If the media should be giving equal status and weight to all the parties, what about the Libertarians and the Greens?
I'm not saying they need to give them equal status, necessarily - I'm saying that the employees of these institutions exist in a bubble mostly cause of class&geographic reasons.
The point is that all of these positions "Biden will naturally win in a landslide per polling" are tacitly accepted and challenges are dismissed as hearsay.
There needs to be some challenge/discourse against the elite orthodoxy.
If you are saying that the polls were deliberately biased, I disagree strongly. It's a really freaking hard job if only 1-3% of the people you try to poll don't hang up the phone on you. That the polling error was under 10% was incredible in that scenario.
The media is biased. The polls had an error. Two very different things.
That certainly was not the case. There was a bit of shell-shocked fear about 4 more years of Trump, but they most certainly did not expect a nail-biter election where Republicans outperformed in most areas, whether it's the presidential election in states(and pretty darn close to 10% off in some places), the Senate, the House or state legislatures.