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> actual policy questions that resembled what he would ask leaders in any other political party Next: interviews with green parties without discussing the envi
by car_analogy 4y ago
> actual policy questions that resembled what he would ask leaders in any other political party
Next: interviews with green parties without discussing the environment, interviews with pirate parties without discussing patents or copyrights, and long discussions about gerrymandering, never mentioning how in 2015, UKIP got 12% of the vote and only 0.15% of the seats [1], or how the National Front got 8.7% of the votes and 1.4% of the seats.
Report and interview truthfully, but with surgical precision, only every surfacing facts that serve your goals. If called out, invent contorted justifications why this selective coverage is objective. Then wring your hands that trust in the news is falling.
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015/results https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015/results
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_French_legislative_election#Results https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_French_legislative_electi...
- yorwba 4y ago> wring your hands that trust in the news is falling. No handwringing necessary; trust in the news is rising, at least in Germany. https://medienvertrauen.uni-mainz.de/files/2021/04/Medienvertrauen_Krisenzeiten.pdf https://medienvertrauen.uni-mainz.de/files/2021/04/Medienver...