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I clicked on this expecting to hear the reasoning behind this legislation explained in layman's terms. Instead I got another rant about the liberal media. I wis
by tboyd47 10y ago
I clicked on this expecting to hear the reasoning behind this legislation explained in layman's terms. Instead I got another rant about the liberal media. I wish we as a society could find a way past the issue of media bias. It pollutes every issue and makes public discourse a lost cause.
- barrkel 10y agoAll media is necessarily biased because it can't show everything. Ideally we'd weight what we consume by its truth value and build up a multi-dimensional picture of reality. We're living with a president who believes that reality is defined by what's on TV, and that by controlling the narrative, you can control what's perceived to be true. In this mindset, truth in media is irrelevant. What matters is the story the media tells, and if it's in your favour it's good, if it's not it's "biased". Since all media is biased, it's easy to tell the "bias" story; you just pick out the bits of the story that are missing, or overly stressed, or the tone, or whatever. It's an easy game to play.