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Article goes out of its way to avoid saying what's actually in the song or video.
by kadoban 5y ago
Article goes out of its way to avoid saying what's actually in the song or video.
- syspec 5y agoThat seems to be a really common thing! It's incredibly frustrating when reading some articles about someone being cancelled or the like.
- kadoban 5y agoIt's a speciality of Fox News. It promotes the outrage well when you leave out the actually objectionable part. Others do it as well of course.
- ipaddr 5y agoLike news shows local or national. Dislike the dropping of race when describing suspects at large but identifying gender.
- Quekid5 5y agoLocal news in the US is largely owned by Sinclair and/or ClearChannel. (Maybe the latter is only billboards and such. It's hard to keep up with the obfuscation.)
- bashonly 5y agoClearChannel got out of the television game years ago (and has since changed its name to the even-more-awful IHeartCommunications). And Sinclair really doesn't hold a candle to Nexstar and Gray Television, who have managed to buy up the vast majority of local affiliates over the past several years.
- WalterBright 5y agoThe dropping of race of suspects has been going on in the news since the 1970s.
- loonster 5y agoIn this instance, showing the lyrics that were censored would have increased the outrage.
- Fellshard 5y agoThis is not isolated to Fox News, whatever other problems it certainly has.
- JPKab 5y agoFox News was a pioneer in this technique and unfortunately CNN and MSNBC have followed suit. In the early 2000s I was always astonished by how utterly misinformed Fox News viewers were. In 2021 I am always astonished by how utterly misinformed MSNBC CNN and Fox News viewers are. On certain subjects like the statistical risk of a 35-year-old healthy person getting hospitalized for covid, Fox News viewers are actually the best informed. They still overestimate the risk but not by orders of magnitude that the other two sets of viewers succumb to. My father is a rabid MSNBC and CNN viewer, and like many of your typical resistance boomers is grossly ignorant about most things happening in the world. In December he was ranting to me about how the US could have had zero covid if someone else had been president. While I agreed with him that it had been mishandled I tried to explain to him that there wasn't any countries able to keep it out except for very isolated island nations. He was completely ignorant of this. He also freaked out when I contracted covid in February before I could give vaxxed. I was trying to explain to him that I'm very fit and healthy and relatively young but he really thought I was going to have to get hospitalized. This is when I started learning about the statistics on actual hospitalizations versus what the public thought. One difference between these groups of people who watch these utterly stupid channels is that Fox News viewers are pretty aware that they watch biased news. They weren't in the early 2000s though. MSNBC and CNN viewers think they're witnessing objective reporting in general. My father is always quick to say that he reads articles from the AP as if they are objective. They are absolutely not objective anymore. Ideological capture is a thing. And it was purely ideological when the AP told their reporters to call what was obviously rioting "mostly peaceful protests". The aftermath of that absurd line of thinking was me witnessing many family members who were right of center to completely lose any and all faith in journalistic institutions. It was a watershed moment in media becoming untrusted by most of the working class.
- TechBro8615 5y agoLess than 0.3% of the population watches prime time TV shows on any of the networks in your comment. Unfortunately despite a small initial audience they do have wide reach in terms of distributing short clips to various factions of the Twitter mob (which also happens to be comprised of an insignificant percentage of citizens). In some populations, a person has a better chance of catching covid and dying than they do of saying they watched Chris Cuomo last night.
- throwawayboise 5y agoDoes it really matter? Clearly it would be in the realm of satire or political humor, things liberals have historically been very vocal about protecting.
- JohnHaugeland 5y ago[flagged]
- throwawayboise 5y agoWho's lying? Satire and humor are not lies.
- lookalike74 5y agoSatire and humor both have definitions, neither of which described anything happening here.
- pkulak 5y agoWhy are you so convinced it's satire? Regardless, YT doesn't want that anti-vax shit on their platform, so they removed it. There's absolutely no controversy here.
- fastball 5y agoI'm very pro-vax. Watched the video. Where's the lie?
- hobomatic 5y agoyou know, sport, it isn't necessary to call everyone you disagree with 'champ'.
- CrazyPyroLinux 5y agoI'm not your buddy, guy!
- tyingq 5y agoI'm curious if it was substantially different than other variations on "Let's Go Brandon" songs, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9DClYso2FA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9DClYso2FA Note: Just curious. Didn't even know about this "Let's Go Brandon" thing until now.
- jfrunyon 5y ago"Biden said the jab stopped the spread, it was lies. How you WOKE but you haven’t opened your eyes?"
- chroem- 5y agoAre you implying that the lyric is wrong and the pandemic is over?
- enkid 5y agoThe lyrics don't say the vaccine would stop the pandemic, it says it would stop the spread, which it does. You are changing the wording to make it seem more reasonable than it is.
- JPKab 5y agoFully vaccinated people are less likely to contract or spread the virus. There's no question about this currently with the present strains. However they do not at all halt the spread of the virus. Israel is a good example of this. As I have said elsewhere in this thread I don't agree with the lyrics in that video. I find the video itself to be childish and silly but that would basically be 99% of rap and pop music in general.
- jfrunyon 5y agoThey do halt the spread. See also: polio, smallpox. They have not halted the spread because of vaccine misinformation like this very video which you are defending.
- chroem- 5y agoFlagged for some reason, so I will post it again: Are you implying that the pandemic is over?
- city41 5y ago[flagged]
- briane80 5y agoOnly government approved rap lyrics should be allowed on YouTube, such as making dolla, shooting my *** and slapping my *** etc
- gruez 5y agosibling comment further down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28972609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28972609
- workOrNah 5y agothere is a Twitter video linked. it's truly nonsense and in glad it was banned tbh. he says the pandemic was planned and COVID vaccine didn't work amongst other misinformation
- JPKab 5y agoIt is utterly nonsensical and foolish but I don't like the fact that it was banned. When US media reports on activities like this in countries like China and Russia they call it censorship. When they report on the same activities in the US they call it "protecting the public from misinformation". It's a very very slippery slope to ban things. Who gets to choose what gets banned? Who gets to say what is misinformation or not? It blows my mind how shortsighted most of my left of center friends are on this topic. They seem to have this delusion that these levers of power are only ever going to be controlled by the people they agree with. In the early 2000s a lot of people I argued with were totally supportive of the Patriot act. They were generally conservatives and were just completely confident it would never be used against US citizens. Now those same people are witnessing calls from people on the left who wants opposed to Patriot act to use it against US citizens with right-wing politics.