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Really? It’s not the media?

by sn0w_crash 4y ago

cyanydeez 4y ago
Or the extremists themselves?
- sn0w_crash 4y ago
  Political, religious, and ideological extremists have always been there, throughout all of human history. The extreme, relentless, rage baiting polarization of the media, however, is a more recent phenomenon. It was not like this even 10 years ago. We can blame the algorithms or the readers or the advertisers. It’s still the one thing that stands out to many of us old enough to remember when you could read the same story on Fox, CNN, WSJ and the Times and it would be almost identical.
  - cyanydeez 4y ago
    Are the media not supposed to report on political extremist? You present zero evidence of the relative frequencies in reporting.
MrMan 4y ago
We will know soon enough right
alexfromapex 4y ago
That combined with the corporate capture of government
chank 4y ago
They count as political extremists even if to sell more whatever.
bergenty 4y ago
Just the extremist ones and all the problematic ones are categorically right wing/GOP.
RappingBoomer 4y ago
there are certainly strong forces dividing the populace and turning them against each other...the media is one of those forces, the primary force...but one big question is whether the media is just a tool in the hands of the corporations that fund the media via advertising purchases? Would these corporations want the populace divided? Yes, of course they would...divide et impera, aka divide and conquer has long been the preferred tactic of the elites...the USA was created under the guiding rubric of divide et impera: see Dr Woody Holton's book Unruly Americans, where he shows how the founding fathers created the enlarged federal voting districts and separation of powers/checks and balances form of federal govt in order to prevents the proles from uniting against the elites... the current propaganda regime directed by the media implements divide et impera by demonizing the largest demographic bloc and using propaganda (starting with the educational curriculum) to turn the the smaller demographic blocs against the largest and most powerful demographic bloc....the elites are using divide et impera and racial diversity as its tool...

Really? It’s not the media?

cyanydeez 4y ago

Or the extremists themselves?

sn0w_crash 4y ago
Political, religious, and ideological extremists have always been there, throughout all of human history. The extreme, relentless, rage baiting polarization of the media, however, is a more recent phenomenon. It was not like this even 10 years ago. We can blame the algorithms or the readers or the advertisers. It’s still the one thing that stands out to many of us old enough to remember when you could read the same story on Fox, CNN, WSJ and the Times and it would be almost identical.
- cyanydeez 4y ago
  Are the media not supposed to report on political extremist? You present zero evidence of the relative frequencies in reporting.

MrMan 4y ago

We will know soon enough right

alexfromapex 4y ago

That combined with the corporate capture of government

chank 4y ago

They count as political extremists even if to sell more whatever.

bergenty 4y ago

Just the extremist ones and all the problematic ones are categorically right wing/GOP.

RappingBoomer 4y ago

there are certainly strong forces dividing the populace and turning them against each other...the media is one of those forces, the primary force...but one big question is whether the media is just a tool in the hands of the corporations that fund the media via advertising purchases? Would these corporations want the populace divided? Yes, of course they would...divide et impera, aka divide and conquer has long been the preferred tactic of the elites...the USA was created under the guiding rubric of divide et impera: see Dr Woody Holton's book Unruly Americans, where he shows how the founding fathers created the enlarged federal voting districts and separation of powers/checks and balances form of federal govt in order to prevents the proles from uniting against the elites... the current propaganda regime directed by the media implements divide et impera by demonizing the largest demographic bloc and using propaganda (starting with the educational curriculum) to turn the the smaller demographic blocs against the largest and most powerful demographic bloc....the elites are using divide et impera and racial diversity as its tool...