Before the interview, we discussed the latest number crunch study from NewsBusters senior research analyst Bill D’Agostino exposing how Abby Phillip, the host of CNN NewsNight (aka the Thunderdome) interrupted her conservative guests at a ratio of 127 to 3. You can read more about that here.
We began the unspooling with Holden by going over his relatively recent thread exposing how The Washington Post manipulated the sampling pool so they could get a poll that suggested 90 percent of D.C. residents thought their neighborhoods were safe. Holden walked us through his findings, such as the Post over sampling white respondents who live in nicer neighborhoods and making them the plurality of the sample.
Next, we pivoted to Holden’s evaluations of the liberal media breathless condemnations of the FBI raid at Bolton’s Maryland home. The headlines were full of pearl clutchy phrases like “revenge,” “retribution,” “payback,” “weaponization,” and “vendetta campaign.” But while the headlines roared, the truth was that the investigation started under President Biden and only whispered in the latter paragraphs of a New York Times article.
And to put a bow on the thread talk, we chatted about what goes into his epic threads and how he decides what to cover.
Enjoy!
