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Right. Certainly there aren't any liberal blogs or "news" organizations that sensationalize headlines or downright make things up... It happens both ways and is

by pgm8705 10y ago

Right. Certainly there aren't any liberal blogs or "news" organizations that sensationalize headlines or downright make things up... It happens both ways and is unfortunate.

thrownaway2424 10y ago
Liberals do not maintain a cottage industry of complaining about the conservative conspiracy to suppress their viewpoints, whereas conservatives seemingly spend 100% of their time doing so. For example there are plenty of dead tree books like [1], extensive networks of people investigating Obama's place of birth, including the current American conservative leader and icon Donald Trump. Meanwhile there is a real, concrete conspiracy by conservatives to actively suppress the truth, especially in the area of climate science. It would be hard to not notice that the conservative PM of Canada actually banned scientists from speaking to the public, or that Republicans in the USA are constantly trying to defund NOAA and NASA, or that the Republican-controlled 104th Congress of the US forbid the NIH from studying gun violence, among many other examples. https://books.google.com/books?id=9iLHTFOQLGwC&pg=PA314&lpg=PA314&dq=liberal+conspiracy+to+suppress+the+news&source=bl&ots=zkkdBGIFoN&sig=NUhIAKLM9su9wu4ovdG33f7Dnx4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjj1oSfv83MAhUO9WMKHWhhBf8Q6AEIMzAE#v=onepage&q=liberal%20conspiracy%20to%20suppress%20the%20news&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=9iLHTFOQLGwC&pg=PA314&lpg=...
- marcoperaza 10y ago
  How about leftist anti-nuclear, anti-GMO, organic food pseudoscience? Nuclear power is the solution to fossil fuel emissions that doesn't require destroying our economy, but the left is the biggest obstacle to its development. Or how about the wage gap, which no serious economist actually thinks exists.
  - thrownaway2424 10y ago
    Advocating against something is not the same as suppressing advocacy of that thing.

by pgm8705 10y ago

Right. Certainly there aren't any liberal blogs or "news" organizations that sensationalize headlines or downright make things up... It happens both ways and is unfortunate.

thrownaway2424 10y ago

Liberals do not maintain a cottage industry of complaining about the conservative conspiracy to suppress their viewpoints, whereas conservatives seemingly spend 100% of their time doing so. For example there are plenty of dead tree books like [1], extensive networks of people investigating Obama's place of birth, including the current American conservative leader and icon Donald Trump. Meanwhile there is a real, concrete conspiracy by conservatives to actively suppress the truth, especially in the area of climate science. It would be hard to not notice that the conservative PM of Canada actually banned scientists from speaking to the public, or that Republicans in the USA are constantly trying to defund NOAA and NASA, or that the Republican-controlled 104th Congress of the US forbid the NIH from studying gun violence, among many other examples. https://books.google.com/books?id=9iLHTFOQLGwC&pg=PA314&lpg=PA314&dq=liberal+conspiracy+to+suppress+the+news&source=bl&ots=zkkdBGIFoN&sig=NUhIAKLM9su9wu4ovdG33f7Dnx4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjj1oSfv83MAhUO9WMKHWhhBf8Q6AEIMzAE#v=onepage&q=liberal%20conspiracy%20to%20suppress%20the%20news&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=9iLHTFOQLGwC&pg=PA314&lpg=...

marcoperaza 10y ago
How about leftist anti-nuclear, anti-GMO, organic food pseudoscience? Nuclear power is the solution to fossil fuel emissions that doesn't require destroying our economy, but the left is the biggest obstacle to its development. Or how about the wage gap, which no serious economist actually thinks exists.
- thrownaway2424 10y ago
  Advocating against something is not the same as suppressing advocacy of that thing.