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* Why knuckle-dragging right-wingnuts constant shrieking about "the media 'is' biaRudy Canoza
`* Re: Why knuckle-dragging right-wingnuts constant shrieking about "the media 'is'Klaus Schadenfreude
 `- Re: Why knuckle-dragging right-wingnuts constant shrieking about "the media 'is'Ted

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Subject: Why knuckle-dragging right-wingnuts constant shrieking about "the media 'is' biased" is such bullshit (it IS bullshit, of course)
From: Rudy Canoza
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The reason it's bullshit is all due to that one word: "is." Right-wingnuts
wrongly and stupidly and fuckwittedly believe that "the media" refers to a
distinct, unitary entity. That is bullshit. "Media" is the plural of "medium" —
the New York Times (the Gold Standard) is one news *medium*. The Washington Post
(also Gold Standard) is another, and CNN (same), NPR (same), WSJ (not quite the
same), NBC, et al., are others. Each is a news *medium*. Taken together, they
comprise "the media" — plural.

Where the right-wingnut knuckle-draggers fuck up (they always fuck up) is in
thinking that "the media" is a single unitary entity. They think that the
reporters and editors at all of them get together and decide on what "the" story
is going to be. That is simply bullshit. It doesn't happen. There is no
"collusion" among news journalists. Any one news medium will gleefully point out
an error in another. They compete rather than collude.

One big reason, maybe the biggest, why right-wingnuts screech about a "liberal
bias" in the news media – the diverse, not coordinated, competitive news media —
is that, as Stephen Colbert once pointed out, reality has a liberal bias. And
that's a true statement. The reason the news media have (not "has") a liberal
bias is that they report on facts, and facts = reality; facts = objective truth.
And we know that right-wingnuts hate facts. As I wrote the other day,
right-wingnuts prefer cheap, easy, childlike comforting lies to costly,
difficult, sometimes painful truth. ("Karen Bass personally drained the
reservoirs in Pacific Palisades. Gavin Newsom jailed homeowners who tried to
clear brush from behind their properties.")

Because the news media report facts, right-wingnuts consider them (not "it") to
be hopelessly biased to the far left. But the news media are nowhere *nearly* as
biased to the left as the knuckle-dragging right-wingnuts are in the opposite
direction. The reputable and responsible news media — all the ones I mentioned
above, and plenty more – are *much* closer to the center than are the screeching
right-wingnuts who blabber "the news media 'is' biased." The mainstream media
are not "communists" or even "socialists." None of the news media I mentioned
above are calling for a large-scale government takeover of the means of
production and distribution (which is the definition of socialism). Instead,
they push a social democracy agenda, and *not even* as much of one as what is
found in northern European countries, which are staunchly capitalist in their
economic organization, but which have generous social welfare benefits and
somewhat stricter regulations on the activities of private enterprise firms.
Note that even in healthcare, most European countries have private provision of
the services, but public financing; only the UK among large EU countries has
primarily government *provided*, as well as financed, healthcare (the staff of
the NHS are government employees).

The major news media keep their editorial positions *out* of their reporting.
That is just a fact (remember: facts = Kryptonite to knuckle-dragging
right-wingnuts). The mainstream news media are *not* biased at all in their
presentation of facts, and not nearly as much biased editorially as
knuckle-dragging right-wingnuts believe — fact.

Subject: Re: Why knuckle-dragging right-wingnuts constant shrieking about "the media 'is' biased" is such bullshit (it IS bullshit, of course)
From: Klaus Schadenfreude
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[Default] Rudy "Cunt Flaps" Canoza <rudy@phil.hendrie.con> typed:

>The major news media keep their editorial positions *out* of their reporting.

"Laugh laugh laugh laugh."
-Lee Harrison 1957-2012, RIP

Subject: Re: Why knuckle-dragging right-wingnuts constant shrieking about "the media 'is' biased" is such bullshit (it IS bullshit, of course)
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Klaus Schadenfreude wrote:

> [Default] Rudy "Cunt Flaps" Canoza <rudy@phil.hendrie.con> typed:
>
> > The major news media keep their editorial positions out of their
> > reporting.
>
> "Laugh laugh laugh laugh."
> -Lee Harrison 1957-2012, RIP

I wanna suck black ass.

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