Quote (fender @ Jun 13 2018 09:45am)
lol
Quote (Kuggergug @ Jun 13 2018 09:43am)
Its nothing like that.
What has happened over the past 50 years is slow loss of trust in media by republicans. In the 1950s, a majority of republicans trusted the press. After Nixon it fell under 50%. After the media turned against the Iraq invasion in 2003, it fell to around 30%. Then in 2016 with the media combining attacks against cops,, pushing for gay marriage and trying to divide men vs women against each other, it fell to 0%.
The mainstream press’ credibility fell to 0% among republicans. At that point, republicans are going to jump to whatever alt media they can find. Infowars / Breitbart / etc. just happened to exist at the correct moment in history. Its not about trying to prove CNN or NYT is more credible than infowars because that battle has already been lost. The people who now trust alt right sites do it because they feel Nixon was treated unfairly by the mainstream press, the iraq war got unfair press, the press pushes major pieces instead of reportig like a war on cops, and combined these things warrant a MAJOR change in media consumption. Even if that media is reporting things in error, as long as it is not utterly biased with such a liberal agenda it is worth the price to pay.
I'm not sure how many alt-right folks really think about any of that with maybe the exception of cops when choosing their kool-aid for the day
I guess maybe some older white people but I don't get the feeling from online or personal interactions that it's based in as much substance as you post
Being frustrated with msm doesn't require one to jump ship the the dark side where provable facts are so often denied and provable untruths so easily espoused