leashyourkids wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
leashyourkids wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
That's probably because you agree with them.
No. You're overcompensating. Whereas most people are biased one way or the other, you seem to draw false equivalencies in the spirit of being "objective." IMO, you aren't being objective... you are going so far the other way, that you don't realize you're grasping at the other extreme.
Whether Conservatives like to admit it or not, Stewart very frequently hammered the left, even if it was less than he hammered the right. The main target of his sketches was the mainstream Liberal media that you are poking at. While I would call Stewart "liberal," one of his central messages was that normal people in America aren't political activists... they just live their lives while people on both extremes drive all the political activism.
You know how Rush Limbaugh is, and if you think the above description is comparable, we'll have to disagree.
Stewart tried to put on a face of objectivity to cover his clear hard partisanship and he became a spokesman for a generation, as opposed to Limbaugh who is a clownish radio entertainer who appeals only to goofs who already have the crazy ideas he spews. Nobody sees Limbaugh or Hannity as journalists, but I know MANY people between 20 and 40 who get their news from
The Daily Show.
And again, when I say "nobody" that means nobody I know. If I lived in Humboldt, Iowa it might be different.
Your last sentence pretty much negates what you said, though. You know.00000000000001% of the U.S. population. I can promise you there are millions of people who think the word of Hannity and Limbaugh is gospel. They don't think they are journalists... they think they are more than that... they think they are speaking truth to power that the journalists won't report.
But we're talking about media bias. All you have to do is look at the electoral map. The media centers are all blue.
I have no problem with "fake news". If every Millennial thinks
The Daily Show is journalism and votes accordingly, we get what we deserve. It's the so-called liberals who are railing against "fake news". I'm certain they wouldn't be if Clinton had won. But here's the thing. They're not censoring fake news on the major social media platforms. They're only censoring the fake news (and certain viewpoints) that they don't like. It's anything but even-handed. Milo is banned from Twitter but there are a bunch of Imams that use the platform to call for death to apostates. That's fucked up.
Now, you and I can sit here and say, "Goddamn hillbillies are too fucking dumb to recognize fake news. We smart liberals
get The Onion. We're educated and understand parody. These rednecks need protection! Zuckerberg and Jack need to protect them from their own stupidity." But that's exactly the kind of elitist bullshit that got us Trump in the first place.
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