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Subject: Re: OT: Fox News, before and after the election...
Post by John DoePost by whit3rdPost by John LarkinJournalism is in a sad state. It's mostly advocacy, snark, fads
, and
Post by FlyguyPost by John DoePost by whit3rdPost by John Larkindishonesty. It's all about power.
Not a valid point.
But of course it is.
Post by whit3rdThere may be a lot of sloppy or sensational journalism-like ent
ities, but there's real news, too, if you exercise some selectivity and judgment.
Post by FlyguyPost by John DoeYou mean getting it from sources that feed your bias.
No, actually I mean news coverage that checks out against either pr
imary sources or at least a variety of others. Don't look for controversy, shun
Post by Flyguy'opinion' dramatics. And, discount any outlet that was wrong last y
ear, but didn't publish any retractions.
Post by FlyguyNonsense. The Washington Post is extremely partisan. It's part of the
Deep State.
Post by FlyguyJohn Doe is exposing his delusions again. The Washington Post is extrem
ely partisan from John Doe's extremely partisan point of view.
Post by FlyguyIt fails to take seriously all the nonsense that John Doe avidly accept
s - which does include believing that there's any kind of Deep State.
Post by FlyguyLook at from any remotely sane point of view, the Washington Post refle
cts a middle-of-the road consensus.
Post by FlyguyJohn Doe seems to share Cursitor Doom's enthusiasm for rabidly right-wi
ng conspiracy theories, and rejects any media that don't make their money out of serving this rather narrow market.
Post by FlyguyHey SL0WMAN, the WAPO is "middle of the road" ONLY to FAR LEFT socialists
such as yourself that believe crap like the only difference between boys and girls is a social convention.
As I said, looked at from any remotely sane point of view, the Washington Post reflects a middle-of-the road consensus.
Flyguy isn't remotely sane.
Post by FlyguyThe "media" is heavily biased towards Dems, the WAPO just even more so.
Actually, not as heavily biased against Democrats as lunatics like John Doe and Flyguy would like them to be.
Post by FlyguyThe bias is easily measured by, among other means, who these so-called re
porters donate to.
Post by FlyguyAfter all, if you give a candidate money you are showing your support in
a very meaningful way.
The reporters may have been generous in support of the Democrats. It's the people who own and control the newspapers that determine who the newspapers support.
Rupert Murdoch seems to love Republicans (or at least their money).
Post by Flyguyhttps://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Do_97_percent_of_journalist_donations_
go_to_Democrats
Since the Koch brother's astro-turfed the Republican party with the Tea Party Movement, there was really no need for anybody else to give them money.
This left the Republican Party in need of candidates who could appeal to anybody except rabidly right wing billioniares - a gap Donald Trump exploited when he became their candidate for president in 2016. The problem seems to have persisted.
Post by FlyguyNINETY SIX PERCENT supported Shrillary vs Trump.
As anybody sane would have done. Trump was a crook and a liar, and an obviously nasty piece of work. He lost the popular vote by some two million votes, but a certain amount of Russian propaganda in what turned out to be the three crucial states gave him the 80,000-odd votes that he needed to win the electoral college vote.
If he'd lost it's possible that many fewer American might have died of Covid-19. The US has lost 1,731 per million to Covid-19, so far. Taiwan has lost 0.4 per million.
Taiwan had an organisation devoted to looking out for early signs of an epidemic, and it reacted to the news about Covid-19 with early and effective action.
Obama and Biden has set up a similar group in the US to do the same job, and one of Trump's first acts was to dismantle it.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney