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The Hill, like the Observer, used to be a great actual newspaper. The reporting in there was just phenomenal. And then presumably some conservative billionair

The Hill, like the Observer, used to be a great actual newspaper. The reporting in there was just phenomenal. And then presumably some conservative billionaire took it over and turned it into fox news light. Jared Kushner did the Observer takeover and turned it from something very weird and entertaining and serious and very New York into a directionless soup of trivialities. I used to buy and actually read the physical weird-somewhat-grapefruit-pink-colored newspaper on my way to/from my office near wall street. Sometimes things 'back in the day' really were a lot better.

kaliali 6y ago
The Hill is nothing but liberal propaganda. Billionaires buy corporate media to inject views in the populace that benefit the billionaires. If they're good at playing the slow game and lobbying congress, they can influence the thinking of a generation of people through education and media. Millenials don't think like boomers who don't think like the Greatest Generation who don't think like their parents generation before then. Your history classes don't clearly convey the way the general public thought in previous generations. Its very interesting to learn about previous generations thoughts and opinions on very similar issues that we see today. People had the same intelligence back then as they today, they just didn't have the library of scientific knowledge and surprisingly a lot of knowledge on their viewpoints is largely forgotten by the public. Bring on the down votes haters. People have the right to know.
- anigbrowl 6y ago
  The owner and manger of the The Hill, Jimmy finkelstein, is a friend of Trump's, whose wife held an unpaid position as adviser to Melania trump in 2017-18 ( a fact not mentioned to Hill readers). Given that the outlet publishes a large number of libertarian and conservative op-eds, your claim seems at odds with reality, and is not supported by anything other than vague generalities about demography.
  - bananabiscuit 6y ago
    I am not familiar with The Hill, but the segment posted here did not seem to me to be biased one way or the other. Did you find there was something that leaned right/conservative in this specific video?
    - anigbrowl 6y ago
      No, I was just responding to the parent comment.
  - Consultant32452 6y ago
    Trump was a New York democrat most of his life. His platform had a lot in common with Bernie Sanders. To name some areas of overlap: strict border control, ending the wars, and renegotiating trade deals. Trump increased restrictions on guns. Trump was even open to socialized healthcare but the republicans wouldn’t have supported that.
    - cassepipe 6y ago
      "Trump was even open to socialized healthcare but the republicans wouldn’t have supported that." It makes it sound like he would just tone down on socialized healthcare whereas in fact, he just waged a war on Obamacare. Anyways I never expected him to be consistent.
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- amanaplanacanal 6y ago
  I find this fascinating. You call The Hill liberal propaganda, and your parent calls it Fox News light.
  - arkaic 6y ago
    Exactly. Great example how we are all viewing different movies
- dang 6y ago
  Please read the site guidelines (all the way to the end, since the second-last one is relevant here) and please stick to the rules when posting to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
throwawaysea 6y ago
It’s rated as centrist bias: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart From what I’ve seen they make an effort to be balanced. Saagar Enjenti, who appears in this video and is a Republican, regularly presents alongside Krystal Ball, who is a progressive, in this joint show: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_(news_show) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_(news_show)
- skinnymuch 6y ago
  The Overton window applies is. That dividing that site is doing is in no way indicative of how the world is or how the US has been. Just how the mainstream is since Reagan. Notice it doesn’t take into account any leftist publications. Their left most section includes mostly neoliberal things.

kaliali 6y ago

The Hill is nothing but liberal propaganda. Billionaires buy corporate media to inject views in the populace that benefit the billionaires. If they're good at playing the slow game and lobbying congress, they can influence the thinking of a generation of people through education and media. Millenials don't think like boomers who don't think like the Greatest Generation who don't think like their parents generation before then. Your history classes don't clearly convey the way the general public thought in previous generations. Its very interesting to learn about previous generations thoughts and opinions on very similar issues that we see today. People had the same intelligence back then as they today, they just didn't have the library of scientific knowledge and surprisingly a lot of knowledge on their viewpoints is largely forgotten by the public. Bring on the down votes haters. People have the right to know.

anigbrowl 6y ago
The owner and manger of the The Hill, Jimmy finkelstein, is a friend of Trump's, whose wife held an unpaid position as adviser to Melania trump in 2017-18 ( a fact not mentioned to Hill readers). Given that the outlet publishes a large number of libertarian and conservative op-eds, your claim seems at odds with reality, and is not supported by anything other than vague generalities about demography.
- bananabiscuit 6y ago
  I am not familiar with The Hill, but the segment posted here did not seem to me to be biased one way or the other. Did you find there was something that leaned right/conservative in this specific video?
  - anigbrowl 6y ago
    No, I was just responding to the parent comment.
- Consultant32452 6y ago
  Trump was a New York democrat most of his life. His platform had a lot in common with Bernie Sanders. To name some areas of overlap: strict border control, ending the wars, and renegotiating trade deals. Trump increased restrictions on guns. Trump was even open to socialized healthcare but the republicans wouldn’t have supported that.
  - cassepipe 6y ago
    "Trump was even open to socialized healthcare but the republicans wouldn’t have supported that." It makes it sound like he would just tone down on socialized healthcare whereas in fact, he just waged a war on Obamacare. Anyways I never expected him to be consistent.
- deleted 6y ago
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amanaplanacanal 6y ago
I find this fascinating. You call The Hill liberal propaganda, and your parent calls it Fox News light.
- arkaic 6y ago
  Exactly. Great example how we are all viewing different movies
dang 6y ago
Please read the site guidelines (all the way to the end, since the second-last one is relevant here) and please stick to the rules when posting to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

throwawaysea 6y ago

It’s rated as centrist bias: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart From what I’ve seen they make an effort to be balanced. Saagar Enjenti, who appears in this video and is a Republican, regularly presents alongside Krystal Ball, who is a progressive, in this joint show: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_(news_show) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_(news_show)

skinnymuch 6y ago
The Overton window applies is. That dividing that site is doing is in no way indicative of how the world is or how the US has been. Just how the mainstream is since Reagan. Notice it doesn’t take into account any leftist publications. Their left most section includes mostly neoliberal things.