Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
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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.
I haven't paid any attention to this whole fake news thing, but I did hear it mentioned a couple times. Shame on anyone who even has the gall to say "fake news." There's no such thing.
But I will disagree with you that somehow "The Daily Show" ruined Millenials. I know that there are many Millenial traits that you dislike, and so do I. But it's unfair to paint them as zombies who worship Jon Stewart. You're making the same kind of generalizations that you are admonishing "elites" for making about "hillbillies."
Also, if you don't think that "The Daily Show" revealed a great amount of truth about the media, I strongly disagree. Did Stewart have an easy job relative to "real" media? Sure... in some regards, he got to have it both ways. But, really, who cares? He comically revealed the complete absurdity of mainstream media... something which everyone on the Right preaches incessantly. To reduce what he did to "fake" news is only true if one is willing to admit that every single bit of mainstream media we consume is fake news. CNN, MSNBC, Fox, the NYT, etc. are all basically parodies of the type of news we once received. I have a hard time going after a guy who basically sought to show in a comedic way how ridiculous they are. He was an effect, not a cause.
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