Politics Thread

**boozehound** · 07-27-2020, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by noteggs

You know I don’t mind slanted sources on either side because it gives me an opportunity to dig into the subject to find its validity. I like to find interesting stories that I may or may not agree politically. That way you don’t live in your own political bubble.

Unfortunately for me, MSM tries to create a narrative to fit their agenda. I’ve seen this trend long before Trump was elected as I’ve recently stated. Sure you can say 1,000 stories can be reported on any day which is true, but when they do seem to be slanted for one political party. Last time I checked MSM’s political affiliations, only 7% claimed to be Republicans. This doesn’t mention the disparity in political donations. We would have to be pretty naive to think this doesn’t drive a slight bias.

The reason I bring all this up, I can’t blame right leaning folks for utilizing some right leaning sources because sometimes that’s all they got.

I don't think you'd find anyone who doesn't believe that the media has at least a slight bias. Probably more than slight. I don't blame Republicans for watching Fox News for example, as much as I do blame them for constantly decrying how biased the media is but then engaging with clearly biased media, while denying that their media source is biased. I think that the left definitely clearly wins the mainstream media bias award, however the folks on the right seem to have an endless supply of homegrown Op/Ed type websites that masquerade as news that they seem to engage with frequently and deeply.

Originally Posted by bjf123

I would at least argue their news coverage is more balanced. Their talking head shows are clearly conservative. Sadly, too many people think shows like Hannity, Don Lemon, Rachel Maddow, etc., are news when they’re anything but.

I remember reading about a study some university journalism program did of TV news coverage of either the W vs Kerry election or Obama vs McCain. They rated each news story, again not opinion stories, as either positive or negative towards the candidate. Fox was actually “fair and balanced” at that time, with the same ratio of positive vs negative stories about each candidate. CNN was next but had slightly more positive stories about the Democratic candidate and slightly more negative stories about the Republican candidate. MSNBC was the worst by far, with something Iike 70/30 in favor of the Democrat and 75/25 negative towards the Republican.

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Even Obama McCain was a lifetime ago in terms of the media's acceleration toward bias. I do think that a big part of the problem is 24 hour news, and the need to develop content, coupled with tribalism. There just isn't all that much news to report objectively to fill the time that we now have available for 'news'. Networks have filled the void with endless opinion shows that very effectively market to the biases of their viewers. These opinion shows have slowly infiltrated the networks to the point that they have become part of their overall psyche.

It's really hard to ask someone to shift gears from Hannity or Maddow to objective news. Most people can't or won't do it, so it's much easier to just let the bias influence your reporting of the news as well. At the end of the day these are all just businesses that wan't to maximize profit.

Lamont Sanford · 07-27-2020, 02:34 PM

Anyone know when Kanye is planning to announce his running mate??? That is more pivotal than Sleepy Joe choosing Kamala Harris or Susan Rice or Pocahontas Warren.

I'm hoping for a Kanye/Flava Flav ticket.

Mrs. Garrett · 07-28-2020, 08:35 AM

In local politics, Zach Hankins' dad Scott is running for County Commissioner up in Charlevoix, MI. We're renting a lake house up here for the week and have seen signs around town. So good luck to him.

**noteggs** · 07-28-2020, 02:48 PM

After watching some of the CF called the House committee hearing, had to laugh when a congressman introduced an article from Slate for the record. Guess this message board is not the only ones to present bias sources to make their points.

**paulxu** · 07-28-2020, 05:14 PM

Sometimes things are just so weird that you have to laugh.
Trump was retweeting some "doctors" who were pushing the chloro stuff as a cure.
Guess Facebook, Twitter, whoever took down the content as being misleading to the public or something.
(Full disclosure, I don't do the Twitter or Facebook).

Anyway, it turns out the story originated at Breitbart, and the lady "doctor" has the following ideas to her credit:

Before Trump and his supporters embrace Immanuel’s medical expertise, though, they should consider other medical claims Immanuel has made—including those about alien DNA and the physical effects of having sex with witches and demons in your dreams.

Immanuel, a pediatrician and a religious minister, has a history of making bizarre claims about medical topics and other issues. She has often claimed that gynecological problems like cysts and endometriosis are in fact caused by people having sex in their dreams with demons and witches.

You've got to admit that's funny. Boy would they have loved it if Biden had pushed that theory.

**boozehound** · 07-29-2020, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by paulxu

Sometimes things are just so weird that you have to laugh.
Trump was retweeting some "doctors" who were pushing the chloro stuff as a cure.
Guess Facebook, Twitter, whoever took down the content as being misleading to the public or something.
(Full disclosure, I don't do the Twitter or Facebook).

Anyway, it turns out the story originated at Breitbart, and the lady "doctor" has the following ideas to her credit:

You've got to admit that's funny. Boy would they have loved it if Biden had pushed that theory.

That is the problem with doing literally no research, I guess.

XU 87 · 07-29-2020, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by boozehound

That is the problem with doing literally no research, I guess.

Yep, the liberal way. When you don't agree with someone, you find some means to just shut that person up, or in this case, you shut up multiple people. I suspect the left will also try to have the doctors who spoke on this video fired. Why is the left so intolerant? Why do you take such delight in literally destroying people's careers or reputations, simply because they disagree with you?