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e411d06d | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Read this item from today's Politico. It describes how false equivalency and both-sides-ing are not just a lazy habit in journalism, but a tool of politics that incorporates the bad journalism into party behavior, thus making a mockery of the images of detachment on which the press sells itself.

#journalism #uspol #science

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aaa4645a | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @e6b06cd1 Hillary Clinton's emails all over again?
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39122c24 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @e6b06cd1 
Sure, Trump is credibly accused of launching a violent coup against his own country, committing espionage on behalf of hostile foreign countries, and a 91 total felonies, but Hunter Biden had a gun he wasn't supposed to have, and he didn't pay his taxes on time, therefore Trump is innocent! Why are we wasting everyone's time talking about Trump?

Why is everyone making a big deal about treason when we could be talking about Hunter Biden instead?

#media
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cruxdaemon | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @e6b06cd1 I love the way political journalists perceive the public as so easily misinformed while simultaneously feeling no shame even tho a journalist's whole job is to inform the public.
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c8dfa7be | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @e6b06cd1  Today's Republicans, and earlier Democrats, the Confederate Widows, and the f*#$ing Confederates before them have never been far wrong when estimating what they could get away with by using the stupidity of a fair number of the U.S. populace.  The question is really . .  .who will vote? The Stupid and the Racist, or the rest of us?

Personally, I think counting on a fair-minded, insightful, or ethical media is a fools errand. Unless we regulate it.
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xs4me2 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @e6b06cd1 

Russian methods… spread lies to confuse the truth…
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d536cd5a | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @e6b06cd1 seriously!?
Is that their argument?! 
That’s almost Tucker Carlson stupid, 
or Glen Beck stupid or or Alex Jones stupid!!!
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fa2f5e19 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @e6b06cd1 This is gonna be another "Hillary's e-mails" type of scandal, isn't it? 😒
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edgeoforever 🍎 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @e6b06cd1 they are cooked in the same kitchen. Some day, people will abandon the illusion that political media is some sort of independent business only in it for clicks and profit. The owners/decision makers are the GOP/MAGA and it’s a pure quest for power. Always was, but a bit more subtle in the past. This kind of talk belonged in think tanks and war rooms.
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edgeoforever 🍎 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @e6b06cd1 they know what they are doing. Actively snuffing the truth to help their team.

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