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I hate to break this to you, but you don’t have too be some leftist to recognized the bias in articles and publications.

The idea that bias ONLY happens on the left is laughable.

Epoch Times, Newsmax, GateWay Pundit, are insanely right wing biased... The latter two, are honestly not even worth citing as sources, other than very very rare occasions, as their standards and accuracy are horrible. Epoch is decidedly better, but to say it isn’t right wing biased is living in denial.

Yes, CNN, MSNBC, and the major networks are all left wing biased, to differing degrees, and Fox News, which is right wing biased, is honestly more so GOP Establishment biased.

Bias is in everything, the key is to recognize it, and process information accordingly.

The pure reality is, that yellow journalism is nothing new, and that what is passed as “news” today, is really just entertainment and propaganda. The various outlets have discovered they make more money telling a particular segment things that confirm their own biases, rather than trying to tell (as best as possible) the unbiased truth.

I tell my segment what they want to hear, I get 2-3M viewers daily to tune in, so they can hear and see things that confirm their own world view. I actually try my best to tell the truth without bias, I’ll get 1M viewers a day if that.

So they have segmented out the market and pander to a particular segment, telling them what they want to hear.

That’s “news” today.

I hate to break this to you, but you don’t have too be some leftist to recognized the bias in articles and publications.

I've been wanting to find a reason to repost a video from two years ago that shows the proliferation of common media stories across the local media landscape.

This video is about global corruption (I didn't have the desire to watch the whole thing), but there is a 2 minute segment right at the beginning that really opened my eyes to how controlled the local media stations are.

Here is a link to a Rumble video, set to start at the relevant point in the video. Watch it to the 7:00 minute mark (the end of Brian Stelter's comment).

Two minutes to expose local media control: https://rumble.com/vmxjh8-the-whole-story-of-covid-and-our-world-affairs-right-now..html?start=296

-PJ

I wish FR would pin this comment to the top of each thread. It has gotten so bad that no matter how poor the evidence is for something, FR treats it as true if it supports the narrative, and treats it as false if it doesn't.

FR has become easy to manipulate using "guilt by association" and ad hominem attacks.

After 911, the sites policy was essentially what is now called "neo-con" and not supporting the war in Iraq pretty much got you banned. Now we are all expected to toe the line on Ukraine, Trump, and a myriad of other issues that we probably would have been expected to have the opposite opinion on 20 years ago.

Many of these issues aren't even ideological issues, they are issues that are in the mainstream and so for some reason we are obligated to take the opposite position. There is also the general consensus that conspiracy theories are true if they are against the Right or Republicans and as long as the charges are against the left or support the ideological position of the posters here, no evidence needs to be provided.