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Fox News isn't even a news source — of course they "inject agenda". As for NY Times I don't feel see any agendas in the titles, am I missing something?

AnthonyMouse 6y ago
> Fox News isn't even a news source — of course they "inject agenda". You could say that about a lot of places these days. > As for NY Times I don't feel see any agendas in the titles, am I missing something? In the first case they're both covering the exact same story but putting the opposite spin on it. Trump recommends that people wear a mask but then he often doesn't wear one himself. He says he doesn't wear it when he's only around people who have already been tested, which could be true enough but I suspect a big reason is that it impairs communication. Human communication is lossy and full of redundancy to compensate. If you don't quite hear something but you can see their lips moving you still know what they said. People say as much with facial expressions as with words. But not if you have a mask over your face. Trump's primary job right now is communicating, so "get Trump to wear a mask whenever he's talking to the public" becomes a priority for anybody who doesn't like him, because they have a plausible-sounding line about him setting an example, so it's a win-win for them -- either they paint him as reckless for not wearing a mask or they get him to wear it which impairs his communication. The media writes a hundred stories about it a week. Fox is only even covering that story to try to defend him, the others are using it as a political weapon and they know it. A mask also reminds everybody of the pandemic and a pandemic is always going to be bad for the incumbent. Which is the issue with the other story -- not the contents but the priority. Trump has been wanting to reopen the country, so reopening problems in some places are bad for Trump, so that's their top story. Important things happening in Hong Kong right now. I think there's some BLM stuff going on too. It would be one thing if this was an anomaly, but it's consistent. The Times literally has a thing on their site right now called "Meet the Supporters Trump has Lost."

AnthonyMouse 6y ago

> Fox News isn't even a news source — of course they "inject agenda". You could say that about a lot of places these days. > As for NY Times I don't feel see any agendas in the titles, am I missing something? In the first case they're both covering the exact same story but putting the opposite spin on it. Trump recommends that people wear a mask but then he often doesn't wear one himself. He says he doesn't wear it when he's only around people who have already been tested, which could be true enough but I suspect a big reason is that it impairs communication. Human communication is lossy and full of redundancy to compensate. If you don't quite hear something but you can see their lips moving you still know what they said. People say as much with facial expressions as with words. But not if you have a mask over your face. Trump's primary job right now is communicating, so "get Trump to wear a mask whenever he's talking to the public" becomes a priority for anybody who doesn't like him, because they have a plausible-sounding line about him setting an example, so it's a win-win for them -- either they paint him as reckless for not wearing a mask or they get him to wear it which impairs his communication. The media writes a hundred stories about it a week. Fox is only even covering that story to try to defend him, the others are using it as a political weapon and they know it. A mask also reminds everybody of the pandemic and a pandemic is always going to be bad for the incumbent. Which is the issue with the other story -- not the contents but the priority. Trump has been wanting to reopen the country, so reopening problems in some places are bad for Trump, so that's their top story. Important things happening in Hong Kong right now. I think there's some BLM stuff going on too. It would be one thing if this was an anomaly, but it's consistent. The Times literally has a thing on their site right now called "Meet the Supporters Trump has Lost."