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This "broad conception" is pretty well documented as what Congress wanted at the time of passage of 14th Amendment. It's been considered "settled law" for ages.
by bediger4000 3mo ago
This "broad conception" is pretty well documented as what Congress wanted at the time of passage of 14th Amendment. It's been considered "settled law" for ages. The only real reason it's come to SCOTUS is that a particular political faction wants it to, and the media gives that particular faction more credence, and more coverage. So there's two things here:
1. An artificially whipped-up "question".
2. Conservative bias in the media.
- gred 3mo ago> Conservative bias in the media. Depending on how you count, something like 96%, 94%, 65% or 87% of mainstream media employees lean left. Of course this matters less and less as customers tune out and their influence wanes. https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Do_97_percent_of_journalist_donations_go_to_Democrats https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Do_97_percent_of_journali...
- ceejayoz 3mo agoNow do the management/ownership side.
- bediger4000 3mo agoThank you! Do they make the decisions about what stories to work and to run?
- thrance 3mo agoYes, educated people tend to lean left, since the right is so anti-intellectual. But virtually all media in this country (both social and legacy) belongs to the far right pedophile oligarchs currently running this country to the ground to fatten their pockets.
- zeroonetwothree 3mo agoThe media in the US generally leans left (with a few notable exceptions).
- bediger4000 3mo agoThis is a cherished American belief, but I don't think it's true after 2016, when NYT gave Trump a significant boost with their coverage of Clinton's emails, and continues to sanewash Trump, after 2024, when billionaires like Soon-Shiong and Bezoa personally directed their paper's editorial stance towards Harris, after Aksel Springer unveils a corporate conservative bias policy. I think it's blatant now, but evidence suggests that "liberal bias" was never more than a partisan accusation.