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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I’ll tackle the rest later. But this low hanging fruit has to be picked before pungency.
From Gore Vidal to George Carlin, to many others, the retort to your allegation one making my point is trafficking in conspiracy theorizing is:
I’m not. And one needn’t do so, as there are no conspiracies. Like actors act alike and complement each other.
In simple terms, it works in an appallingly simple fashion. A few thousand people who took too much poli-sci, had parents with enough enough bucks that they could pursue journalism, and lacked enough common sense to realize their progressive professors were charlatans, filter into the media ecosystem. They all think alike, speak alike, and reinforce each others’ unlettered understanding of how things work and ought to work. The entirety of academia is polluted with these losers who’ve never made a payroll and believe they know, and ought to profess to others, how everything should work.
They’re idiots, and they spawn idiocy in their wake, filling institutions with people who’ve never been required to meet metrics but think their sheltered views acquired in education and media confer a higher form of knowledge.
It happens on the right as well. But not as effectively or anywhere near as often as it does on the left.
It’s not a conspiracy. It’s collective self-reinforcing ignorance of the actual. An “ism.”
But people like tribes. They want to belong. Progs to the left, MAGA to the right, stuck in the middle with who? Not you.
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If you want to have a conversation about the ways in which the media is warped, I'm down. You're complaining about the way the world was fifty years ago, when there weren't many newspapers or TV stations in most places. That world is long gone, and media is a competitive business, with a very immediate grasp of how many viewers or readers each story gets. The idea that media is full of people who haven't been required to meet metrics, is laughably wrong, and dates you like a dinosaur.
Your model of media bias completely misses the interests of ownership and management and their role in shaping coverage, as if the people who run media conglomerates just hand over the keys to the shop to lefty Ivy graduates. CNN took a big lurch away from the left because Christ Licht answered to libertarian billionaire John Malone. I would wager that you don't notice things like this because they don't irritate you.
