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Sounds like a serious condemnation of the media. My theory is that public opinion takes a long time to shift on these issues, and the media has been a fundamen
by theWatcher37 10y ago
Sounds like a serious condemnation of the media.
My theory is that public opinion takes a long time to shift on these issues, and the media has been a fundamentally dishonest and deceptive industry for so long it's hard to outdo them in such a short time.
- scholia 10y agoSounds like you're a source of fake news, or a victim of conservative media lies. The media nowadays covers a very wide spectrum from honest mainstream media (NYT, WP, BBC etc) to partizan sources that include a high proportion of lies (Fox News) to the totally dishonest and unreliable (Breitbart, Infowars etc). Mainstream media reporting based on trained journalists and subeditors, fact checkers and ombudsmen (who publish corrections) is not "fundamentally dishonest and deceptive", despite the efforts of liars like Trump to undermine it. The American tragedy is that a large proportion of the electorate has been corrupted by alt-right media lies to the point where people deny things that are provably, factually true. For an informed account of the problem, see: http://uk.businessinsider.com/conservative-media-trump-drudge-coulter-2016-8?op=1?r=US&IR=T http://uk.businessinsider.com/conservative-media-trump-drudg...