Jackie Calmes: Biden's polls aren't great. How much is the media's fault?
Long before Fox News co-opted the phrase "fair and balanced" as its slogan, American media was striving to meet that standard. Unlike Faux News, which has since dropped those words as well as just about any pretense of aspiring to them, the mainstream media still does aspire — to a fault.
That was the case in 2016 with the excessive coverage of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server for some State Department business, a performance that spawned numerous — and the meme The media, obsessed with seeming fair tobalance in harping on the matter was fair to her.
