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The media has no problem jumping the gun on sensitive topics if it suits their preferred politics.

by wakawaka28 2y ago

RonaldDump 2y ago
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- defrost 2y ago
  Nonsense. I don't recall a single headline of the form Starving mentally ill minority person eats cat as last resort The usual media outlets jumped straight on the illegal immigrants eating cats narrative with nary a shred of solid evidence. If you're not seeing headlines vilifying non white and non christian suspects on the slightest whiff of wrongdoing then you're either fully acclimatized or commenting in bad faith. The 22 day old nom de guerre strongly suggests the latter.
  - ivewonyoung 2y ago
    They simply don't cover the news instead of writing headlines like that. Like when the woman in the NYC subway was set on fire, many major news networks simply didn't report it.
    - selimthegrim 2y ago
      I certainly saw quite a bit about it and not just on Fox.
afavour 2y ago
That’s a somewhat empty statement. It would benefit from some concrete examples. Which media? What politics?
- wakawaka28 2y ago
  I would say all of the most popular media. Both sides do it but I sure notice it a lot more on the left. Maybe that's not fair because 80% of the media leans hard left. As for examples, this is the most obviously damning one I can remember: a pregnant nurse (white of course) was accused of stealing an e-bike from a black man standing in a group of several other black men. The NATIONAL media wasted zero time going to her employer, talking to her neighbors, basically putting her in danger over what was at worst a misunderstanding. The pundits were out there talking smack about "weaponized white tears" and that kind of horrible hateful rant against white people and especially white women. Here's one of the updates where she tried to get people off her back: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12100201/Pregnant-NYC-nurse-shares-receipts-day-shes-accused-stealing-Citi-bike-black-man.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12100201/Pregnant-N...
  - NewJazz 2y ago
    80% huh? You know fox news represents more than half of the TV news audience, right? https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cable-news/?tabItem=34586070-62b9-4c4f-b51d-d2192c3f9095 https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cable-news... Funny how you link the rag daily mail instead of the news organizations you are actually accusing.
    - wakawaka28 2y ago
      Re: Daily Mail, that link is one of the ones that was fair to the woman. If you do a modicum of research about that (which ought to be interesting to a normal person!) you can find plenty of information, including video of some major network interviewing her neighbors. I know you don't care though, you just want to downvote my insightful comments. Go find something better to do. >You know fox news represents more than half of the TV news audience, right? I'm not talking about market share, I'm talking about representation in these institutions. You should know better. I didn't just make that up about the media being biased toward the left either. It has been proven in multiple surveys and polls. Individual journalists themselves tend to lean left, and so do their agencies overall. Look at how the staff of Washington Post freaked out in response to Bezos telling them to be less biased: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/washington-post-staff-furious-bezos-nixes-endorsement-1235143513/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/washingt... Here's a study you might be interested in, one of many (not that I have a bibliography of this): https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/10/new-paper-out-the-left-liberal-skew-of-western-media/ https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/10/new-paper-out-the-left-... If you think more than half of all people prefer Fox News to the rest, that ought to tell you how insufferably biased they are. These used to be well-respected institutions but they have destroyed any semblance of impartiality in writing and good will toward the masses.

The media has no problem jumping the gun on sensitive topics if it suits their preferred politics.

RonaldDump 2y ago

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defrost 2y ago
Nonsense. I don't recall a single headline of the form Starving mentally ill minority person eats cat as last resort The usual media outlets jumped straight on the illegal immigrants eating cats narrative with nary a shred of solid evidence. If you're not seeing headlines vilifying non white and non christian suspects on the slightest whiff of wrongdoing then you're either fully acclimatized or commenting in bad faith. The 22 day old nom de guerre strongly suggests the latter.
- ivewonyoung 2y ago
  They simply don't cover the news instead of writing headlines like that. Like when the woman in the NYC subway was set on fire, many major news networks simply didn't report it.
  - selimthegrim 2y ago
    I certainly saw quite a bit about it and not just on Fox.

afavour 2y ago

That’s a somewhat empty statement. It would benefit from some concrete examples. Which media? What politics?

wakawaka28 2y ago
I would say all of the most popular media. Both sides do it but I sure notice it a lot more on the left. Maybe that's not fair because 80% of the media leans hard left. As for examples, this is the most obviously damning one I can remember: a pregnant nurse (white of course) was accused of stealing an e-bike from a black man standing in a group of several other black men. The NATIONAL media wasted zero time going to her employer, talking to her neighbors, basically putting her in danger over what was at worst a misunderstanding. The pundits were out there talking smack about "weaponized white tears" and that kind of horrible hateful rant against white people and especially white women. Here's one of the updates where she tried to get people off her back: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12100201/Pregnant-NYC-nurse-shares-receipts-day-shes-accused-stealing-Citi-bike-black-man.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12100201/Pregnant-N...
- NewJazz 2y ago
  80% huh? You know fox news represents more than half of the TV news audience, right? https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cable-news/?tabItem=34586070-62b9-4c4f-b51d-d2192c3f9095 https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cable-news... Funny how you link the rag daily mail instead of the news organizations you are actually accusing.
  - wakawaka28 2y ago
    Re: Daily Mail, that link is one of the ones that was fair to the woman. If you do a modicum of research about that (which ought to be interesting to a normal person!) you can find plenty of information, including video of some major network interviewing her neighbors. I know you don't care though, you just want to downvote my insightful comments. Go find something better to do. >You know fox news represents more than half of the TV news audience, right? I'm not talking about market share, I'm talking about representation in these institutions. You should know better. I didn't just make that up about the media being biased toward the left either. It has been proven in multiple surveys and polls. Individual journalists themselves tend to lean left, and so do their agencies overall. Look at how the staff of Washington Post freaked out in response to Bezos telling them to be less biased: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/washington-post-staff-furious-bezos-nixes-endorsement-1235143513/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/washingt... Here's a study you might be interested in, one of many (not that I have a bibliography of this): https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/10/new-paper-out-the-left-liberal-skew-of-western-media/ https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/10/new-paper-out-the-left-... If you think more than half of all people prefer Fox News to the rest, that ought to tell you how insufferably biased they are. These used to be well-respected institutions but they have destroyed any semblance of impartiality in writing and good will toward the masses.