That article shows only one channel used terms like “illegals” and “snowflakes” regularly so I don’t think there’s really an equal comparison.
The simple fact of the matter is there wasn’t much of importance in the leaked emails.
I’ll agree to disagree with you on that one, since important is subjective. I think there were some very important things that WikiLeaks revealed.
I think important is relative. Lots of things are important, but some more than others.
All lot of the stuff in the emails were frankly unsurprising, which is probably another reason they didn’t get a lot of coverage. There were also plenty of boring emails, and a lot of emails that were shady depending on interpretation.
To say nothing of the fact that there were certainly equally important emails in the Trump camp that we simply never saw.
(to say nothing of the fact that the whole email leak happened because one fascist leader wanted to help install another fascist leader).
There has been no evidence presented that Putin had anything to do with WikiLeaks or the election as a whole.
I think now that even Trump has admitted to the Russian hacking, we can stop pretending like it was ever a conspiracy theory perpetrated by the entire intelligence community (for what purpose exactly?). Putin had the means and the reasons to do it so all in all it’s hard to believe he didn’t.
They’re tricking people in to distrusting everything that doesn’t lean right. When Fox says “Fair and Balanced,” it’s because they want you to believe that any outlet that isn’t as far right as them isn’t fair or balanced.
I think you’re thinking about this too much on party lines. Plenty of liberals distrust the media, plenty of conservatives trust the media.
I understand that it’s not as simple as the left trusts the media and the right doesn’t. I’m mainly just say that right is seeding distrust even where there shouldn’t be (and it’s spilling all over).
I have a (very liberal) friend who told me he thought CNN was as crazy liberal as Fox News is crazy conservative, just because he’s seen that reddit and YouTube (two places with a lot of conservative voices) love to call it the Clinton News Network. Whether CNN is biased or not, this is plainly untrue. When I told him that CNN at the very least tries to be neutral, he was legitimately surprised.
The distrust and misinformation goes beyond the simple echo chamber. There are people who will believe something if the president or his press secretary says something (regardless of party affiliation). If Trump calls CNN fake news, they’ll believe it (and regardless of whether they’re biased or not, they’re certainly not deserving of the treatment they got at that presser).
Again, there’s reason for everyone to be skeptical of what people are telling them. But to cast aside whole news organizations (and I’m not just talking CNN) is dangerous, and I’d argue the push for that is coming from the right, whether it reaches just the right or not.