• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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    What’s amusing is that for decades, conservatives have been howling about the “liberal media”.

    It was absurd when you had about 3 major corporate networks and a cable station like CNN doing all of the gatekeeping, but maybe a bit of diversity among the various papers - but it was hard to really tell people about the absurdity of that without the internet.

    But now it’s absolutely cartoonish to claim there is a “liberal media”. And yet the right still do it.

    New York Times is probably one of the last papers with the resources and the tradition of at least doing something akin to reality-based reporting, but they love to play the both-sides game. To the right, though, they represent some far-left fringe, LOL.

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      conservatives have been howling about the “liberal media”.

      That’s because they’re brain dead. “The hat is red, the brain is dead.” And yes, some are malicious little pricks that knowingly spread bullshit for bait, trolling, and likes/subscriptions for their blather factories.

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      It’s honestly one of the most damaging and insidious things the media has successfully convinced the average American of

      The NY Times has been carrying water for the right at the very least since the war in Iraq.

      It’s insane how the right has been able to convince people that they’re “far left.”

      The Overton Window in the US is so unbelievably far to the right.