If you want to know who's going to win, who's going to lose, what matters is in what advertisement

is going on the air. What matters is how many ballots are going to get invalidated.

Business as usual campaign coverage papers over this election's defining crisis.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield. Also on the show, there's no

missing the hysteria in the news and on social media about the

epidemic in child sex trafficking.

But there is no such epidemic.

Almost always in the actual details of these stories, you can find clues that this is not

the international sex trafficking ring that you have been promised in the headline.

And the Gamergate Playbook is the template for a coordinated attack on Netflix and an independent film on its platform.

Opponents of Quties have framed the conversation so that you either have to be pro-child pornography, which no one reasonable is, or anti-cuttings.

That was a masterstroke.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is out this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

With six weeks till Election Day, let's do the numbers.

This new poll out today shows Trump and Biden tied in the battleground state of Florida.

Since March, Joe Biden has held at least 83 virtual fundraisers.

The Trump campaign tells Politico it knocked on over one million doors in the past week alone.

Joe Biden's campaign says it knocked on zero doors.

A new CBS News battleground tracker poll shows the president trailing Biden in Minnesota, 50%

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