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CatBus
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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28-May-2017, 10:31 PM

TV’s Frink said:

False equivalency.

Actually, I agree they all have a significant conservative slant. But I’m not talking about bias, which to some degree is unavoidable (big corporations have a bias in favor of big corporations, news at 11). What I’m talking about is outright discarding news you don’t like and seeking out/inventing news you do like, both by the network AND the viewer. Fox is merely the most extreme MSM example of this (nobody else ran the Obama the secret Muslim story into the ground, for example), but it does happen to a lesser degree elsewhere. Very few news outlets actually try to be centrist/unbiased. I don’t think the Washington Post’s flirtation with that will last very long, although I’m pleased with it for the moment. Corporations gotta corporate, they’ll swing right like everyone else eventually.