Quote (Thor123422 @ Oct 28 2019 08:05pm)
There's a significant bias on the right-wing side economically. If we had a bias-free media they would have been calling out every politician and pundit for the past 20+ years on global warming, but instead we had a long period of "here's both sides", or sometimes outright refusing to cover stories because it was about an advertiser. Similarly even the most libertarian organizations estimate the total savings for a national healthcare system would be in the trillions over ten years compared to what we are paying now, but they consistently have stories about "how are we gonna pay for it!".
So the bias can go either way to a significant degree depending on the subject. There are a ton of issues that would have been settled decades ago with an objective media.
The establishment and normalcy bias is stronger than any "left-wing" bias, for sure. But these are nuances the right-wing can't understand. They can't step back from their emotions and think rationally.
Quote (cambovenzi @ Oct 28 2019 08:08pm)
So right-wing politicians don't have to 'pretend' MSM are biased, because they clearly are biased.
Recognizing that some of their journalism is pretty good (even though they have a severe bias and have countless fuckups and scandals) is a valid observation.
They aren't biased in the way(and/or to the extent) that Republican politicians pretend they are.
I just think it's dishonest from the right. They'll accept mainstream journalism as legitimate until it hurts the ideas they have or the leaders they revere.
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I just thought it was curious that you would post those things and later try to claim people are anti-intellectual for calling out biased media outlets.
Well, it's 9 years ago. And it's an appeal to the dopey notion that "one instance of the media being biased or incorrect means they all are". Media outlets change. I view Fox News as mostly propaganda, with CNN and MSNBC being much closer to reality.