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Media Bias Thread

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w01fg4ng said:
The friends I'm referring to are actually very introverted. They don't talk like that to just anyone.
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I know exactly the type of people your’e talking about, I grew up with too many of them, and have even had to hear some of it recently. The concept is more about how Trump is being under represented in the polls due to Trump supporters who are lying to pollsters. I can’t seem to bring myself to dismiss the possibility of it.
 
Deru said:
I know exactly the type of people your’e talking about, I grew up with too many of them, and have even had to hear some of it recently. The concept is more about how Trump is being under represented in the polls due to Trump supporters who are lying to pollsters. I can’t seem to bring myself to dismiss the possibility of it.
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That makes sense, I suppose I hadn't considered that possibility of media bias because of bad information but it's there for sure.



Re: Shy vs Loud racism

The shy ones are basically like how I described.

The loud ones generally end up as Karen memes on the internet.
 
Deru said:
I know exactly the type of people your’e talking about, I grew up with too many of them, and have even had to hear some of it recently. The concept is more about how Trump is being under represented in the polls due to Trump supporters who are lying to pollsters. I can’t seem to bring myself to dismiss the possibility of it.
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Well with what we've seen now this clearly is the case.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. These crazy nuts think democrats are satanic pedophiles, and that the election is rigged yet trump wins it anyway.

Is it any surprise that you can't trust a single word out of their mouths? I suppose not.
 
I can't wrap my head around something. Why is China allowed to post photo-shopped images of Australian soldiers smiling while killing Afghan kids but Trump's twitter posts are deleted and his account suspended for far less?

Is there a bias against right wing Facebook / Twitter posts?

The CCP isn't exactly left wing.

Does the bias only exist in the western world?

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Thoughts?
 
birdup.snaildown said:
I can't wrap my head around something. Why is China allowed to post photo-shopped images of Australian soldiers smiling while killing Afghan kids but Trump's twitter posts are deleted and his account suspended for far less?

Is there a bias against right wing Facebook / Twitter posts?

The CCP isn't exactly left wing.

Does the bias only exist in the western world?

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Thoughts?
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Because there's finite resources and it's not realistic to police every single government official and so you go for the highest profile targets with the most prolific track record of lying?

Also, trumps tweets lies all the God damn time, he's not banned from Twitter.


Not that it matters, Twitter is a private enterprise, it doesn't need to be unbiased. Free market enterprise, that thing Republicans used to believe in.
 
The CCP isn't high profile? The CCP doesn't have a more prolific track record of lying than Trump?

Trump has been suspended from Twitter and if he tweets lies, they are instantly flagged as disputed. He has had tweets removed without anyone actually proving them false. Whereas various leaders of different countries have demanded that Twitter remove that image of the Australian soldier but they only flagged it as "Chinese media" or something.

JessFR said:
Not that it matters, Twitter is a private enterprise, it doesn't need to be unbiased. Free market enterprise, that thing Republicans used to believe in.
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I'm not a republican. I would have voted for Bernie over Trump. I just think Trump is better than Biden. I never swore allegiance to the republican party.

The problem with the free market argument with regards to Twitter is: social media is the new media. But then, hey, the media is biased too.

I'm not suggesting that the US government forces Twitter to do the right thing, but clearly there is an ethical problem when media organizations and social media organizations are massively politically biased?
 
if you think it's broken, why not let the market fix it?

isn't that the correct republican/right-leaning/whatever response? the freer the market the freer the people! small government! no regulation!

right, until the market comes up with something you don't like then they're all about regulating it and telling people what they can and can't do.

or take it further. don't like twitter. build something better and stop waiting for somebody else to solve your problems like an entitled, nanny-state liberal.

ironies abound.

alasdair
 
I never said I loved Trump. I think people assume that... because I don't hate him and a lot of people tend to see US politics through this black and white lens. I'm not a republican. I lean right but I'm mostly center. Some issues (like COVID and gun control) I am passionately left. Other issues I side with the right.

Bernie has redeemable qualities IMO.
Trump has redeemable qualities IMO.
Biden has none. He strikes me as totally incompetent.

I didn't really want this thread to be about Trump. I just used him as an example of political bias in social media. It's much broader than his administration.
 
DeadManWalkin' said:
Isn't it right that this shit is going to happen no matter what? It probably happened worse back in Bush and Gore days but there was just not so much everything being archived.
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yeah there has always been a double standard but there was never this cult like behavior. Back in the day a Republican could public disagree with Bush and they wouldn't be crucified. And people still cared if you were a hypocrite or not.
 
Taken from the Trump thread. Props to dalpat as I was going to post it here as well, but my direction was to the media bias thread. While the lawyer speaking is being asked about his winning the defense for Trump on his second impeachment, the dude GOES OFF on media, both sides, for their bias. I'd feel sorry for the dumb newscaster asking the questions, as they are stacked and slanted and he calls her out on it as part of his call for America to unite and Media to stop driving the wedge, except she IS part of the problem and she has no answer when her narrative is challenged. Good watch, irrelevant of the Trump impeachment and it's results. I wish there were more of this.


dalpat077 said:
This, below, is GOLD! If for no other reason than for once: the media got OWNED!

Note: this not meant to be any political contribution at all. I'm a man of my word. But good on this chap for OWNING the talking heads that have caused so much shit!

Not sure I agree with him re: PBS. But at least goes to show he's not biased and trying to convey a decent message.

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mal3volent said:
yeah there has always been a double standard but there was never this cult like behavior. Back in the day a Republican could public disagree with Bush and they wouldn't be crucified. And people still cared if you were a hypocrite or not.
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Sure, but it exists in both directions.

The Democratic party is a cult.
The Republican party is a cult.

Imagine if a democrat broke rank and said something in support of Trump.
 
Apologies. I didn't even know there was a media bias thread until this morning.

And surprised i.e. I would have thought that a thread on this topic would have reached its soft limit imposed and we'd be on v3 by now! :ROFLMAO:
 
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