Media Bias

[Enhance]

4 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Question: if most of what you’re told isn’t reported, why is it important you’re told?

Yep you and teach hit the nail on the head, but really the biggest thing is relationship building and the benefits that come from that. Most of the times I would meet up with a source or contact for coffee or lunch, we might talk about specific things going on that I wanted to report on, but we would usually talk about our lives, challenges we face at work, why certain things happen that make both our lives difficult, etc.

 

That's probably a lot of what was happening with the story Devo shared. You wouldn't meet up with a high profile government employee for lunch in a public place to share government secrets. You'd probably do it just to get to know each other better and see how best you can help one another. That might include a lot of "off the record" details but those details may not be germane to a specific story.

[DevoHusker]

Thanks for your insight Enhance 

[BigRedBuster]

 

Well Mr. Beck.  The reason why people in Government don't fear the people is because of people like you who spread the propaganda that they want you to spread to get their base frothed up and supporting them.....instead of questioning them.

[DevoHusker]

 

 

[Scarlet]

 

[Born N Bled Red]

1 minute ago, Scarlet said:

 

 

Probably a potential witness in the case of Trump vs. American Democracy. - The only question is, did Putin call the hit on Trump's behalf, or did Trump's team call it himself? 

[nic]

More than just the media is listed in this poll, but they are in the bottom 5 of institutions we have confidence in. % of those who have high or a lot of confidence in the institution and how much it dropped since 2021

 

Newspapers 16% −5
The criminal justice system 14% -6

Big business 14% -4

Television news 11% -5

Congress 7% -5

 

https://news.gallup.com/poll/394283/confidence-institutions-down-average-new-low.aspx?

 

The top 5 for reference.

 

Small business 70% −2
The military 69% -5

The police 51% -6

The medical system 44% -6

The church or organized religion 37% -6

 

[BigRedBuster]

 

[nic]

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

 

[nic]

Interesting. Wonder how long she has a job.

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/ny-times-columnist-admits-wrong-about-trumps-supporters-says-russian-collusion-hoax

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/opinion/bret-stephens-trump-voters.html

 

"Trump’s appeal, according to Noonan, was largely to people she called ‘the unprotected.’ Their neighborhoods weren’t so safe and pleasant. Their schools weren’t so excellent. Their livelihoods weren’t so secure," he wrote. "Their experience of America was often one of cultural and economic decline, sometimes felt in the most personal of ways."

"It was an experience compounded by the insult of being treated as losers and racists —clinging, in Obama’s notorious 2008 phrase, to ‘guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them,'" Stephens wrote.

[Scarlet]

Bothsidesism doesn't really work when the disinformation is this systemic from the right-wing sources.

 

 

[ZRod]

1 hour ago, Scarlet said:

Bothsidesism doesn't really work when the disinformation is this systemic from the right-wing sources.

 

 

This was specifically called out by General Milley. He said Team Trump wanted to spin the narrative on Pence being in charge and requesting the Guard. I'm surprised there were text to Hannity communicating the plan.

[knapplc]

Conservatives love to bash the media as liberals and claim their reporting is biased, but they're only half right. 

 

It's been nearly 24 hours since TFG's mansion was raided. This is an obvious line of questions the press should be asking, but so far they continue to do as they've always done - treat the cheeto with kid gloves. 

 

Hold the guy accountable. Call for interviews. Call him out when he fails to produce the warrant.

 

 

[knapplc]

More bias. It's pretty extraordinary how TFG rails on the press, and they respond by by being super soft on the guy.