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.
“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/
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!