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| Tsalagi | Jan 27 2017, 01:44 PM Post #61 |
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I think your perceptions of the media are rooted in the belief they don't take anything at face value, that they tend to find the dirty skeletons of people we like for office. They're pit bulls and I'm sorry, they do follow a if it bleeds it leads mentality. Whether they're going after Lyndon Johnson for his escalation of Vietnam or Nixon for Watergate or Reagan for Iran-Contra. You color everything in political terms...left or right and everything falls on either side of that paradigm, sorry but you're wrong on the media. Rupert Murdoch would have something to say about that. |
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| PATruth | Jan 27 2017, 01:53 PM Post #62 |
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"News media bias is real. It reduces the quality of journalism, and it fosters distrust among readers and viewers. This is bad for democracy. Many prevailing biases exist in the U.S. news media. All news outlets are biased toward an eye-catching narrative. The Washington news media is biased toward Washington-based solutions. And the political press in the U.S. has an overwhelming leftward tilt, mostly on social issues, but also on economic matters. Conservatives aren’t imagining this bias. It’s evident in many ways, including personnel movement. For instance, Bill Keller, after years as a New York Times columnist taking largely liberal stands, became The Times' executive editor. " http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/11/11/why-has-trust-in-the-news-media-declined/liberal-news-media-bias-has-a-serious-effect From the NY Times, yes there is liberal bias and it's huge. |
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"No. No he won't. We'll stop it." | |
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| La Pasionaria | Jan 27 2017, 06:15 PM Post #63 |
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Twitter is alive with resistence emanating out of all manner of federal agencies: ACTION: call the committee of nat. resources to oppose #HR621. public lands need federal law enforcement! #resist https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YOGifkDdHtW3zpuUZOODzS7IaKSdgj4qln-QETjO1z8/ "It poses a dangerous question: What, when summer comes, are we going to do when forest fires inevitably happen?" http://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/articles/what-trumps-hiring-freeze-means-for-the-department-of-interior-w463163 … Pick up the phone and 👏🏽 CALL 👏🏽 YOUR 👏🏽 SENATORS 👏🏽 https://twitter.com/NRDC/status/825004820125904896 … Trump pressured National Parks chief for photos to prove 'media lied' about inauguration crowd. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/26/donald-trump-inauguration-crowd-size-national-parks-photos?CMP=twt_gu … Bill #2: H.R.622 - Terminates law enforcement functions of @forestservice + @BLMNational https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/622 … Under a recently passed House rule, new bill would sell off 3 million acres of public land. THIS IS NOT OK: http://bit.ly/2jkeb0G |
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| Tsalagi | Jan 27 2017, 06:56 PM Post #64 |
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If there is a bias, it's been cultivated for decades, up to WW2 the press was more or less wishy washy when it came to the government, and wholesale in the pocket of the government after WW2 in the belief the corruption of the government in the 50's under McCarthyism, and followed on in years to come with the culmination of the Watergate scandal put an end to that comfort zone of protection that the government and those they elected could do no wrong. Hence the media's duty of exposing corruption became the norm, that distrust of the Federal Government was healthy and in most cases duty bound....lead to sensationalized stories that guaranteed circulation. If it is a bias, it's one that was given birth to by actions of the Fed. There as a media source that at one time of course painted everything the government did as ok, even done in the best interest of the country, that source was Pravda,. |
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| La Pasionaria | Jan 27 2017, 09:19 PM Post #65 |
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Yeah baby, that's what we're talking about: As Trump administration muzzles Parks Service, unverified "alternative" Twitter accounts flourish http://cnn.it/2jFhHUk |
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