Sorry. The media is complicit in the extreme divisions we are seeing in this country now. From George Floyd to Russian Collusion to Trump's legal issues and even Supreme Court decisions, the media is for the most part heavily biased against anything conservative, and is happy to misinform us. Oddly, they sometimes return with "corrections" many months after the fact when the damage has already been done.
I agree with your prescription (I don't think it's exhaustive, but it's good enough). Still, I don't share your glass-half-full assessment of mainstream media, much of which has more-or-less explicitly abandoned journalism for activism.
This feels like gaslighting. We know the media are biased left. We know the universities are biased left. We know the entertainment industry is biased left. We know the kind of censoring the social media companies and folks like Google participate in "to protect democracy" or some other nonsense. So, no. Don't put it on the electorate. They know what's happening and have every right to complain about what they see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears. News articles should always cover both sides of an argument. Opinion pieces should be founded on facts. Investigative journalists should keep daylighting the BS. Meanwhile, definitely don't watch CNN, MSNBC or any other leftist mouthpiece "news" organizations. Complain to the board of regents at the Universities. Complain to the companies that push leftist propaganda. Complain to everyone about the state of K-12 education in America. Complain about migrants flooding in at the rate of 7.2 million on Biden's watch who work without papers and usually pay no taxes. While we may need low-skilled workers, we don't need people working under the table. It's bad for us and bad for them. Don't let a single asylum seeker go without a work permit. Enforce the laws with teeth so employers will cooperate. But whatever you do, don't do what John says here as if there's nothing to see. Ugh.
I have a really hard time modeling the thinking of Democrats who think that the media (especially the NYT, Washington Post, etc.) are secretly conservative - typically the sentiment comes with a reference to the reporting on Hillary Clinton's private email server/some insult towards James Comey. Can anyone enlighten me here?
EDIT: This story sort of helps, but I'm still having a hard time seeing how covering the issues people are talking about in an election is slanted
Sorry. The media is complicit in the extreme divisions we are seeing in this country now. From George Floyd to Russian Collusion to Trump's legal issues and even Supreme Court decisions, the media is for the most part heavily biased against anything conservative, and is happy to misinform us. Oddly, they sometimes return with "corrections" many months after the fact when the damage has already been done.
I agree with your prescription (I don't think it's exhaustive, but it's good enough). Still, I don't share your glass-half-full assessment of mainstream media, much of which has more-or-less explicitly abandoned journalism for activism.
This feels like gaslighting. We know the media are biased left. We know the universities are biased left. We know the entertainment industry is biased left. We know the kind of censoring the social media companies and folks like Google participate in "to protect democracy" or some other nonsense. So, no. Don't put it on the electorate. They know what's happening and have every right to complain about what they see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears. News articles should always cover both sides of an argument. Opinion pieces should be founded on facts. Investigative journalists should keep daylighting the BS. Meanwhile, definitely don't watch CNN, MSNBC or any other leftist mouthpiece "news" organizations. Complain to the board of regents at the Universities. Complain to the companies that push leftist propaganda. Complain to everyone about the state of K-12 education in America. Complain about migrants flooding in at the rate of 7.2 million on Biden's watch who work without papers and usually pay no taxes. While we may need low-skilled workers, we don't need people working under the table. It's bad for us and bad for them. Don't let a single asylum seeker go without a work permit. Enforce the laws with teeth so employers will cooperate. But whatever you do, don't do what John says here as if there's nothing to see. Ugh.
I have a really hard time modeling the thinking of Democrats who think that the media (especially the NYT, Washington Post, etc.) are secretly conservative - typically the sentiment comes with a reference to the reporting on Hillary Clinton's private email server/some insult towards James Comey. Can anyone enlighten me here?
EDIT: This story sort of helps, but I'm still having a hard time seeing how covering the issues people are talking about in an election is slanted
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1709604416761703c4cd4a98a/raw