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> For example, a Republican in the US will perceive "liberal bias" in any story that doesn't present Republican politicians in a positive light, regardless of i

by drdeca 10y ago

> For example, a Republican in the US will perceive "liberal bias" in any story that doesn't present Republican politicians in a positive light, regardless of its veracity. I think this is a bit of an exaggeration. There are some Republicans who continue to criticize trump freely, after he won the nomination, even if some of these might still prefer him to Hillary Clinton. Though some republicans would probably interpret almost any criticism as bias. Did you mean most republicans or just at least some? Maybe you meant things that criticize republican politicians as a group? To me, that seems likely to be more true.

alansmitheebk 10y ago
I'm talking about the kind of Republicans that rail against "The Mainstream Media", which basically means anything that isn't Fox News, Brietbart, Rush Limbaugh, etc. These people literally think that all news is "liberal lies" unless it's coming from a rightwing source. Am I talking about most Republicans? That I don't know. I haven't conducted a poll to see how many Republicans have that mentality. Certainly anyone who supports trump or watches Fox News on a regular basis has that mentality --and that's a lot of people!
- ArkyBeagle 10y ago
  But that's just the galloping narcissism of our times.
  - alansmitheebk 10y ago
    Well, it's quite significant. How can we even talk about which news is objective when their is a large portion of the US population that consider rightwing pundits to be "the real news" and everything else to be lies? This is a major problem. We are living in a reality distortion field where George W. Bush has never been criticized for failing to protect us from 9/11 but people want to "lock her up!" [Hillary Clinton] because an embassy in Benghazi was attacked? I realize I'm going off topic here but sooner or later we have to confront this issue. Reality is not subjective. If our society can't learn how to parse reality we will never be able to unfuck ourselves.
    - ArkyBeagle 10y ago
      https://xkcd.com/258/ https://xkcd.com/258/

by drdeca 10y ago

alansmitheebk 10y ago

I'm talking about the kind of Republicans that rail against "The Mainstream Media", which basically means anything that isn't Fox News, Brietbart, Rush Limbaugh, etc. These people literally think that all news is "liberal lies" unless it's coming from a rightwing source. Am I talking about most Republicans? That I don't know. I haven't conducted a poll to see how many Republicans have that mentality. Certainly anyone who supports trump or watches Fox News on a regular basis has that mentality --and that's a lot of people!

ArkyBeagle 10y ago
But that's just the galloping narcissism of our times.
- alansmitheebk 10y ago
  Well, it's quite significant. How can we even talk about which news is objective when their is a large portion of the US population that consider rightwing pundits to be "the real news" and everything else to be lies? This is a major problem. We are living in a reality distortion field where George W. Bush has never been criticized for failing to protect us from 9/11 but people want to "lock her up!" [Hillary Clinton] because an embassy in Benghazi was attacked? I realize I'm going off topic here but sooner or later we have to confront this issue. Reality is not subjective. If our society can't learn how to parse reality we will never be able to unfuck ourselves.
  - ArkyBeagle 10y ago
    https://xkcd.com/258/ https://xkcd.com/258/