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very fake news strikes again

lame stream media is not right wing :P

I just found it what I would consider out of character for you, to hear you criticizing a conservative newspaper, and accusing it of fake news. Don't you usually reserve that accusation for the liberal outlets? I suspect you did not realize the WSJ was, generally speaking, a conservative organ.

I believe the opinion/editorial pages of the WSJ are as well known for their Right leaning/Conservative talking points as The NY Times or Washington Post editorial/opinion pages are known for their Left leaning/Liberal talking points.

All three are among America's major newspapers, and all produce great journalism as far as I am concerned. I appreciate and respect good journalism. Certainly I am at the point where I seldom pay any attention to folks who all too frequently cry "Fake News!!", since, all too often, rather then identifying an article that is actual fake news, it has become just another way of saying "I don't agree with what is said in this article", and without really explaining why. This strikes me as intellectually lazy. And really, what kind of a standard is that for determining if an article represents good journalism or not? It's become quite silly, and very lazy. It's shouted so often, that it really has lost any meaning it might have.

Fake news exists, the Senate Intelligence Committee heard all about the examples generated by the Russians during America's 2016 election. But, as a shorthand for "I don't agree with this article", it's just plain silly and intellectually lazy. It's a shame, really.
 
The major news networks are a poor source of news, and they are not truly ideological (except for the ideology about maximizing profits). Fox News is "conservative" because a panel of business people sits around discussing how to keep their audience, which consists on average of 70 year old conservatives, watching the network. If shouting about Obama keeps their audience engaged, and enraged, then that's what they'll do. But it isn't sincere. It's just a business decision. Fox having captured the old-white-men-who-watch-TV-news market, CNN fights for whatever is left (TV screens at the gym? Who the **** actually watches that trash?).

Print media is mostly "liberal" leaning because journalists, who are formally educated city-dwellers, tend to be more liberal. So the news comes from that perspective. WSJ editorial pages tend to lean conservative, specially economically, but the rest of the paper still reflects the liberalist perspective.

70 year old sreally?

you haven't seen how immensely popular tucker is among teenagers! it is the most pirated news show on youtube!
 
Hilarious thread here. Ten communists arguing over what is, to them, true centrist propaganda.

News should be news. As in, objective, factual, and unbiased. If you can describe it as "conservative" in bias, or "liberal" in bias, it just isn't "news".

I suppose the early Christians during Roman times had a unique point of view. Jesus is Lord, and He's coming soon. Might be some people who apply that to their world view today, as opposed to some second coming of the twelfth Immam or whatever.

Point is, our commercial media, whether "mainstream" or not, is not really what I'd call "news" or objective reporting. Everybody has a point of view.

I've been around communists factions so contentious over who is the "real" Marxist and who is the statist schill. And I've been around conservatives so intense on their little points of all-important "truth" as well.

What I really don't approve of is rah rah activists who trot out their fav "press" to try to reshape the world. We've got enough politicians drawing and quartering the world willing to start wars for some damned ideological vision or another. Wanna be "revolutionaries" who have somehow convinced themselves they know what the world must become.

you know, "moderate" wannabe avant-garde progressives and such. People who just won't believe anything negative about a Hillary or an Obama, but wanna destroy a naïve chump like Trump.

and, you know, "establishment" wannabe New World Order fascists like the Brit royals and the Rockefeller sycophants.

Whatever they push has gotta be as fake as "news" can ever get.

Looks to me like the trouble with Trump is really gonna be just the fact that he is an outsider with personal buttons others can push. Damn establishment politicians.
 
actually it is the marketfoirces at work, having bill isnt profitable anymore for fox news. so it's bye bye bill

Mark Levin and other conservative talk programs who formerly despised Bill have observed this piranha attack on Bill as just step one in a media purge of right-wingers. Not sure about the fun sex stuff, don't givadamn either. What matters is his point of view for whatever merit it may have for his audience.

We are losing free speech on the internet already. I figure we have a whole bunch of knuckleheads in here who call it "progress" to manage the "community" and filter out the non-conformists. People of that mindset are not believing human liberty is a high value, over, say, saving the world from this or that imagined sky that may be falling.
 
Mark Levin and other conservative talk programs who formerly despised Bill have observed this piranha attack on Bill as just step one in a media purge of right-wingers. Not sure about the fun sex stuff, don't givadamn either. What matters is his point of view for whatever merit it may have for his audience.

We are losing free speech on the internet already. I figure we have a whole bunch of knuckleheads in here who call it "progress" to manage the "community" and filter out the non-conformists. People of that mindset are not believing human liberty is a high value, over, say, saving the world from this or that imagined sky that may be falling.

but we are winning the battle of free speech. thanks to battle of kekistan and USA vs antifa. the great battle of berkely.

we are winning.
 
Here is some non fake news.

Fox has dropped Bill O'Reilly

Somebody will pick him up. He is like that cagey vet with playoff experience that everyone thinks will do WAY more than he ever really did in real life.
 
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