Posted on 03/04/2017 2:23:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Of course.
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The planted axiom being that "traditional media outlets" were near or at the center relative to Breitbart et al.
bkmk
Am I alone in aking “What #$^@ing MEDIA AGENDA???”
I love the hyper-partisan reference when referring to Breitbart.
the Alphabets aren’t????
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An astounding level of sanctimonious BS. The obvious failure to even mention Drudge, the single most widely read disseminator of news anywhere, makes the article completely worthless. Painting a blatantly partisan hack media as professional is so much flap doodle.
The article is too long by 90% and not worth reading by anyone serious about understanding information technology.
The final straw is the Obamaesque insistence upon a single standard of information dissemination controlled, presumably, by government edict, to better insure a homogenious thinking populas. Shades of Lenin.
The election study was funded by the Open Society Foundations U.S. Program. Media Cloud has received funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Open Societies Foundations.
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the most important thing to know. Soros.
You can write the authors if you like
“If technology were the most important driver towards a “post-truth” world, we would expect to see symmetric patterns on the left and the right. “
These geniuses have determined that the media are dead-center politically and technological improvements alone could not account for the reason why Dems watch CBS and Repubs read Breitbart. This is astoundingly bad journalism and is itself partisan disinformation. Note at the end of the article, there’s an attempt to lay the groundwork to “address” this disparity and return the lives of the 4th estaters to their natural, divine rule. Creepy - laying the groundwork to make legal decrees etc. for “fair” (i.e., leftist) media only. They think we need thought police to keep us from reading the wrong material.....
LOL….the Right is “insulated” from the Lying Left media for a good reason. We don’t believe a word they write or say.
“The election study was funded by the Open Society Foundations U.S. Program.”
“Open Society Foundations (OSF), formerly the Open Society Institute, is an international grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros.[2]” : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Foundations
Left behind, in this locked closet door of history, is the known and acknowledged bias of the ‘Main Stream Media’ (MSM). The discussion of the ‘growth’ of the ‘right-wing media ecosystem’ since Reagan ignores the factors that constrained such in prior years. The insidious and malicious ‘Fairness Doctrine’ (1949-1987) restricted rather than allowed non-orthodox [non-left] opinions by not allowing ANY IDENTIFIED opinion in most programming. The use of cocked eyebrows, snarky language and other such methods was an unquantifiable tool of the LEFT-leaning media.
The firestorm that erupted with Bernard Goldberg & Edward Morrisey’s 2001 book “Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News”, demonstrated how hard the LEFTIST intelligentsia wanted the cloak of ‘objectivity’ while, in reality, moving ever further towards the LEFT. Having open that curtain to show the manipulation by the ‘Alphabet’ networks, now studies such as this one attempt to convince us that the bias is on the conservatives, in that they tend towards ignoring the ‘Established Media’. Gee, I am just appalled at this REPREHENSIBLE behavior!
NOT!
This prerogative use to be the sole domain of NPR, NYTimes, WaPost and the rest of the MSM
What a crock!
Everyone knows exactly who the true hyper-partisans are: the Democrats and Mainstream Media (but I repeat myself).
Communist tactics here:
20. False evidence. Whenever possible, introduce new facts or clues designed and manufactured to conflict with opponent presentations as useful tools to neutralize sensitive issues or impede resolution. This works best when the crime was designed with contingencies for the purpose, and the facts cannot be easily separated from the fabrications.
22. Manufacture a new truth. Create your own expert(s), group(s), author(s), leader(s) or influence existing ones willing to forge new ground via scientific, investigative, or social research or testimony which concludes favorably. In this way, if you must actually address issues, you can do so authoritatively.
https://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/the-25-rules-of-disinformation/
Drudge is not a news source. He mostly just has links to interesting bits of news that would otherwise get buried.
Yes, people find links to stories on Drudge, but when they then post it and talk about it on twitter or Facebook, they post the link to the story, not to Drudge. Drudge then becomes invisible to the people who try to track down where people get their info from.
The Internet has been a vital factor in the growth of right-wing news.
Traditional print and broadcast media is expensive. It requires lots of $$$ to reach an audience. This means you have to have lots of high-paying advertisers, from big companies hawking products to large segments of the population. These companies are very vulnerable to threats of boycotts from Leftist groups.
Internet journalism is cheap. You don't need much money to reach a large audience, especially when that audience comes to you, rather than you needing to reach out. In the Right's journalistic ecosystem, once you arrive anywhere (Drudge, FreeRepublic, Breitbart) you get linked to the rest of the network. Any source that comes out with good reporting (e.g. Conservative Treehouse) gets widely quoted and linked to.
They still can’t believe that Hillary could possibly have lost to Trump by anything other than nefarious means, including a biased right wing media. LOL! Since the biased left wing media is MUCH larger, that argument only makes Hillary look that much worse!
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