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Media Bias by Omission: Bloomberg Doesn't Investigate Democratic Presidential Candidates
As of Nov. 2019, Bloomberg admits that it engages in bias by omission with a Lean Left bent. Mike Bloomberg, New York City mayor and founder of the financial software company that owns Bloomberg, officially entered the 2020 Democratic presidential race in Nov. 2019. According to a memo sent to editorial and research staff obtained by CNBC and verified by a Bloomberg spokesperson, Bloomberg News announced it would refrain from investigating Mayor Bloomberg and his Democratic rivals.
“We will continue our tradition of not investigating Mike (and his family and foundation ) and we will extend the same policy to his rivals in the Democratic primaries. We cannot treat Mike’s democratic competitors differently from him,” Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait said in the memo.
In Dec. 2019, President Donald Trump's campaign announced it would stop credentialing Bloomberg News reporters for rallies and other events until the outlet resumed investigating Democratic candidates.
Mike Bloomberg is founder and 89% shareholder in Bloomberg LP, the financial software company that owns Bloomberg News.
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Advancements in technology can play a defining role in how an election cycle plays out. Think of John F. Kennedy in 1960: Tanned and wearing makeup, he used the first-ever TV presidential debate to overcome a 6-point polling deficit against the pale and tired-looking Richard Nixon.
If you want a more modern example, consider Barack Obama’s harnessing of social media as a grassroots engine room to solicit millions of dollars in small donations. (Eight years later, Donald Trump would manipulate that same technology to sow division, hijacking the news cycle with every 140-character Twitter outburst.)