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CNN today is not "somewhat centrist" unless your only bar is MSNBC. Over the past half decade CNN has veered into full blown left wing activism.
by mdoms 4y ago
CNN today is not "somewhat centrist" unless your only bar is MSNBC. Over the past half decade CNN has veered into full blown left wing activism.
- dragonwriter 4y agoIf not an intentional lie, this could only be said by someone who has no idea what “left-wing” means.
- nicky0 4y agoHow would you describe the political leanings of CNN?
- monocasa 4y agoBroadly neo-liberal, probably closest to Ordoliberalism if one branch had to be picked.
- tjpnz 4y agoCentrist or centre-right if judged by non-US standards.
- mardifoufs 4y agoAre you american? CNN would be extremely liberal on social issues pretty much everywhere in the world.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> CNN would be extremely liberal on social issues pretty much everywhere in the world. Debatable, but even if true, its corporate capitalist economic stance would have it somewhere between the center and center-right, definitely no further left, the economic axis being the main determinant of left-right position.
- mardifoufs 4y agoI'd agree on your last point but I'd be curious to hear any example of a more socially liberal mainstream channel in the west.
- TechBro8615 4y agoI’d like to see an end to this trope of “US liberalism would be conservative anywhere else.” In terms of social issues, it’s blatantly untrue, and US liberals are easily the furthest left of any foreign liberal group on most social issues. In terms of economic issues, it’s only true when comparing actual laws – the progressive wing of the US Democratic Party is at least as far left as any liberal political group holding similar power in any other country.
- Dma54rhs 4y agoAre you serious? On social issues cnn is very hard left compared to any parts of the world.
- orthecreedence 4y agoI know. I can't turn on CNN for more than 30 seconds without hearing about seizing the means of production from the capitalist ruling class and abolishing commodity production.
- Amezarak 4y agoThere exists more than a “communism to laissez-fairs capitalism” axis when people are talking about right vs left. I don’t think it’s productive to point this out when I think it’s generally understood what they mean in this specific context. In “mainstream” American politics (by which we can define by what appears on television and newspapers”) “left” implies mostly advancing the progressive front on racial and sexual issues, as distinguished from the American right, which would rather stop where we are on those social issues and cut taxes or something. Both of them sometimes play a little lip service to the other issues but not much more, since most other things are dictated by long-term service personnel and/or large mega corporations. Even that I don’t think should really be thought of as a single axis - though they’re few enough now, there’s reactionaries who see capitalism as the source of all modern ills beginning with a very old ideological tradition that would look down just as much on communism.
- orthecreedence 4y agoIf discussing "left" vs "right" then I agree there's ambiguity. If discussing "left wing" vs "right wing" I think the scales skew further towards communism vs capitalism.