To be clear, he painted the LEGACY media as the enemy. You know, the enemy that arguably takes some steps towards professional journalism.
They did for a generation or so. I think the internet has blown it all up tho, with instant access to whatever cuts the boredom and entertains or aggravates. We shouldnt underestimate peoples addiction to indignation and aggravation.
I thought about this chicken or egg effect. Then I realized that this all preceded Trump. The echo chamber environment of New York City based journalism was just as evident in Nixon's time as Trump's. That was really the point of my post. I don't think this effect is one where one person or one organization is to blame. The leftward slide of news media could probably be traced back to the 60's radicals that became the media talking heads in the 70's.
Perhaps there’s such an imbalance in newsrooms because Republicans make lousy journalists. After all, how many halfway decent right-leaning outlets are there? WSJ, the Economist, and…. anybody else? Seems to me that the Right has a thing for consuming and creating trash “news.” It should be no surprise then that they can’t land gigs in better organizations.
Back when I worked in my basement late into the evening, I listened to John Schaefer's New Sounds. I loved that show; should probably stream it now. He introduced me to some of my all time favorites.
What is important as consumers of news is not the bias in the media as much as our understanding their bias. That understanding allows us to not get stuck in an echo chamber where we are suffering from confirmation bias, consuming news that just reinforces our opinions instead of challenging them.
I wasn't pointing the finger at you or I would have replied to you directly. I apologize for this misunderstanding. Earlier in this thread I saw a reply "oh that's Fox news" I was generally speaking.
Nor do I think right-wing outlets are gospel (trustworthy) like I used to. I find out the devious stuff the right does from the left and vice versa. I learned here on this forum how certain people's views are about news outlets. I found that out with zero hedge when I first posted the news or blogs I got from Finviz a financial site. I see that a lot of stuff is right leaning with zero hedge so I try not to post stuff that creates the political tit for tat.
I disagree and I had to look up yellow journalism. lol How do you know if you don't watch and I used to think the same about left media? I've said before that I don't watch ms media (I get that here lol) I tend to go non-Western foreign because everything from the West seems scripted. I read everything as propaganda. Peace
I had to come back to this thread because of our conversation about "$1 trillion every hundred days" I searched and noticed that not too many Left Wing News came up on that search. In my book hiding information is as bad as misinformation.
Nobody's hiding anything. Lots of outlets talk about the federal budget:
Is CNBC silly? It was a true statement when it was written and because you provided a Google search it's 1.2 trillion they passed into law.
That wasn't the entire budget. That was just a temporary measure to avoid a shutdown:
No it wasn't ten years. The date is on the link. I'll paste the link again so you can look at it. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/01/the...ising-by-1-trillion-about-every-100-days.html
I missed your earlier post. I assumed we were talking about spending, not how much was being added to the debt.
I learned something today that all web browsers are not created equal. I use the Brave browser because my son says it's more private. I went eye doctor and looked it up again and the Brave browser on my phone gave me different info. Got home and on Chrome wala. I stand corrected on hiding information my browser was hiding it from me lol. I was limited in the ammo to fight you guys with lol. I thought the internet was the internet and what is going on. Help Please.
