Side-By-Side Comparison Of Media Covering Both Cruz And Biden Escaping Winter Storms

I just love side-by-side headline and article description comparisons. They are concise and their language carefully chosen to convey certain emotions or influence perceptions in a certain direction in case people don’t read the article itself. The whole story is never told in the headline or description, but comparing them is a reasonable approximation of comparing articles because they convey the intended message of the articles.

Today’s comparisons are about politicians escaping winter storms while the people they represent are left behind in terrible winter storm conditions. Remember when Texas got hit with that massive winter storm that devastated the power grid and overwhelmed infrastructure, and Ted Cruz hopped on a plane for a Cancun trip with his family? It was a planned trip and there really wasn’t much he could do in the immediate aftermath of the storm, but the optics were bad. It looked a lot like he was abandoning his state to enjoy a warm vacation because he had the means and opportunity to do so, while everyone else was left to fend for themselves after the storm.

And that’s pretty much exactly what Biden just did. As with Cruz, there’s really nothing he can do in the aftermath of the devastating winter storms and dangerously frigid temperatures devastating many areas of the country, including the greater New England area, and this trip was surely previously planned. But again, it’s the optics of the President of the United States heading off to sunny St. Croix with his family and leaving he country floundering in the aftermath of crippling winter weather.

But it’s not just the optics of it. It’s the media coverage of it. Check out the difference between the media coverage of Cruz leaving Texas after a devastating winter storm and Biden leaving New England after a devastating winter storm.

Also, how interesting that both CBS and AP used identical language, saying he is traveling “to a place very familiar to him.” When a person has dementia, location familiarity is extremely important for lucidity and cognitive functionality.