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asdf21 commented on Resignation Letter   bariweiss.com/resignation... · Posted by u/kirillzubovsky
joshuamorton · 5 years ago
An academic source that can describe a pre-propoosed methodology and doesn't have the appearance of being explicitly anti-CNN.

You can't seriously think that "the only people we can believe are people who openly call CNN hacks". That's just an admission that you only believe people who agree with you.

Put another way: there was a recent article on HN about using sources who you had uncertainty about, because those sources give you the most information (in a bayesian sense, they cause you to update your priors the most). The source listed gives me no reason to update my priors, because I could predict the result from the source.

asdf21 · 5 years ago
Lol, what?

So were you able to find a "academic source" that audited the media in this way?

asdf21 commented on Resignation Letter   bariweiss.com/resignation... · Posted by u/kirillzubovsky
joshuamorton · 5 years ago
You're citing an openly right wing media watchdog whose goal is to perpetuate the narrative that right wing ideas are suppressed. It calls CNN "hacks" in it's headlines. That's not a reliable source.
asdf21 · 5 years ago
Exactly who else is going to cover the % of negative media coverage on Trump, in your mind, other than a "right wing" source?

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asdf21 commented on Resignation Letter   bariweiss.com/resignation... · Posted by u/kirillzubovsky
horsemessiah · 5 years ago
This is simply not true. Looking at the three mainstream cable channels (Fox, CNN, MSNBC) Fox hardly ever critical, MSNBC is almost exclusively critical, and CNN is pretty in between. Fox is by far the most popular of these three.

Similarly, the NYTimes and Washington Post are usually pretty critical of Trump (unless he's bombing people, in which case they love him) and the WSJ are somewhere in between.

Then, consider that Americans are increasingly not getting their news from these sources and podcasts, blogs, social media, etc. are becoming the primary source of news for many people.

All this to say, to claim 97% of media is critical of Trump is a wild fantasy of victimhood that has no basis in reality.

asdf21 · 5 years ago
Also, you're completely wrong about Fox. I don't generally watch mainstream news period, but one day it was on in a hotel, and like you, I expected neutral to positive coverage on Trump.

It was just the opposite, like 20 minutes straight of "Russia Gate," just endlessly hyping up and trying to validate the scandal. If Fox is a friend of Trump's, he doesn't need enemies.

asdf21 commented on Resignation Letter   bariweiss.com/resignation... · Posted by u/kirillzubovsky
horsemessiah · 5 years ago
This is simply not true. Looking at the three mainstream cable channels (Fox, CNN, MSNBC) Fox hardly ever critical, MSNBC is almost exclusively critical, and CNN is pretty in between. Fox is by far the most popular of these three.

Similarly, the NYTimes and Washington Post are usually pretty critical of Trump (unless he's bombing people, in which case they love him) and the WSJ are somewhere in between.

Then, consider that Americans are increasingly not getting their news from these sources and podcasts, blogs, social media, etc. are becoming the primary source of news for many people.

All this to say, to claim 97% of media is critical of Trump is a wild fantasy of victimhood that has no basis in reality.

asdf21 · 5 years ago
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2019/11/12/i...

96% Negative Spin from the main 3 networks.

>Silent on Economic Success: Despite record highs in the stock market and a fifty-year low in the unemployment rate, the President’s handling of the economy was given a stingy 4 minutes, 6 seconds of airtime during these six weeks, or less than one percent of all Trump administration news (645 minutes).

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asdf21 commented on We are all prisoners of groupthink   unherd.com/2020/07/why-th... · Posted by u/pseudolus
gerbal · 5 years ago
That's not true at all. This sounds a lot like the random anti BLM propaganda you see on facebook.

The core tenants of BLM are that CURRENTLY black communities are policed in a radically different way than white communities. BLM activists want everyone to have a just and fair policing.

asdf21 · 5 years ago
No, it's nothing new... here is an article about the same thing from 2017... unless they have changed, BLM is a separatist movement.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/black-lives-matter-ra...

asdf21 commented on We are all prisoners of groupthink   unherd.com/2020/07/why-th... · Posted by u/pseudolus
jchook · 5 years ago
Imagine using your career position as a platform to argue that Black Americans should use “separate but equal” facilities in 2020.

Should you get fired? Or is that free speech?

asdf21 · 5 years ago
>Imagine using your career position as a platform to argue that Black Americans should use “separate but equal” facilities in 2020.

Isn't that one of the core tenants of the BLM campaigns? "Separate but equal" community policing for African American neighborhoods..

asdf21 commented on We are all prisoners of groupthink   unherd.com/2020/07/why-th... · Posted by u/pseudolus
wavefunction · 5 years ago
>You can't acknowledge they are male.

I feel that you're entitled to your opinion that transwomen are men but why shouldn't you be subject to the opinion of other people? If Reddit decides it's not the sort of content they want to allow on their site then I see nothing wrong with them removing it. You're free to register transwomen-are-men.com or get-the-blm-facts.com where you can discuss your beliefs to your heart's content with others who share your opinion. Finally I would point out that "womaness" is a mental and social construct so I'm not sure what facts there are to quibble about. If people were claiming that transwomen are of the female sex then that is obviously factually incorrect.

asdf21 · 5 years ago
>You're free to register transwomen-are-men.com or get-the-blm-facts.com

For now... there have been other domains whose registrars have been repeatedly banned / revoked for "hate speech", Daily Stormer comes to mind.

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