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I was on the fence about AP’s bias until the Hamas building story broke (actually it broke years ago, when the Atlantic published a story about AP in which staffers openly discussed watching rockets launched from their own building).
Truthful, bias-free news is no longer their specialty.
The only thing that drives the corporate media is a desperate clawing for ratings as cable and the internet continue to undercut them.
Ratings = Money, just look around at all the job cuts and mass layoffs in the industry.
If you've never read up on the era of Yellow Journalism where desperate competition lead to a dirty, corrupt, often lying or misleading media then you're missing out on the many many current parallels going on now.
This is demonstrably false. There are countless right leaning stories that are being completely ignored in media that would get a tremendous amount of ratings, but they don't cover for ideological reasons.
Look at the Oscars, 50% hit in ratings,. They lost half their audience after going woke. That other half would tune in to media if the stories represented their concerns. Fox News gets the best ratings on cable because they're the only conservative network. There is so much room and opportunity to cater to an underserved segment of the market
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Well the final nail in corporate media's coffin was last year, not just parroting Fauci's endless flip flops on masks and COVID but on refusing to cover the riots and calling out the violence.
I mean for God's sake, a leftist mayor in Seattle ceded an entite police precinct to the mob rather than reign in the violence and allowed seditionists to take an "autonomous zone"
"Summer of Peace", the media said - Reputation permanently destroyed
The media was reporting what was know at that time by the health authorities what would you like them to report the latest medical breakthroughs from the mind of Trump? Why didn't the Vice President brief the nation on the status of COVID, he was in charge of the Presidents Team?
Protests and violence outbreaks were covered daily on both my local and national news (with videos's) what were you watching that wasn't showing this? Or the fact that MSM reports didn't come with all the click-bait and "the real story" that the Breitbart type news sources online did?
Seattle was a fiasco on multiple levels and the city will have to deal with the consequences but so was the Big Freeze in Texas which also lacked leadership. About 57 people died in Texas while their Senator went south to keep warm leaving them to freeze but none/maybe 1 (no reported amout) died in all the mess in Seattle.
"Summer of Peace", where did that come from because I have not seen that anywhere?
The media was reporting what was know at that time by the health authorities what would you like them to report the latest medical breakthroughs from the mind of Trump? Why didn't the Vice President brief the nation on the status of COVID, he was in charge of the Presidents Team?
Protests and violence outbreaks were covered daily on both my local and national news (with videos's) what were you watching that wasn't showing this? Or the fact that MSM reports didn't come with all the click-bait and "the real story" that the Breitbart type news sources online did?
Seattle was a fiasco on multiple levels and the city will have to deal with the consequences but so was the Big Freeze in Texas which also lacked leadership. About 57 people died in Texas while their Senator went south to keep warm leaving them to freeze but none/maybe 1 (no reported amout) died in all the mess in Seattle.
"Summer of Peace", where did that come from because I have not seen that anywhere?
The corporate media rarely if ever used the word "riot", which clearly it was for months on end. From the beginning, it was nonstop "peaceful protests" lest they lay responsibility on the people destroying their own cities.
I bet you still believe that COVID is dangerous for children, because of course the media hyped up the stories of kawasaki disease-like incidents back in March. The reality is that COVID is a culling disease, it kills the weak, old, and unhealthy. Young, healthy, people are at little to no risk from COVID, but you would never know that from corporate media
This is demonstrably false. There are countless right leaning stories that are being completely ignored in media that would get a tremendous amount of ratings, but they don't cover for ideological reasons.
If you're telling me that a for profit corporation is forgoing profit opportunities you're going to have to give me some solid examples rather than some vague claim of unknown stories coupled with your speculation as to the ratings they would get.
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The corporate media rarely if ever used the word "riot", which clearly it was for months on end. From the beginning, it was nonstop "peaceful protests" lest they lay responsibility on the people destroying their own cities.
I bet you still believe that COVID is dangerous for children, because of course the media hyped up the stories of kawasaki disease-like incidents back in March. The reality is that COVID is a culling disease, it kills the weak, old, and unhealthy. Young, healthy, people are at little to no risk from COVID, but you would never know that from corporate media
So you don't like the semantics they used even though most protests were peaceful but again I saw the truth being reported with those that turned violent, no one was denying it or hiding it. Covid kills period and if you see no risk for younger children than feel free to do what you want with any you are responsible for but for everyone else they would rather make their own decisions. Like many you think information on Covid is static and what was being observed last March may or may not still have relevence a year plus later.
News reporting will never be agreeable to everyone on everything but one big difference with the MSM is they are held accountable to a Journalistic Standard that the online sources are not. In fact for them the more outlandish the more people seem to believe them as fact and that is a greater danger than any MSM story that may be presented incorrectly and have to be retracted or corrected. And contrary to popular posting Twitter, Face Book and Youtube are not Journalistic Standards that have any oversite.
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