with so much problems. But it's about resources. There should be 50 investigative journalists studying each.
I disagree with Silver that Hillary gets the coverage she deserves. I believe there is a three tier standard.
The Normal Politician Standard. Now the kind of story that would maybe get the average politician 25 mitts gets Hillary 100 mitts and Trump 1 mitt.
So those are the tiers.
So imagine if Chelsea Clinton defended her mother not releasing any tax returns that he can't or every one would see it?
This was the initial CNN headline.
"This was a great headline. Looks like CNN changed it. "http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/donald-trump-taxes/ …
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/776423729324666881
The Hillary Standard means that if she had said this, CNN wouldn't have changed it. If anyone had changed it, this would be taken as proof that things are rigged in her favor.
https://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/767726205688766464
John Stoeher talks about 'What is Hillary said this, What if Trump said it.'
Exactly. There are basically three different standards of a politician.
1. The Hillary Standard
2. The Trump Standard
3. The Normal Politician Standard.
Nate Silver had a pretty good way of looking at asymmetric coverage.
Let's invent a unit called the mitt, after Mitt Romney, which measures a candidate's scandalousness. Romney himself=1 mitt (pretty low)
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/775810075466182656
"Obama is/was also about 1 mitt. There are a few issues around the margin—e.g. Rezko. But overall, a pretty clean bill of health."
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/775810261420695552
On this scale, Hillary Clinton measures 5 mitts. Some stories are exaggerated. But there's a lot there! Much more than Romney or Obama.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/775810529986158594
"On this scale, Hillary Clinton measures 5 mitts. Some stories are exaggerated. But there's a lot there! Much more than Romney or Obama."
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/775811076210307073
"Clinton is in fact treated by media as a 5-mitt candidate. Sometimes the balance is off. But overall she deserves—and gets—much scrutiny. "
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/775811076210307073
I disagree with him that Hillary gets the coverage she deserves but I think his model has something to it.
"But Trump is a 50-mitt candidate! There's everything: corruption, racism, lying, fitness for office. Like nothing we've ever seen before."
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/775811299531907072
Trump gets harsh coverage. But it can't, or doesn't, fully scale up to his candidacy. He's treated as a 7 mitt when he's really a 50."
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/775811483657658368
I agree that it's kind of hard to vet Trump with so much problems. But it's about resources. There should be 50 investigative journalists studying each.
I disagree with Silver that Hillary gets the coverage she deserves. I believe there is a three tier standard.
The Normal Politician Standard. Now the kind of story that would maybe get the average politician 25 mitts gets Hillary 100 mitts and Trump 1 mitt.
So those are the tiers.
So imagine if Chelsea Clinton defended her mother not releasing any tax returns that he can't or every one would see it?
This was the initial CNN headline.
"This was a great headline. Looks like CNN changed it. "http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/donald-trump-taxes/ …
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/776423729324666881
The Hillary Standard means that if she had said this, CNN wouldn't have changed it. If anyone had changed it, this would be taken as proof that things are rigged in her favor.
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