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Role of the Media

Is this the one where people vote for what is "quality news?" That's got to be pretty easy for the bots to manipulate.
 
Nothing to worry about, Facebook is bringing in Republicans to evaluate its anti-Republican bias.

Exclusive: Facebook commits to civil rights audit, political bias review

The conservative bias advising partnership will be led by former Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, along with his team at Covington and Burling, a Washington law firm.

Kyl will examine concerns about alleged liberal bias on Facebook, internally and on its services. They will get feedback directly from conservative groups and advise Facebook on the best way to work with these groups moving forward.

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative public policy think tank, will convene meetings on these issues with Facebook executives. Last week the group brought in tech policy expert Klon Kitchen to host an event with Facebook's head of global policy management, Monika Bickert.
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SC DEAC said:
Aaaaannnnnnnddddd, Sailor with the Breitbart article. About fake news. C'mon dude, don't be so gullible.
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Breitbart isn't fake news. It is incredibly biased news, but not fake. Pretty much exactly on the same level as Huffpo.
 
Painter is the commencement speaker at a law school up here in a few weeks. I think it will be an interesting speech - especially now that the's running for Senate.
 
Study finds 5,000 people may have died from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Cable news focused on Roseanne instead.
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The Roseanne to Puerto Rico coverage ratios are; for Foxnews, 146:1; for CNN, 24:1, and for MSNBC, 10:1.

OGBoards post rations would probably look pretty similar if we include the Bill Maher and Sam Bee sidetracks, but that might just mean we all agree on Puerto Rico.
 
The Media's Undeniable Pro-Trump Bias

Through strategy, instinct, and horseshoe-up-his-ass blind luck, Trump has abused the media into grading him on the steepest of curves and giving him the benefit of the doubt when he has proven time and again he deserves nothing but the most extreme scrutiny. Trump is employing a strategy that might be familiar to coaches of inferior middle school basketball teams: Foul your opponents on every play, because, by human nature, referees are not equipped to blow the whistle on every play for fear of seeming biased. They are going to let some plays go by. In politics, journalists are the referees. And because they give Trump a pass on so many of his fouls, he avoids scrutiny that politicians who play by the rules would be subjected to regardless of ideology.
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Take his history of sexual assault. Over a dozen women have come forward to credibly accuse Trump of groping and kissing them without consent. But because they spoke out before the election, it is considered old news in many corners of the media. When Ronan Farrow broke news about Trump’s consensual affairs, one fact stood out: Trump approached those women at the same location, and using the same modus operandi, that Summer Zervos described in recounting the time Trump assaulted her. Here was incredible corroborating evidence that her allegation is true, yet because Zervos claims are old news, Trump hasn’t been pressed to address them since Farrow’s story ran, and his history of assault has faded from the discourse.
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But here’s the thing: If the leader of the country is lying 100 percent of the time, then the coverage of his comments needs to be 100 percent negative. Trump uses the sense that coverage of the president needs to be balanced to avoid accountability. It’s why pundits lavish praise on him anytime he gives a speech that doesn’t include conspiratorial race-baiting, and have been quick to praise him for a nascent diplomatic entreaty with North Korea that, by any relative measure, has been messy and ad hoc at best.
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He benefited greatly by an over abundance of media attention, mostly negative or sensational, throughout the campaign. He is shamelessly artful in turning negative news into a positive.
 
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