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This humors me: people still think CNN has a “liberal bias” especially as it transitions into ownership by David Ellison. They probably should have mentioned i
by dangus 5mo ago
This humors me: people still think CNN has a “liberal bias” especially as it transitions into ownership by David Ellison.
They probably should have mentioned it, yeah. But if you’re on a sinking ship in the ocean that does mean that the water level is rising relative to you and that is most of your problem.
And are we supposed to not be prepared and informed about the ocean rising at over 3mm per year? I wouldn’t exactly jump to being dismissive of sea level rise that is so dramatic. Every 10 years you’re gaining over an inch, every 100 you’re gaining about a foot. And then you’ve got the ice caps melting which is an impending climate disaster.
In reality, the right-wing criticism of the “mainstream media” has been a form of projection and justification for legitimizing its own propaganda network. Meanwhile, the right denies their own mainstream status: the “mainstream media lies” but the #1 cable news network is a right wing network, the Joe Rogan Experience is the #1 podcast that hosts political
guests but isn’t part of the “lying press,” and this is all justification for the FCC to send threatening letters to terrestrial networks for their choice of jokes on late night talk shows or their daytime talk shows not being conservative enough.
CNN misses one detail in a highly scientific story and they get accused of having an agenda, Fox News trots out an employee in a mask pretending to be antifa and nobody bats an eye.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t scrutinize all media, but this particular dynamic is something that has been noticeable.
- garrickvanburen 5mo agoAgreed. Also, as every media organization is free to make editorial decisions on both what they cover and how they cover it, left/right is often far too simplistic and vague to actually reverse engineer a media orgs bias.
- verisimi 5mo ago> CNN misses one detail in a highly scientific story and they get accused of having an agenda If it's as the earlier poster said that sinking is 8mm per year, versus 3.2mm and they point out the 3.2, don't you think this news organisation has missed the main detail?
- dangus 5mo agoThe article didn’t actually discuss the specific quantity of millimeters of sea level rise, either.
- Jensson 5mo agoThe headline is literally "Rising seas will swallow New Orleans", not "New Orleans is sinking below the seas", this would be an issue regardless if sea levels were raised or not, it would still sink down into the sea.
- dangus 5mo agoAnd conversely, if New Orleans was not sinking it would still face the same issues as the sea level is still rising. It would just be a little slower.
- natch 5mo agoIt’s not just the one detail. They also racialized the discussion of the impact and, egads, a cardinal sin, they mentioned the “Gulf of Mexico” and made their mention of the governor’s decision a partisan jab by not including the “one detail.”
- selimthegrim 5mo agoBeverly Wright has done yeoman's work for years on a number of good causes and quoting her is not merely racializng the discussion.
- aetch 5mo agoIt would be more confusing to call it the Gulf of America, everyone still knows it as the Gulf of Mexico.
- dangus 5mo agoThe white supremacists, descendants of the defeated confederacy, and their sympathizers would love for everyone to stop “racializing” issues. I guess they don’t want to talk about how black people didn’t even get protection against housing discrimination until the current president of the United States was already a teenager. This is why the impact is “racialized:” because non-white races often live in less desirable geographic regions of metropolitan areas. Look at a lot of American cities and demographics of people that live near flood plains and other hazards like pollution and noise and you’ll often notice racial patterns. These are objectively real, not “racialized.” The people who want us to stop talking about it like yourself, intentionally or not, want us all to bury our head in the sand and pretend like the discrimination has been resolved despite the fact that non-white races are still feeling these impacts. If you’d like to expand your mind on a related subject, this is a great story: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/02/983897990/how-jacob-louds-land-was-lost https://www.npr.org/2021/04/02/983897990/how-jacob-louds-lan...
- throwawaypath 5mo ago>In reality, the right-wing criticism of the “mainstream media” has been a form of projection and justification for legitimizing its own propaganda network. Meanwhile, the right denies their own mainstream status: the “mainstream media lies” but the #1 cable news network is a right wing network, the Joe Rogan Experience is the #1 podcast that hosts political guests but isn’t part of the “lying press,” Joe Rogan isn't "right," he openly supports recreational drug use, gay rights, women's right to abortion, universal healthcare, has endorsed Bernie Sanders and James Talarico, etc. He's not a leftist, but that doesn't make him "right wing."
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