With so much news swirling on so many platforms at a time like this 2024 presidential campaign cycle, finding out what matters can be just as difficult as responding to it. And Mina Kimes, who covers sports for ESPN after years covering business for Bloomberg, believes the media is often dead wrong about where and how people get their information.
Discussing the rise of music and dance memes around presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in an episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out released Friday, Kimes explained why X (formerly Twitter) and the New York Times are “over-emphasized” by the media and liberal people online.
“Something that has really frustrated me over the course of this election cycle and reading Twitter, which is a key note, is that there’s this very large, maybe just very vocal contingent of online liberal left who are just obsessed with the New York Times,” Kimes explained. “That strikes me as unbelievably wrong-headed, because I believe probably 99 percent of …