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A campaign rally is not the same thing as a grassroots political protest by far. It's an organised event that an organiser explicitly invites people to, which p
by vertex-four 6y ago
A campaign rally is not the same thing as a grassroots political protest by far. It's an organised event that an organiser explicitly invites people to, which primarily serves party politics rather than any particular political issue.
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- f1refly 6y agoThat still doesn't change the very obviously biased framing of the information. You can objectively describe one as more important, or more justified if you will, but manipulating the reader by speaking to his subconciousness like they did is not what should be expected from serious journalism.
- vertex-four 6y agoI disagree - stating the different situations in different ways is entirely reasonable and to be expected. Can you find me some "serious journalism", ever, which operated in the way you describe?
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoCOVID-19 doesn't suddenly become a "different situation" depending on the political orientation of the mass gathering.
- vertex-four 6y agoIt's not the political orientation of the mass gathering - it's the purpose. One is the President organising a gathering in an attempt to boost his election campaign - the other is some random people who came together to protest a specific thing.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoAnd yet, the virus is still the same virus, so why is it okay to describe it differently in each piece?
- antepodius 6y agoSo?
- DuskStar 6y ago> It's not the political orientation of the mass gathering - it's the purpose. What is the political orientation of a "mass gathering" (rally/protest/etc) if not its purpose? Seriously.
- ceejayoz 6y agoSure it does, when opposition to mask wearing, social distancing, and other such precautions are part of that political orientation. (Plus, Trump's rally was indoors; protests are outdoors. We've got quite a bit of data now indicating outdoor transmission is less likely.)
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoI am not about to jump into a debate about which of the two is "worse", because no matter the outcome it is absolutely disingenious to frame COVID-19 as "deadly coronavirus pandemic, which continues to wreak havoc on the lives and livelihoods of households across the country" in one context and plain "coronavirus pandemic" in the other. It is the same virus. If you don't see the bias in that then consider the possibility that you share it.
- mistermann 6y ago>> COVID-19 doesn't suddenly become a "different situation" depending on the political orientation of the mass gathering. > It's not the political orientation of the mass gathering - it's the purpose. One is the President organising a gathering in an attempt to boost his election campaign - the other is some random people who came together to protest a specific thing. How does the purpose of a public gathering alter a virus? Does it have political awareness and dynamically modify its transmissibility according to the righteousness of the cause? Or perhaps the purpose of a public gathering justifies journalistic framing (altering the description of the severity of the virus, which in turn alters readers mental model of reality). If it's this, what is the logic behind the justification?