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triceratops 7y ago
> Mainstream media says "Republicans bad," You mean apart from the highest-rated cable channel, the largest TV station operator[2], and the second-largest daily newspaper, in the US?[3][4] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News#Ratings_and_reception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News#Ratings_and_reception 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#2018_journalistic_responsibility_promos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#2018_... 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_States#By_circulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Unit... 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal#Political_stance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal#Politi...
- weiming 7y ago
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  - StudentStuff 7y ago
    Sounds like you live in a bubble
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- manfredo 7y ago
  Sure, Fox new may be the highest rated cable channel. But it's pretty much the only mainstream conservative cable network. Also, categorizing the Wall Street Journal as conservative is rather dubious. They lean liberal on most social issues, people mostly just assume they're conservative because they have a centrist understanding of market principles (e.g. that rent control won't lower the cost of housing in the long run). The percentage of journalists that identify as Republicans is in the single digits: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/05/06/just-7-percent-of-journalists-are-republicans-thats-far-less-than-even-a-decade-ago/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/05/06/ju...
  - rayiner 7y ago
    Also, the 100 largest newspapers overwhelmingly endorsed Clinton, even though Trump carried 46% of the popular vote: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_th.... > Among the United States' 100 largest newspapers by paid circulation, 57 endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, while only two, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Florida Times-Union, endorsed Trump. Four (the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit News, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and the Charleston (South Carolina) Post and Courier) endorsed Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, while three other newspapers (USA Today, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) specifically discouraged their readers from voting for Trump. To put that into perspective: even though reporters are 83% white—they are 1/5 as likely as whites in general to identify as republican. Asian, Hispanic, Muslim, and LGBT people are all twice as likely or more to identify as republican than journalists.
    - malandrew 7y ago
      > even though reporters are 83% white Really? Would love to have a citation for this. This is a fact that could come in handy.
      - rayiner 7y ago
        https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/399461/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article...
        snazz 7y ago
        Without AMP: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/minorities-in-journalism/399461/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/minorit...
        rayiner 7y ago
        Did the math wrong—87% of newspaper journalists.
gyc 7y ago
Yeah it's definitely that and not the President putting out absolutely deranged statements on a daily basis on twitter and elsewhere.
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- RickJWagner 7y ago
  Outrageous, yes. Deranged, no. I'll make a prediction. Next Tuesday, Trump will dominate the news cycle. And next Thursday. And the one after that. And every day in between. What does this do? - Keeps everybody talking about Trump. All the time. - Every outrageous statement has some grain of truth in it. It makes people talk, and give him a slice of benefit of doubt. - Absolutely takes every ounce of air out of the room for his political opponents. Nobody is going to hear much about their ideas. It's the new-style of politics. And it worked through the Republican primary, then the general election. Against long odds and a monetary deficit in each. Better get used to it. The media falls for it, Every. Single. Time.
  - jjeaff 7y ago
    You say that like this is a conscious strategy on Trump's part to win and accomplish his agenda. In reality, attention is his only agenda. Narcissism in it's purest form. Also, I disagree that there is always a grain of truth in his tweets. He's an unintelligent bigot slowly losing his mind to old age and disuse. Any grains of truth are purely happenstance.

> Mainstream media says "Republicans bad," You mean apart from the highest-rated cable channel, the largest TV station operator[2], and the second-largest daily newspaper, in the US?[3][4] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News#Ratings_and_reception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News#Ratings_and_reception 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#2018_journalistic_responsibility_promos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#2018_... 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_States#By_circulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Unit... 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal#Political_stance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal#Politi...

weiming 7y ago
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- StudentStuff 7y ago
  Sounds like you live in a bubble
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manfredo 7y ago
Sure, Fox new may be the highest rated cable channel. But it's pretty much the only mainstream conservative cable network. Also, categorizing the Wall Street Journal as conservative is rather dubious. They lean liberal on most social issues, people mostly just assume they're conservative because they have a centrist understanding of market principles (e.g. that rent control won't lower the cost of housing in the long run). The percentage of journalists that identify as Republicans is in the single digits: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/05/06/just-7-percent-of-journalists-are-republicans-thats-far-less-than-even-a-decade-ago/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/05/06/ju...
- rayiner 7y ago
  Also, the 100 largest newspapers overwhelmingly endorsed Clinton, even though Trump carried 46% of the popular vote: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_th.... > Among the United States' 100 largest newspapers by paid circulation, 57 endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, while only two, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Florida Times-Union, endorsed Trump. Four (the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit News, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and the Charleston (South Carolina) Post and Courier) endorsed Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, while three other newspapers (USA Today, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) specifically discouraged their readers from voting for Trump. To put that into perspective: even though reporters are 83% white—they are 1/5 as likely as whites in general to identify as republican. Asian, Hispanic, Muslim, and LGBT people are all twice as likely or more to identify as republican than journalists.
  - malandrew 7y ago
    > even though reporters are 83% white Really? Would love to have a citation for this. This is a fact that could come in handy.
    - rayiner 7y ago
      https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/399461/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article...
      - snazz 7y ago
        Without AMP: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/minorities-in-journalism/399461/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/minorit...
        rayiner 7y ago
        Did the math wrong—87% of newspaper journalists.

gyc 7y ago

Yeah it's definitely that and not the President putting out absolutely deranged statements on a daily basis on twitter and elsewhere.

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RickJWagner 7y ago
Outrageous, yes. Deranged, no. I'll make a prediction. Next Tuesday, Trump will dominate the news cycle. And next Thursday. And the one after that. And every day in between. What does this do? - Keeps everybody talking about Trump. All the time. - Every outrageous statement has some grain of truth in it. It makes people talk, and give him a slice of benefit of doubt. - Absolutely takes every ounce of air out of the room for his political opponents. Nobody is going to hear much about their ideas. It's the new-style of politics. And it worked through the Republican primary, then the general election. Against long odds and a monetary deficit in each. Better get used to it. The media falls for it, Every. Single. Time.
- jjeaff 7y ago
  You say that like this is a conscious strategy on Trump's part to win and accomplish his agenda. In reality, attention is his only agenda. Narcissism in it's purest form. Also, I disagree that there is always a grain of truth in his tweets. He's an unintelligent bigot slowly losing his mind to old age and disuse. Any grains of truth are purely happenstance.