US presidential 2020: the media facing uncertainties

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Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

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40 min

The uncertainties of the results of the US presidential election were not without consequences for the media.

To discuss this, L'Atelier des Médias receives an official from a polling institute, an academic specializing in American conservative media and an AFP journalist in Washington.

Publicity

Mathieu Gallard 

is director of studies at Ipsos France.

He closely followed the 2020 US election and the battle for numbers it was and still is.

Are the polls really wrong about the voting intentions?

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Sébastien Mort

, lecturer at the University of Lorraine, member of Crem (Center for research on mediations), discusses the way in which the American conservative media and in particular FOX News manage the results of this election and the transition period complicated ahead.

He also evokes the positioning of the Sinclair Broadcasting Group and OAN (One America News Network), which has still not recognized the victory of Joe Biden.

Finally, Sébastien Mort explains that the polarization of American society results in two media bubbles which are bound to last.

Antoine Boyer

, journalist at Agence France-Presse, produced and embodied

AFP's

Twenty Twenty 

podcast

.

He recorded a

special episode

on election night that caused the excitement to be heard in AFP's Washington offices.

At the end of the program,

Mondoblog audio

features the Togolese blogger 

Djifa Nami

, who lives in the United States.

She invites us to relive the 2016 American presidential campaign by recounting the unexpected election of Donald Trump which left many voters in disbelief.

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