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Because if you actually stop to look at 'their' side and compare the news stories to 'your' side, you'll find both sides are full of exactly the same kind of lo

Because if you actually stop to look at 'their' side and compare the news stories to 'your' side, you'll find both sides are full of exactly the same kind of loaded subjective language, usually written in the same adversarial tone and distort truth in some way to fit an agenda. In some cases you can literally take a story from one side, swap all the adjectives so they have the opposite meaning and congrats, you've now written a story for the other side. https://youtu.be/xiYZ__Ww02c https://youtu.be/xiYZ__Ww02c

riskable 6y ago
> In some cases you can literally take a story from one side, swap all the adjectives so they have the opposite meaning and congrats, you've now written a story for the other side. This is not how media bias works. What you're referring to is how propaganda works (well, one type anyway: Where you report the opposite of the truth in order to confuse people into thinking, "I don't know who to believe anymore"). > https://youtu.be/xiYZ__Ww02c https://youtu.be/xiYZ__Ww02c You know this video is satire, right? It's not real yet I'm getting a hint here that you might have taken it at face value.
watwut 6y ago
That is not actually true. Not in terms of how the person doing reading will perceive it. And not in terms of how world works. Real world is not perfectly symmetrical. It is not composed of two sides in the first place. In the second, even if you roughly split it, it rare ends up as "both are the same". That ideology of perfect center is just emotionally convenient model.
hpcjoe 6y ago
This. Worse is watching otherwise intelligent friends parrot the crap you see coming out of the propaganda arms of each party or party faction. They accept what they hear uncritically, as it feeds into their own beliefs (confirmation bias), without questioning the basis/interpretation. I've found for me, the lowest anxiety manner in which to consume news, is generally, to not consume it. In most cases, news in the US is propaganda (left, right, doesn't matter). It is a set of partial observations passed through ideological filters and summarized according to the desires of the presenters. There are no US based "news" organizations that do not have stakes in the outcome of their blather.

riskable 6y ago

> In some cases you can literally take a story from one side, swap all the adjectives so they have the opposite meaning and congrats, you've now written a story for the other side. This is not how media bias works. What you're referring to is how propaganda works (well, one type anyway: Where you report the opposite of the truth in order to confuse people into thinking, "I don't know who to believe anymore"). > https://youtu.be/xiYZ__Ww02c https://youtu.be/xiYZ__Ww02c You know this video is satire, right? It's not real yet I'm getting a hint here that you might have taken it at face value.

watwut 6y ago

That is not actually true. Not in terms of how the person doing reading will perceive it. And not in terms of how world works. Real world is not perfectly symmetrical. It is not composed of two sides in the first place. In the second, even if you roughly split it, it rare ends up as "both are the same". That ideology of perfect center is just emotionally convenient model.

hpcjoe 6y ago

This. Worse is watching otherwise intelligent friends parrot the crap you see coming out of the propaganda arms of each party or party faction. They accept what they hear uncritically, as it feeds into their own beliefs (confirmation bias), without questioning the basis/interpretation. I've found for me, the lowest anxiety manner in which to consume news, is generally, to not consume it. In most cases, news in the US is propaganda (left, right, doesn't matter). It is a set of partial observations passed through ideological filters and summarized according to the desires of the presenters. There are no US based "news" organizations that do not have stakes in the outcome of their blather.