Conservative complaints about bias miss the point.
  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    84·
    28 days ago

    The media is mainly sensationalist driven and Trump is… well he’s very not normal.

    Unless we fix media funding and restore something like the fairness act loud assholes will always have an advantage.

    • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winEnglish
      42·
      28 days ago

      I hate it. The last 9 years have been hell for me because this asshole won’t shut up and the news insists on blasting every stupid thing he says. It doesn’t matter if he thinks drinking bleach is a good idea. What matters is the news broadcasts this so people that already know he’s an idiot can laugh, and those that don’t think ‘well if der president says it makes sense it must’. What you get is 1. a decrease in average intelligence, and 2. constant name recognition for a rapist felon with no business acumen who chronically lies and wants to literally destroy democracy.

      Graph go up tho so hurr hurr!

      edit: typos

    • Omega@lemmy.world
      17·
      28 days ago

      The problem as I see it is how the news portrays every little thing the left does (or just things that happen on the left’s watch) with the exact same sensationalism as every radical thing the right does and says. If anything they tone down what the right does so it doesn’t sound extreme.

      Like finding the most extreme loud leftist protester to compare to actual elected delegates on the right or militant groups on the right that officials actually back. Meanwhile if the right wipes their ass without making a mess, they are hailed.

      The left is judged on their worst and the right is judged onto their best, and the left still usually comes out looking better.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        28 days ago

        stupid thing he says. I doesn’t matter if he things drinking bleach is a good idea. What matters is

        It wasn’t perfect, but it was WAY better than what we have now. They just lie openly about anything they want with zero oversight.

        • commandar@lemmy.world
          71·
          28 days ago

          The Fairness Doctrine is a red herring in the conversation either way. Even if it hadn’t been rescinded, it would have eventually become irrelevant.

          The Fairness Doctrine only ever applied to radio and TV broadcasters, i.e., broadcasters operating using the limited, publicly owned radio spectrum. It was only Constitutionally enforceable because it was intended to ensure equal access to what was essentially a public space.

          Cable TV and the Internet turned that completely on its head. Attempting to regulate speech over a privately owned medium is a very, very different legal hill to climb. The most problematic sources of misinformation and bias today tend not to be AM radio but things like NewsMax or Libsoftiktok.

          It’s a huge problem, but it’s not one the Fairness Doctrine would solve.

  • DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
    33·
    28 days ago

    The Billionaire owners of the media HATE paying taxes

    Trump’s tax plan ensures they pay zero taxes while crushing the working class.

  • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
    281·
    28 days ago

    From a different post but I think it works here too:

    I think the error is calling these people journalist. They are not. They are content creators.

    Their job isn’t to get to the truth, it’s to drive clicks and comments. It’s to enrich them and their employer.

    There are good journalist still out there but since they don’t play to the almighty ALGORITHM they get drowned out.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    28 days ago

    The NYT is going to be interviewing the last living Trump supporters in their final hours, fervently insisting they are the bellweathers of the 2048 election season.