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It is a wise propaganda tactic to label the exposing of inconvenient truths as “activist”, “mainstream media”, etc. All media can be labeled using such terms.
by skhunted 2y ago
It is a wise propaganda tactic to label the exposing of inconvenient truths as “activist”, “mainstream media”, etc. All media can be labeled using such terms. The brilliance of Fox News was to preempt this fact by using the slogan “fair and balanced”. As if it is such and yet its listeners largely believe this and that they are receiving untarnished information and spin.
- megaman821 2y agoWhy the comparison to Fox News? Fox News is terrible, if the mainstream media is only aiming to be slightly better than Fox News, we have problems. It is mistaken to think that the choices are only Fox News or CNN(or equivalent), the other (seemingly growing) choice is no news at all.
- analognoise 2y agoTikTok of random people talking as a primary news source.
- skhunted 2y agoYou have it backwards. Fox News compared itself to the “mainstream media” and labeled themselves “fair and balanced”. Conservatives ate that up and actually believe that Fox News is fair and balanced and that the “mainstream media” isn’t. I go the no news at all route these days. We live in an age of cheap, effective, easy to create misinformation.
- worksonmine 2y agoI remember when the NYT claimed they couldn't touch the lab leak theory because of Trump. It's more about what they're not exposing than what they are.