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Post by Credo on Apr 28, 2019 19:53:21 GMT -8
I thought this topic could use its own thread (separate from the Liberal Mindset) to distinguish examples specific to media coverage itself.
Here's a good example to kick it off: for almost two years we've been subject (and endlessly on TOB) to the slander that Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremacists "fine people" in the wake of the Charlottesville tragedy of 2017. Joe Biden even included this worn-out lie in his campaign roll-out video last Thursday. So I'll give Jake Tapper credit where credit is due for finally conceding that this was not true.
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Post by Credo on Apr 28, 2019 21:34:17 GMT -8
The media reaction to the Poway synagogue shooting is utterly predictable...and sad.
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Post by Credo on Apr 28, 2019 22:01:07 GMT -8
Imagine the sh_t storm if a newspaper in 2015 had printed a cartoon of the Supreme Leader of Iran leading around a blind and turban-wearing Barack Obama.
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Post by RSM789 on Apr 29, 2019 7:19:01 GMT -8
Jake Tapper seems to me to be the kind of guy who is uncomfortable with CNN's bias, but goes along to get along. He would probably be more free to say what he wanted to if he worked at Fox. He would obviously be left of center, but would not have to worry when he disagreed with the networks bias.
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Post by Credo on Apr 29, 2019 21:02:29 GMT -8
And the members of the mainstream media call Trump the narcissist? And what in God's name are they doing to their kids?
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Post by Credo on Apr 29, 2019 23:13:13 GMT -8
The media talking heads want Trump to "take responsibility" for an anti-Semitic attack by a man who openly admitted he hates Trump because he is too supportive of Israel. And, by the way, Trump has a Jewish daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren.
They are completely unhinged.
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Post by Credo on Apr 30, 2019 21:39:24 GMT -8
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Post by Credo on Apr 30, 2019 22:23:46 GMT -8
I'll bet TOB is foaming at the mouth over this fake Washington Post story about an alleged "cover up" and "rift" between Mueller and A.G. Barr (Mueller's boss, by the way). I'd check it out myself, but I'm treating TOB like the Sirens in The Odyssey.
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Post by Credo on May 1, 2019 19:47:12 GMT -8
This is priceless--and typical of the media. An account of Biden's corruption somehow becomes about Trump.
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Post by Credo on May 1, 2019 22:44:12 GMT -8
What's the saying? If it weren't for double-standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.
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Post by Credo on May 1, 2019 22:46:47 GMT -8
Remember, that in the end it always comes down to this: Orange Man Bad
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Post by Credo on May 2, 2019 19:38:01 GMT -8
Banning people from social media is a sign of insecurity. Eh, JQP?
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Post by Credo on May 2, 2019 19:42:03 GMT -8
"Hate speech" is free speech.
And in what universe is Louis Farrakhan considered to be "far-right?"
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Post by RSM789 on May 3, 2019 13:15:48 GMT -8
Banning people from social media is a sign of insecurity. Eh, JQP? I don't have a problem with a company choosing who or what to ban on their website or app. After all, it is theirs. If they don't get to choose, who does? If a company goes the wrong way and bans people they shouldn't, it will catch up to them eventually, as we have seen with TOB. What we restrict the government from doing doesn't necessarily apply to the citizenry. Those folks banned from Facebook still can access the internet and make their own websites. Heck, they can even ban Mark Zuckerburg from their sites if they want |
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Post by Credo on May 4, 2019 20:14:15 GMT -8
Banning people from social media is a sign of insecurity. Eh, JQP? I don't have a problem with a company choosing who or what to ban on their website or app. After all, it is theirs. If they don't get to choose, who does? If a company goes the wrong way and bans people they shouldn't, it will catch up to them eventually, as we have seen with TOB. What we restrict the government from doing doesn't necessarily apply to the citizenry. Those folks banned from Facebook still can access the internet and make their own websites. Heck, they can even ban Mark Zuckerburg from their sites if they want True--private business should have more latitude to choose their policies and such. A couple of points worth considering, though: 1. TOB isn't Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube--platforms that are essentially the majority market in social media. They have become the de facto public square of the 21st century. They are inviting further government scrutiny which they may come to regret. 2. The recent bans of controversial public figures appear to be based in completely subjective assessments ("spreading hate", whatever that means?) not because of specific violations of their own published rules, and without any right of appeal. This is what JQP did to myself and others--a kind of public reputational execution. |
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