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Why not? CNN is complete propaganda without any actual news. I really dont understand how intelligent people can watch it.
As an outsider who has dabbled in American television, this is true for all of American television. It’s incredible how even those who don’t think they’re brainwashed are brainwashed.
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https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings CNN is especially eggregious. NYTimes should also be on the left column which is reflected in the votes "Somewhat disagree" with the current characterization as Center-Left (scroll down). Edit: I am just pointing out a free publicly available dataset of what the population thinks of the media. Make what you will, don't shoot me.
That agree/disagree seems to be missing an opportunity, because you don't know what the disagrees think it should be instead - despite collecting that data when you click disagree. So it could be that people actually think they're more in the middle or even right than further left. Unless I'm missing something? Also seems to be extremely easy to game at first glance.
I would also ask anyone who is upset about this article calling out CNN to reflect on why they are upset. Is it because CNN is associated with being an ally of the left? I would ask the same if anyone feeling the same way about Fox/your favorite news outlet here.
I didn’t read the linked article because I don’t really care if the fact in the headline is true or false. It doesn’t matter.
What I worry about these days relates to the first sentence I wrote. Damn near every story from cable/entertainment news requires a deeper look and is usually written in such a way to inspire outrage and or binary tribalism. If that doesn’t scare you a little I would humbly ask you to reconsider.
Who on HN is upvoting this kind of garbage article? > CNN continues to lose trust for its biased news against whoever did not vote for Biden, and its promotion of an extremist hate-culture against "the other" 84 million American voters. ... what?? This trash doesn't belong here.
Why is it trash? CNN lied about Rogan taking "horse paste" when he had a regular prescription for humans: https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/144869603591685... CNN is not the same as 20 years ago, and neither is the NYT.
CNN has a bias, but that's forgivable. What's unforgivable is that they've become useless.
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As an outsider who has dabbled in American television, this is true for all of American television. It’s incredible how even those who don’t think they’re brainwashed are brainwashed.
That's a broad brush. There's CNN/Fox News/OAN level bias and then there's ABC. It's a matter of degree.
Fox viewers likely think the exact same thing.
Not that all truth is subjective but the choice on what and how to report definitely is.
Theory: CNN watchers are more economically affluent than watchers of other channels and are too busy working jobs and running businesses and exercising and traveling etc. to watch CNN. Higher income households spend less time watching cable TV. Lower income people spend more time. A channel with high viewership is actually attracting the bottom bucket of society.
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https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings CNN is especially eggregious. NYTimes should also be on the left column which is reflected in the votes "Somewhat disagree" with the current characterization as Center-Left (scroll down). Edit: I am just pointing out a free publicly available dataset of what the population thinks of the media. Make what you will, don't shoot me.
There is nothing necessarily wrong with bias toward a specific side, unless you make the flawed assumption that the truth must be in the center.
The worst part of air travel for our family is CNN on every screen. The children were scared seeing all the disasters in remote areas, the non-stop crises and arguments. WTF airports.
See. I saved you all of that time so now you can be productive instead of hearing the same thing over and over again.