Wrangor
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Its always humorous to see the Left misunderstand the root of the issue in this dilemma. The media's conscious choice to depart from unbiased reporting that started this mess. The right capitalized on it with Fox News beginning in the late 90's, and ever since then it has been a battle to the bottom. CNN has attempted in some ways to stay left/center, but lately (especially this election) they shifted completely left (or perhaps more categorically, they shifted Hillary).
This is from election night, from CNN. I remember watching this live and thinking, this isn't what news reporting should be. Ana starts out great by listing facts, and analyzing potential election results, and then she completely loses it the last 30 seconds of the clip. I don't speak spanish so one of you who does will have to translate for me (took 4 labored years of German at WFU), but she ends with some sort of excited spanish shoutout (perhaps a call to action for latino voters?). Not sure, but this is just a small sample of what the right has seen for years.
Eventually you get tired of that. Eventually you start your own biased network. Eventually people further to the right get tired of Fox News and decide they need to creep further from the center.
But do not be fooled, it started with the mass media's systematic departure from unbiased news reporting.
post script: I think Trump ended up with a higher latino vote than Romney, which again shows a narrative pushed by the MSM that never existed. They simply assumed it existed because it fit their preconceived notion of how THEY would react to Trump
This is from election night, from CNN. I remember watching this live and thinking, this isn't what news reporting should be. Ana starts out great by listing facts, and analyzing potential election results, and then she completely loses it the last 30 seconds of the clip. I don't speak spanish so one of you who does will have to translate for me (took 4 labored years of German at WFU), but she ends with some sort of excited spanish shoutout (perhaps a call to action for latino voters?). Not sure, but this is just a small sample of what the right has seen for years.
Eventually you get tired of that. Eventually you start your own biased network. Eventually people further to the right get tired of Fox News and decide they need to creep further from the center.
But do not be fooled, it started with the mass media's systematic departure from unbiased news reporting.
post script: I think Trump ended up with a higher latino vote than Romney, which again shows a narrative pushed by the MSM that never existed. They simply assumed it existed because it fit their preconceived notion of how THEY would react to Trump
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