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I am not accusing you personally of this, but the tactic of continually accusing more and more mainstream publications of being left-leaning in order to make ro
by mbillie1 10y ago
I am not accusing you personally of this, but the tactic of continually accusing more and more mainstream publications of being left-leaning in order to make room for e.g. Breitbart / InfoWars is becoming increasingly common, and it's a wholly fallacious argument. All you need to do is push the boundary of the extreme right quite far along and all the sudden all ordinary news outlets lean "left" by comparison.
- talmand 10y agoTo be fair, the opposite is true as well.
- mbillie1 10y agoAbsolutely - it's less about left/right and more about "I can discredit reasonable sources as biased by recalibrating what bias means based on these extreme outliers"
- jazzyk 10y agoThere is wide-spread consensus that BBC, NPR and NYT are left leaning. But this is not about right/left anymore - the scary fact (and becoming patently obvious to more and more people) is the fact that all "mainstream" media is pro-establishment (whether it is left or right is less important). That's why outlets like Breitbart, warts and all, have been gaining so much popularity.
- gadders 10y agoI know there are extreme right-wing news outlets, but there are also moderate "sensible" ones as well - the Daily Telegraph and Spectator in the UK, even the Daily Mail. Breitbart isn't the anti-NYT, it's the anti-Daily Kos.