timschochet
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Not as originally reported no.Do you want me to accept the NBC deal in Columbus?
Not as originally reported no.Do you want me to accept the NBC deal in Columbus?
Well how many saw the original story and ran with it? LeBron James has almost 50 MILLION followers and he had no problem running with the story.Not as originally reported no.
Leave it to tim to make media bias a purely right wing issue.Anyway, I'm not getting hung up in this thread. This sounds like another one of your harangues about media bias and the MSM. We do this to death every day. I've written extensively on these boards about the danger of only watching the right-wing news outlets. They're utterly preposterous. It's fact-free stuff in right-wing land. But the MSM is barely better. When an event's facts counters their accepted narrative, they shove the story into the narrative like a square peg in a round hole. Or they omit facts.
It's at crucial levels. You should ask "What is the price of the mainstream media's need to put things into leftist narratives?" Because it's a high price to pay, IMO.
Exactly. This x 1,000.The danger is blindly accepting propaganda. I am becoming more and more convinced the tech giants control of the distribution of information is the biggest threat to losing our freedom of speech that we have ever faced. And this idea that we must accept what the media tells us is utter nonsense straight out of the mouths of the likes of Joseph Goebbels.
Tim’s belief that there is no Liberal bias in the MSM is one of the most severe cases of cognitive dissonance I’ve ever seen in my life. Honestly it’s embarrassing. One thing we can all agree on is that no amount of polling or studies will change his mind. He will carry this viewpoint to his grave, come hell or high water.I can honestly say I've never seen anyone fight so hard FOR the MSM. If we didn't know any better, one would think Tim literally works for the NYTimes, WaPo or CNN.
If the MSM were to actually start producing real truth and facts (and just the facts, ma'am), my guess is the Liberals would be up in arms and outraged and they would then be calling the MSM "Fake News". That's how different it would be. The left has had cover and protection and "their truth" for so long, I don't think they realize what real news is anymore. To them, the current MSM IS real news. It ain't.
There's a lot to this.I watch "right wing" media mainly because they report what the "left wing" media refuses to report.
If you really watch, you will see that this is what they spend most of their time doing....reporting what the left wing will not report....or pointing out the parts of their reported stories that were "cut because of time constraints".
What sources do you consume and trust?More utter nonsense as I know you accuse me of this. I haven't consumed any mainstream media since January 6th. My exposure to it is mostly in this forum. My obsession with it is only because how horrible it at misleading people and drumming up the race war.. it is nothing but a cancer to our society.
You would be incorrect. Tons of good information and discussion there.Separate issue but I strongly disagree with this take.
Does she tell them to watch Fox News and CNN?I just wrote how she is different- she doesn’t tell her watchers not to believe the nightly news.
I don't consume any source. Usually if a story interests me from something I see here, I will search out facts from any source. Look for facts, ignore rhetoric and conclusions. Then are skeptical of facts. Try to verify facts and fill in holes that seem to not make sense with the given narrative being presented.What sources do you consume and trust?
I made no mention of youMore utter nonsense as I know you accuse me of this. I haven't consumed any mainstream media since January 6th. My exposure to it is mostly in this forum. My obsession with it is only because how horrible it at misleading people and drumming up the race war.. it is nothing but a cancer to our society.This is a wonderful question, but just take a brief perusal of damn near any thread here and there are people absolutely obsessed with our ####ty media pissing and moaning about it 24x7 all the while willfully consuming it like a crackhead on payday.
um....no. Even the usuals are squashed out pretty quickly when they come in with their nonsense.Allow me to express my objection to Ivan’s assertion. Yes there is very good information there if you are a discerning reader. Yes sometimes the information is more complete than you’ll get in the mainstream media, and sometimes it even contradicts the mainstream media (though not all that often.) All this is to the good.
But it’s surrounded by an incredible amount of ignorance, science skepticism, and politicizing which makes the thread unreadable at times. So no, it’s not superior to the MSM. It’s far far worse IMO.
And that's part of the problem. If I'm so lazy that I'm going with McD's when a whole food farmer's market is right next door because I don't care enough to make that small effort to see what is right next door, then that's on me too. The internet is FULL of great resources. Hell, people throw them out here all the time. PLENTY of "just the fact ma'am" sources out there, but it MIGHT be three clicks instead of twoI'm lucky I have IPTV. Most others are offered McDonalds or BK for options, so that is what they know.
You're thinking of the PSF version of the covid thread. The FFA version has been great and contains mostly none of the stuff you mentioned.Allow me to express my objection to Ivan’s assertion. Yes there is very good information there if you are a discerning reader. Yes sometimes the information is more complete than you’ll get in the mainstream media, and sometimes it even contradicts the mainstream media (though not all that often.) All this is to the good.
But it’s surrounded by an incredible amount of ignorance, science skepticism, and politicizing which makes the thread unreadable at times. So no, it’s not superior to the MSM. It’s far far worse IMO.
What percentage of Americans a) spend the time to seek out these types of sources, b) are capable of parsing through competing information, c) arriving at a rational perspective from this sort of exercise?You're thinking of the PSF version of the covid thread. The FFA version has been great and contains mostly none of the stuff you mentioned.
Who is attacking Biden?I think Tim is drawing the ire of posters because the attacks are not sticking to Biden, et al
We all need a consistent, reliable source of accurate information. But I don't believe it's a question of ability. It's a question of desire. Hell, i've even done the work for my family, but they like their shows that fit their narrative. It's like they're in some sort of "#### it....I'm old and don't care about challenging myself anymore" mentality. My BIL and I talk about this all the time comparing the parents who raised us to the parents we are now taking care of. They couldn't be more opposite.What percentage of Americans a) spend the time to seek out these types of sources, b) are capable of parsing through competing information, c) arriving at a rational perspective from this sort of exercise?You're thinking of the PSF version of the covid thread. The FFA version has been great and contains mostly none of the stuff you mentioned.
I seriously doubt most of my extended family are capable of doing what you suggest. They need a consistent, reliable source of accurate info.
Maybe I’m jaded. Maybe I’m too pessimistic. Maybe I’m flat out wrong.
You're thinking of the PSF version of the covid thread. The FFA version has been great and contains mostly none of the stuff you mentioned.
I can't speak for others, but he's drawing my ire because he's wrong.I think Tim is drawing the ire of posters because the attacks are not sticking to Biden, et al
Most people are unwilling to do this sort of stuff. These are the folks who are most harmed by the MSM imploding upon itself.What percentage of Americans a) spend the time to seek out these types of sources, b) are capable of parsing through competing information, c) arriving at a rational perspective from this sort of exercise?
I seriously doubt most of my extended family are capable of doing what you suggest. They need a consistent, reliable source of accurate info.
Maybe I’m jaded. Maybe I’m too pessimistic. Maybe I’m flat out wrong.
I’ll take my chances not watching msm lying to me so I possibly hear the real story somewhere else. I’m not a Republican and didn’t vote for trump.For years now I have warned my conservative friends, both in this forum and elsewhere, not to reject the mainstream media: If you find errors, fine, point them out. If you find bias at times, fine, point it out. But do NOT replace the MSM with right wing talk and right wing journals. It’s dangerous to reject reality, and there would, I predicted, be a huge price to pay. Now we are paying it:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/04/05/more-than-half-of-republicans-believe-voter-fraud-claims-and-most-still-support-trump-poll-finds/amp/
A majority of Republicans believe Biden stole the election against all evidence.
No disagreement hereMost people are unwilling to do this sort of stuff. These are the folks who are most harmed by the MSM imploding upon itself.
What take do you not agree with, that the MSM has liberal bias? For The NY Times anyway, their own editors have owned it for decades, so you might as well also.With regard to this question: since I don’t agree with your take, obviously I don’t think there is ANY price to pay. But- in the first two posts I offered 3 real time examples of the price of rejecting the MSM: believing Trump won the election, rejection of COVID solutions, rejection of climate change. These aren’t theoretical; they’re actually happening. If you have real time examples to prove your point above please provide them.
If you click into my link each of the above has links to the assertions given.New York Times Editors' Comments on Bias
In 2004, Daniel Okrent, the then-public editor of The New York Times, wrote an editorial in which he explained that when covering some social issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage, the paper did in fact have a liberal bias.
The New York Times public editor (ombudsman) Elizabeth Spayd wrote in 2016 that "Conservatives and even many moderates, see in The Times a blue-state worldview."
Times public editor Arthur Brisbane wrote in 2012, "When The Times covers a national presidential campaign, I have found that the lead editors and reporters are disciplined about enforcing fairness and balance, and usually succeed in doing so. Across the paper's many departments, though, so many share a kind of political and cultural progressivism — for lack of a better term — that this worldview virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times."
Times executive editor Dean Baquet stated, "We have to be really careful that people feel like they can see themselves in The New York Times. I want us to be perceived as fair and honest to the world, not just a segment of it. It's a really difficult goal. Do we pull it off all the time? No.""
Since Eisenhower ran for president in 1956, the New York Times has not endorsed a single Republican nominee for president, but has endorsed every other Democratic candidate.
Fair enough.You're thinking of the PSF version of the covid thread. The FFA version has been great and contains mostly none of the stuff you mentioned.
There's such a disconnect from reality with people who consume such editorialized and opinionated media. To see the attack by many on the Trump Right against FOXs news desk (not the Hannity style shows which people treat as news shows) is amazing.For years now I have warned my conservative friends, both in this forum and elsewhere, not to reject the mainstream media: If you find errors, fine, point them out. If you find bias at times, fine, point it out. But do NOT replace the MSM with right wing talk and right wing journals. It’s dangerous to reject reality, and there would, I predicted, be a huge price to pay. Now we are paying it:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/04/05/more-than-half-of-republicans-believe-voter-fraud-claims-and-most-still-support-trump-poll-finds/amp/
A majority of Republicans believe Biden stole the election against all evidence.
While I agree that it is dumb to believe the election was stolen when there is no credible evidence showing this, the rejection of the mainstream media is not just a conservative thing. I know many centrists like myself and some liberals who do not trust the MSM. And you know why? Because they cannot be trusted.And nobody here has countered the original point of this thread: these folks believe the election was stolen. They’re not getting that from the mainstream media. If they listened to the MSM they would know that Trump’s claims are bogus. But they’re not listening, they don’t trust it. These are the consequences of distrusting the MSM. It’s a catastrophe.
You sound like a 2 year old screaming that your opinion is the only right opinion and everyone else is wrong for not agreeing with you. Perhaps the MSM should quit fabricating stories, quit twisting the facts, and just report the news. But they will never do that because they have their own biases they want to push. Anyone with intelligence can see that.And nobody here has countered the original point of this thread: these folks believe the election was stolen. They’re not getting that from the mainstream media. If they listened to the MSM they would know that Trump’s claims are bogus. But they’re not listening, they don’t trust it. These are the consequences of distrusting the MSM. It’s a catastrophe.
Lester Holt basically came out and told us they were going to start reporting only one side of the narrative.Do you want me to accept the NBC deal in Columbus?
Tim’s belief that there is no Liberal bias in the MSM is one of the most severe cases of cognitive dissonance I’ve ever seen in my life. Honestly it’s embarrassing. One thing we can all agree on is that no amount of polling or studies will change his mind. He will carry this viewpoint to his grave, come hell or high water.
Embarrassing?Tim’s belief that there is no Liberal bias in the MSM is one of the most severe cases of cognitive dissonance I’ve ever seen in my life. Honestly it’s embarrassing. One thing we can all agree on is that no amount of polling or studies will change his mind. He will carry this viewpoint to his grave, come hell or high water.
Did you read that link?Embarrassing?
You may find it so, but it’s not like it’s an outlandish point of view. It’s backed by plenty of evidence and study:
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/14/eaay9344
You trust people who self-correct after getting caught? You don't know what he's talking about because you talk to much and don't listen enough. Plenty here are explaining why they can't be trusted. You just don't want to hear it.And here’s more:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/claims-of-ideological-bias-among-the-media-may-be-overblown-135617
Again you may disagree with this but it’s a legitimate point of view based on much evidence.
My own POV is a little more nuanced. I think the majority of mainstream news journalists are liberal, and that this can show up in the way that they present the news, more unconsciously than anything else.
Nonetheless I strongly believe most of them are extremely fair (sometimes overly so) and can be trusted. When someone I really respect like @Ghost Rider says the media can’t be trusted, I honestly don’t know what the hell he’s talking about. I’m sure he and others will point to stories they got wrong, like the Ohio shooting or the way Brian Sicknick died, but how would we even know they got the story wrong if they didn’t bother to correct themselves? Has Breitbart ever corrected themselves? Or Hannity? That would honestly surprise me. And this is another reason the MSM can be trusted: because they self-correct.
Ummmm...Isnt that the same study?And here’s more:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/claims-of-ideological-bias-among-the-media-may-be-overblown-135617
Again you may disagree with this but it’s a legitimate point of view based on much evidence.
My own POV is a little more nuanced. I think the majority of mainstream news journalists are liberal, and that this can show up in the way that they present the news, more unconsciously than anything else.
Nonetheless I strongly believe most of them are extremely fair (sometimes overly so) and can be trusted. When someone I really respect like @Ghost Rider says the media can’t be trusted, I honestly don’t know what the hell he’s talking about. I’m sure he and others will point to stories they got wrong, like the Ohio shooting or the way Brian Sicknick died, but how would we even know they got the story wrong if they didn’t bother to correct themselves? Has Breitbart ever corrected themselves? Or Hannity? That would honestly surprise me. And this is another reason the MSM can be trusted: because they self-correct.
Is it? Could be. It was a big story when it came out.Ummmm...Isnt that the same study?
From Link 2...Is it? Could be. It was a big story when it came out.
from link 1In the summer of 2017, we visited the website or Facebook page of every newspaper in the United States to gather email addresses of political journalists and editors. We collected email addresses for over 13,000 political journalists. We surveyed those journalists and combined what we learned with a separate analysis of newspaper content.
Using this site, a team of four researchers visited the website or Facebook page of every newspaper in each state and searched for the email addresses of political journalists and editors between May 2017 and July 2017. In many cases, this team was able to identify journalists who were explicitly assigned to a political beat. However, in the case that a specific reporter was not explicitly designated as being a political reporter, all reporters were collected. This process resulted in a sampling frame of just more than 13,500 journalists with working email addresses.
See this is great, and I think all that most who are arguing about news sources would want from the majority of people. Trouble is people seem to post and argue like CNN and Fox are the only places to get info from, and to avoid those you have to go to even worse places.That there's a price to rejecting the mainstream media. Maybe we have differing definitions of "reject." I still turn to the mainstream media for basic facts, though I do that less and less given the coverage of the Georgia voting law and the recent Columbus shooting. I've totally given up.
I'll only allow AP, Reuters, or any other factual dispatch into my world now. Long gone are the days of assuming any fact printed in the mainstream media. There better be another source verifying. If there is video of the incident, I want to see it firsthand. I also want to scour right-wing media as a counterbalance to that. Longform, AP and Reuters, and dispatches, generally from the WaPo. I haven't even scanned the New York Times in two years. That corporate entity should be embarrassed to call itself a news outlet. They're doing damage to the entire enterprise of journalism. To me, they're about at Fox News level. I've also done a decent job getting multiple points of view in my Twitter feed through whom I can get a quick an accurate take of the news.
That's it. That's all they've earned my trust for.
I'd ask you to consider why it is that many on the right have decided to reject the MSM. I think we both agree this wasn't always so, so something occurred to change it.And here’s more:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/claims-of-ideological-bias-among-the-media-may-be-overblown-135617
Again you may disagree with this but it’s a legitimate point of view based on much evidence.
My own POV is a little more nuanced. I think the majority of mainstream news journalists are liberal, and that this can show up in the way that they present the news, more unconsciously than anything else.
Nonetheless I strongly believe most of them are extremely fair (sometimes overly so) and can be trusted. When someone I really respect like @Ghost Rider says the media can’t be trusted, I honestly don’t know what the hell he’s talking about. I’m sure he and others will point to stories they got wrong, like the Ohio shooting or the way Brian Sicknick died, but how would we even know they got the story wrong if they didn’t bother to correct themselves? Has Breitbart ever corrected themselves? Or Hannity? That would honestly surprise me. And this is another reason the MSM can be trusted: because they self-correct.
I certainly think you make good points, and that the media has created some of this themselves. Do reasonable, thinking conservatives have a gripe against the media? At times they do. Absolutely.I'd ask you to consider why it is that many on the right have decided to reject the MSM. I think we both agree this wasn't always so, so something occurred to change it.
I don't watch Hannity for news but I can tell you as someone who did watch CNN for their news source in the past that I don't do that anymore. I think your view that most of the MSM are liberal but try to be fair was in fact the case for a long time. But I think those days are gone. CNN today bears no resemblance to the source I followed less than five years ago.
It is truly a shame people follow someone like Hannity for their news and don't take him as an opinion host, even though he openly will state that on his show that he is giving editorial and not news. I know people on the right who I feel make fools of themselves on social media believing some wild conspiracies. Sure, it reflects badly on them. I don't think low information people are rare no matter their leanings. But rather than blame them, I blame the ever increasing media bias for driving them to these places. Not everyone is going to go to the depths some here do to determine the real truth. Some people see a biased story, or the stories consistently being wrong on one side as opposed to the other, then that makes it easy for them to believe that someone like Hannity who told them the MSM was lying must now have been telling them the truth all along. The media themselves shouldn't just get a pass on responsibility for perpetuating this.
I agree most people will never put in the time necessary to collect enough perspectives to truly enable themselves to come up with an educated, nuanced opinion on most major stories.What percentage of Americans a) spend the time to seek out these types of sources, b) are capable of parsing through competing information, c) arriving at a rational perspective from this sort of exercise?
I seriously doubt most of my extended family are capable of doing what you suggest. They need a consistent, reliable source of accurate info.
Maybe I’m jaded. Maybe I’m too pessimistic. Maybe I’m flat out wrong.