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" to help overcome the biases of the establishment mainstream media " Trump won BECAUSE of the biases of the establishment media. https://www.mediamatters.org/
by bomb199 9y ago
" to help overcome the biases of the establishment mainstream media "
Trump won BECAUSE of the biases of the establishment media. https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2016/11/04/study-top-newspapers-give-clinton-email-story-more-coverage-all-other-trump-stories/214309 https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2016/11/04/study-top-n...
Can find tons of studies on this, it's an interesting topic.
"I find his statements somewhat hypocritical given that the media, and government, has had the monopoly on irresponsibility, bias, putting forth alternative realities, and the Balkanisation of society, until just recently now that people are able to combat it and freely spread information among tens of millions of people instantly and so easily, instead of only getting their information from approved sources without citizens being able to freely discuss, disprove, etc. - e.g., directly from the White House, and a couple of privileged mainstream media organizations that are very in-bed with the government."
Look no further than the President on what social media is doing for understanding issues. Somewhere around 90% of his tweets are straight-up lies that people take as truth because he's the President.
- astrodust 9y agoSome people take it as the "truth" because he has power, nothing more. They're used to taking their talking points from their superiors, be those the ones in their religious hierarchy, their social circles, or their corporate environment. If the President said gravity didn't exist you can be certain Fox News would be explaining why to its viewers.
- bassman9000 9y agoIt's worth mentioning https://www.mediamatters.org/about https://www.mediamatters.org/about Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Can find tons of studies on this, it's an interesting topic. Please post. Edit: spelling.
- bomb199 9y agoHopefully Harvard isn't too progressive: https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/08/mediacloud https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/08/mediacloud