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you can't talk about US politics and polling honestly without having a conversation about how the American news and information diet is comprised of infotainment sewage and agitprop. Yet you could pluck literally any news story from the feed and find ZERO mention of Republican propaganda successes.

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techdirt.comBari Weiss Gets To Work ‘Fixing’ CBS ‘Bias’ — By Making It More BiasedFor more than fifty years the U.S. right wing has embraced a neat trick: by claiming that literally anything in factual opposition to their beliefs is “biased” and therefore must be dis…

not only do you have a vast right wing propaganda network that's growing all the time (NY Post, Fox News, Sinclair, AM Radio, now CBS, probably soon TikTok), you have a corporate press that's been fecklessly bullied for a generation to be soft on Republicans lest they be accused of "liberal bias"

on one end you have this massive right wing propaganda bullhorn lying about what Democrats stand for bolstered by a corporate press that's routinely gamed by Republicans to validate and amplify these lies then you have pundits wondering why the electorate so often votes against its best interests

just play along with me at home: any time you read journalism on U.S. politics, polling, or electorate's beliefs, see if it makes ANY mention of the U.S. public's news and information diet, or that ANYTHING AT ALL might be a bit rotten in the way the U.S. public gets informed on the issues

none of this, it should be clear, excuses shitty dem proposals and messaging, or their failure to recognize media policy reform as something they've neglected for a generation but I can't respect any journalism or reports that can't recognize the extremely effective Republican information assault

I Am Antifa

@iglover.bsky.social

You nailed it. The Semafor article is garbage. We are faced with a media system that constantly tells us what we think and believe. It is always picking apart the left as being out of touch while ignoring rot on the right. We do have some people so stuck to their purity tests that they can't /1

JP Stormcrow

@jpstormcrow.bsky.social

@becauseicare4u.bsky.social

A stark illustration was Covid coverage early in Biden's term. What should have been a huge story was how RW media were trashing public health efforts during a raging pandemic in support of partisan gain. Yet MSM coverage barely mentioned the media role in partisan splits on vaccines etc.

Randi Shepard Bauer

Just about sums up the situation

HR Ryan

@hrryan.bsky.social

YES! And hardly a whisper about the rightwing agitprop/disinfo machine from the MSM or the loud online pundits. Why is this?

Heidi in Montana

@inmontana.bsky.social

The confusingly popular Candace Owens has said free school lunches are racist because black families are being taught to be freeloaders. We live in a country that hears such idiotic commentary (do any white kids get free school lunch, Candace?) and doesn't flee from the source. This is the problem.

Wintersong

@wintersong.bsky.social

I feel like every time in the last 25yrs I’ve seen a discussion of how Fox News plays in nearly every retirement home and military base, not to mention more than half the Dr offices in the USA, the right always comes back with “but Dems dominate the late night comedy shows” like the two cancel out