OF COURSE THE PRESS IS BIASED

boblonsberry.com ^ | 05/03/17 | Bob Lonsberry

[SMARTY]

Absolutely.

At this point, given their truly dishonorable and disingenuous conduct...along with their lukewarm support (if any) for the President, ‘Republicans’ have covered themselves with s*&t!

I don't have any use for them. I pitch every single piece of mail they send me....un-opened!!!

[SMARTY]

Ryan is a gaping rectum! I wish he’d GO

[Billthedrill]

Lonsberry has plenty of historical evidence to back up his assertion - some newspapers (that's really what we're talking about here) even put it in their mastheads: Times Democrat, for example. But those newspapers had competition equally biased the other direction, and that is no longer the case. Does anyone honestly still consider Fox a corrective against such machines as CNN? If so, they need another look.

Part of the problem is news pools such as AP and UPI. That doesn't have to be a deliberate bias (although with AP it is) but a natural consequence of only a small number of sources. Yet not every small-town daily can afford to keep stringers in Moscow or Adelaide. Something of the sort is going to be pretty much necessary or you won't have much in the way of international news.

But a 95% slant toward the Democrat party is not to be explained away quite so easily - that is an insane proportion and is indicative that some other dynamic is going on. What that dynamic is we can speculate all day over, but in fact, that dynamic has just changed.

It has changed because everyone with a cell phone camera and a tower connection is now a news stringer. A small-town paper doesn't have to pay a stringer in Caracas if they have a million volunteers already on site at the riots. That's a game changer.

It means, of course, that the filters used to make sense of it all are no longer in place, which can make the news impossibly confusing. It also means that control of those filters no longer confers the sort of political power it has in the past. And it's one reason so many political organizations are so desperate to apply their own controls to the Internet.

[foreverfree]

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