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If you could provide any basis for any of that, it would be valuable. Otherwise, it's just characters someone typed into a field on their web browser.

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leereeves 9y ago
As opposed to what? Characters someone typed into a corporate content management system? Which part do you dispute? The Pew Research center found that, excluding the right-wing media, only 5% of the media's coverage of Trump was positive. http://www.journalism.org/2017/10/02/covering-president-trump-in-a-polarized-media-environment/ http://www.journalism.org/2017/10/02/covering-president-trum... Edit: 6% of the centrist media's coverage, for those inclined to nitpick.
- forapurpose 9y ago
  > As opposed to what? Characters someone typed into a corporate content management system? I don't understand your point > Pew Research center found Some information at last! That's what I'm talking about. First, "excluding the right-wing media" is a pretty major omission. Excluding my right leg, I have no easy means of walking. The right-wing media is enormous, including the leading media companies in many segments (Fox, WSJ, talk radio, etc.). Second, reading the report, the number the parent quotes excludes both media with a right-wing audience and with a politically mixed audience (the report defines it by the political leanings of the audience, not of the news outlet); the number includes only media with a predominantly left-wing audience. Third, the parent comment implies that 95% was negative, omitting that 39% of the coverage, even in media for left-wing audience, was neutral. So here's the actual data, for media consumed by predominantly left-wing audiences: 5% positive, 39% neutral, 56% negative. When right-wing media lambasted Obama day and night for over 8 years, opposing everything he did, calling him everything from Kenyan to Communist, I don't recall such an uproar about coverage. And the left serve as his propaganda outlet either, the way Fox et al serve Republicans - the progressives didn't like him, and there is no Democratic propaganda front with major reach.
  - leereeves 9y ago
    > When right-wing media lambasted Obama day and night for over 8 years, opposing everything he did, calling him everything from Kenyan to Communist, I don't recall such an uproar about coverage. Because that's expected from the right-wing media, just like HuffPo is expected to hate Trump. The problem is that the "centrist" media is biased. Only 6% of their coverage is positive. > just characters someone typed into a field on their web browser Every post on Hacker News is just characters someone typed into a web browser. Every text post on the Internet is just characters someone typed into a text box. What was your point there?

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leereeves 9y ago

As opposed to what? Characters someone typed into a corporate content management system? Which part do you dispute? The Pew Research center found that, excluding the right-wing media, only 5% of the media's coverage of Trump was positive. http://www.journalism.org/2017/10/02/covering-president-trump-in-a-polarized-media-environment/ http://www.journalism.org/2017/10/02/covering-president-trum... Edit: 6% of the centrist media's coverage, for those inclined to nitpick.

forapurpose 9y ago
> As opposed to what? Characters someone typed into a corporate content management system? I don't understand your point > Pew Research center found Some information at last! That's what I'm talking about. First, "excluding the right-wing media" is a pretty major omission. Excluding my right leg, I have no easy means of walking. The right-wing media is enormous, including the leading media companies in many segments (Fox, WSJ, talk radio, etc.). Second, reading the report, the number the parent quotes excludes both media with a right-wing audience and with a politically mixed audience (the report defines it by the political leanings of the audience, not of the news outlet); the number includes only media with a predominantly left-wing audience. Third, the parent comment implies that 95% was negative, omitting that 39% of the coverage, even in media for left-wing audience, was neutral. So here's the actual data, for media consumed by predominantly left-wing audiences: 5% positive, 39% neutral, 56% negative. When right-wing media lambasted Obama day and night for over 8 years, opposing everything he did, calling him everything from Kenyan to Communist, I don't recall such an uproar about coverage. And the left serve as his propaganda outlet either, the way Fox et al serve Republicans - the progressives didn't like him, and there is no Democratic propaganda front with major reach.
- leereeves 9y ago
  > When right-wing media lambasted Obama day and night for over 8 years, opposing everything he did, calling him everything from Kenyan to Communist, I don't recall such an uproar about coverage. Because that's expected from the right-wing media, just like HuffPo is expected to hate Trump. The problem is that the "centrist" media is biased. Only 6% of their coverage is positive. > just characters someone typed into a field on their web browser Every post on Hacker News is just characters someone typed into a web browser. Every text post on the Internet is just characters someone typed into a text box. What was your point there?