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It seems like more right-leaning sites have it easier to remain funded by advertisements while the more left-leaning sites, which I believe includes USA Today,
by bjourne 5y ago
It seems like more right-leaning sites have it easier to remain funded by advertisements while the more left-leaning sites, which I believe includes USA Today, more often than not have to go for subscriptions. And since most people are cheapskates and not willing to pay for news, left-wing voices are heard by fewer and fewer.
- abz10 5y agoOne of the ironies in banning right wing voices from popular platforms is that you teach their audiences that they have to more proactive in supporting their content.
- AtlasBarfed 5y agoUSA Today is left-wing? I thought it was a free reading rag for traveling businessmen at the hotel breakfast buffet.
- AJ007 5y agoIs it still written at a grade school reading level? It was kind of like news for dummies but a step above watching it on TV.
- slumdev 5y agoIt's like the WSJ, except for people who don't like big words.
- bjourne 5y agoAlmost everything is right-wing in the US. The left-wing of the right-wing may be a more appropriate description of USA Today.
- will4274 5y ago> Almost everything is right-wing in the US. Compared to what? Compared to a dozen or so of the most liberal countries in the world, all of which are located in Europe - fair enough. Compared to the world as a whole today, including Asia and Africa? Almost everything in America is left wing, including the republican party and USA today. Compared to virtually any government anywhere prior to 1800? Again, almost everything in America is left wing, including the republican party and USA today.
- bjourne 5y ago> Compared to the world as a whole today, including Asia and Africa? Almost everything in America is left wing, including the republican party and USA today. That is just not true. For example, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Iran, and Sri Lanka has universal health care - the United States does not.
- will4274 5y ago> Iran Go ahead. Tell me about how Iran is more left wing than the United States. Perhaps they have especially generous rights for women? The majority of those countries have had coups in the last decade and severely restrict basic liberal political freedoms like free political speech. Your examples are pretty much an admission that you're wrong, afaict.
- bjourne 5y ago> Go ahead. Tell me about how Iran is more left wing than the United States. I just did. Iran has universal health care - the United States does not.
- will4274 5y agoYou believe that a theocracy without women's rights, gay rights, free speech, or secularism is more left wing than the United States because it has universal healthcare, and that the Democratic party is conservative compared to Ayatollah Khamenei?
- bjourne 5y agoYes. Now find me a source for the claim "Almost everything in America is left wing, including the republican party and USA today", will you?
- will4274 5y agoI mean, if you think a single issue (healthcare) sufficies for your point, then a single issue suffices for my point as well. So free speech. The United States had the most liberal (left wing) laws on free speech in the world. But I don't think it's about one issue - it's about all of them, taken as a whole. And I think you know that and I don't think you're arguing in good faith by acting otherwise. So I'm not going to reply anymore.
- rc_mob 5y agoUSA today favors those with money and power. It does not accurately tell stories from the point of view of the poor.