The Press has squandered the last of their credibility

[Harte]

I remember it was only about a decade ago that anyone saying that the Press was biased would get an argument from so-called reasonable people.
Not today.

Today, the Press is the cheerleading squad/hit man for the Democratic Party, and they don't even try to hide it.
The blatantness with which the press does this deed for the Democrats is the only real change since those old days. They used to at least act like they weren't doing it.

Consider the two unevidenced, unvetted, and unsourced stories floating around the press in the last two weeks before election day concerning Trump (disparaging a fallen military member and "raging" about the cost of her funeral, and saying he wants "Generals like Hitler" had (odd, that, since Hitler's generals tried to kill him.)
Both events supposedly took place during the Trump presidency, but they come out years later on the eve of an election. One of them was snatched up and repeated by Kamala Harris the same day it came out.

Meanwhile, within that same two weeks from the election, it has come out that virtually the entirety of Harris' testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in 2007 (when she was District Attorney) was plagiarized from a Republican District Attorney's testimony to the same committee on the same subject two months earlier. This a couple of weeks after another incidence of Harris' plagiarism involving passages from her book "Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer" was discovered.
This is the same behavior that caused Biden to lose his first run at the nomination for the Presidency back in the day, when he was much younger.

The unvetted stories about Trump were splashed all over the news - even publicly repeated by a candidate for President of the United States (not that candidates don't routinely lie about each other - but usually they don't have a "valid" news source to cite.).

The documented plagiarism from Harris? Well, you'd have to know about it already in order to run a search on it and find it out through online sources, or watch Fox News, (which I find somewhat distasteful) before you would even know about it.

I don't think that what Harris did was a big deal, but I didn't think that what Biden did so long ago was a big deal at the time.

No, the big deal is running with an unvetted story about one candidate 13 days before an election while completely ignoring a valid story about the other candidate that came out in the same time period.

The mask has fallen off. No one is even trying to put the mask back on.
America is the lesser for it.

People decry the loss of respect for, and faith in, our institutions while happily gutting them all. 

Harte

[+and-then]

This is the same behavior that has set so many different groups of Americans against each other.  When they attacked the vote in 2020, they attacked the last, most crucial tie that has bound us together.

[+Razman]

1 hour ago, Harte said:

Today, the Press is the cheerleading squad/hit man for the Democratic Party, and they don't even try to hide it.

Lets not forget about the other half of the media that is the cheerleading squad for the Republican party. It's not a one sided thing. By making it sound that way , you are doing the very thing that you are accusing them of doing or something similar.

Edited October 25 by Razman

[the13bats]

 

Nice blog.

Thats right trump is 100% innocent of any and wrong doings ever he should be granted knighthood sainthood dictator of trumpmerika and hailed by all as sacrosanct messiah,

The evil press should be held accountable for making up stuff about this convicted felon man.

[+Razman]

1 hour ago, and-then said:

This is the same behavior that has set so many different groups of Americans against each other.  When they attacked the vote in 2020, they attacked the last, most crucial tie that has bound us together.

IMO Trump is as much responsible for Americans against each other as anyone. And he was attacking the vote back even in 2012 Obama / Romney election and he wasn't even in it.

[+and-then]

8 minutes ago, Razman said:

Lets not forget about the other half of the media that is the cheerleading squad for the Republican party. It's not a one sided thing. By making it sound that way , you are doing the very thing that you are accusing them of doing.

Your point is valid to the extent that any legacy media leans Conservative.  The vast majority of legacy media has leaned Left for decades and now they are nearly uniform in that bias.  Even Fox was happy in 2020 to call AZ for Biden 5 minutes after polls closed and they didn't call obviously won Trump states for hours.  I stopped watching Fox the next day and haven't tuned in since then.  

[+and-then]

8 minutes ago, the13bats said:

 

Nice blog.

Thats right trump is 100% innocent of any and wrong doings ever he should be granted knighthood sainthood dictator of trumpmerika and hailed by all as sacrosanct messiah,

The evil press should be held accountable for making up stuff about this convicted felon man.

You sound like a spoiled child.

[+Razman]

6 minutes ago, and-then said:

Your point is valid to the extent that any legacy media leans Conservative.  The vast majority of legacy media has leaned Left for decades and now they are nearly uniform in that bias.  Even Fox was happy in 2020 to call AZ for Biden 5 minutes after polls closed and they didn't call obviously won Trump states for hours.  I stopped watching Fox the next day and haven't tuned in since then.  

Fox is unbelievable these days. It may be an exaggeration , but it seems like at least 90 percent of their reporting is right biased, not only biased but they go well out of their way . I was just scrolling through the general feed wall and i noticed it again today,  just one thing after another from them in this regard. Almost every day.

Edited October 25 by Razman

[Agent0range]

Everyone is lying except for Trump.  He has been a beacon of honesty and integrity his entire life.  He has been a selfless human being since the day he was born.  He has never put himself above others.  He is not a convicted felon, and he has not, in a court of law, been responsible for sexual assault.  He is the man we should all hope to be.  I'm going out for some makeup and hair dye tomorrow, because I have seen what the epitome of an alpha male is.  

[+Razman]

2 minutes ago, Agent0range said:

Everyone is lying except for Trump.  He has been a beacon of honesty and integrity his entire life.  He has been a selfless human being since the day he was born.  He has never put himself above others.  He is not a convicted felon, and he has not, in a court of law, been responsible for sexual assault.  He is the man we should all hope to be.  I'm going out for some makeup and hair dye tomorrow, because I have seen what the epitome of an alpha male is.  

You might need some spray on tan as well. 

[Agent0range]

1 minute ago, Razman said:

You might need some spray on tan as well. 

LOL, look at the color of his skin by his ears, where the spray tan doesn't get to.  He's old, and he's gross.  

[+Razman]

It's like this one i just ran across , it's just bizarre stuff for lack of a better word.

Tucker Carlson compares Donald Trump to 'dad' who will deliver 'vigorous spanking' if elected

he long-divisive conservative political commentator compared Trump to a “p***ed” father. He said in the case Trump is reelected on Nov. 5. and returns to the White House next year, it will be as if he is coming home to punish his misbehaving daughter, the country.

“He’s not vengeful. He loves his children, disobedient as they may be,” Carlson said. “When dad comes home, you know what he says? ‘You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now.’”

Later, when Trump took the stage at the Duluth campaign stop, members of the audience chanted “Daddy’s home.” 

[psyche101]

28 minutes ago, Razman said:

It's like this one i just ran across , it's just bizarre stuff for lack of a better word.

Tucker Carlson compares Donald Trump to 'dad' who will deliver 'vigorous spanking' if elected

he long-divisive conservative political commentator compared Trump to a “p***ed” father. He said in the case Trump is reelected on Nov. 5. and returns to the White House next year, it will be as if he is coming home to punish his misbehaving daughter, the country.

“He’s not vengeful. He loves his children, disobedient as they may be,” Carlson said. “When dad comes home, you know what he says? ‘You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now.’”

Later, when Trump took the stage at the Duluth campaign stop, members of the audience chanted “Daddy’s home.” 

Bizarre indeed. 

It seems the more hardcore Republicans see domestic violence as just a part of life. You have to wonder about Tucker's childhood making comments like that. It might explain why he always looks like a dog trying to poop too. 

[+and-then]

1 hour ago, Razman said:

Fox is unbelievable these days. It may be an exaggeration , but it seems like at least 90 percent of their reporting is right biased, not only biased but they go well out of their way . I was just scrolling through the general feed wall and i noticed it again today,  just one thing after another from them in this regard. Almost every day.

I wouldn't know.  As I said, it's been nearly four years since I tuned in but I'll take your word for it.  Of course, your perception of that may be due to where you are in the Overton window.  I'm sure that's the case for myself.  I use Ground News to seek out the bias in different media sources and they even have a feature that exposes one to the blind spot of lack of coverage by Left, Right, or Center.  

[+Link of Hyrule]

Just now, and-then said:

I use Ground News to seek out the bias in different media sources and they even have a feature that exposes one to the blind spot of lack of coverage by Left, Right, or Center.  

Ground News is excellent, well worth the subscription if you can afford it  

[+and-then]

1 hour ago, Agent0range said:

Everyone is lying except for Trump.  He has been a beacon of honesty and integrity his entire life.  He has been a selfless human being since the day he was born.  He has never put himself above others.  He is not a convicted felon, and he has not, in a court of law, been responsible for sexual assault.  He is the man we should all hope to be.  I'm going out for some makeup and hair dye tomorrow, because I have seen what the epitome of an alpha male is.  

Another adult acting like a child.  You guys have willingly bought into the tribalism and accept all the propaganda about him.  All you're accomplishing is self-delusion.  I've been clear here on many occasions that I think he's got a dreadful lack of personal skills and he's his own worst enemy but...  only fools or the politically ignorant buy into all these stories about him being a dictator or that his voters are all cult members.  I think it's about getting a dopamine bump.  I hope it isn't more nefarious than that.  

If he wins, I think the Left is going to lose its collective ****.  Just like it did in 2016.  

 

 

Edited October 25 by and-then
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[+and-then]

6 minutes ago, Link of Hyrule said:

Ground News is excellent, well worth the subscription if you can afford it  

I love it.  It allows me to expose myself to sources I wouldn't normally see and it gives me a sense of how to determine bias in all sources.

[psyche101]

1 hour ago, Razman said:

Lets not forget about the other half of the media that is the cheerleading squad for the Republican party. It's not a one sided thing. By making it sound that way , you are doing the very thing that you are accusing them of doing or something similar.

Never happens to democrats though. Ever. 

Frighteningly awful’ Biden struggled to complete sentences for over a year before dropping out, book reveals: ‘Like your senile grandfather’

Note cards and shorter stairs: How Biden's campaign is addressing his age

Is she drunk?': Kamala Harris' viral videos fuel ‘intoxication’ claims at election rallies

Megyn Kelly Says Kamala Harris 'Slept Her Way' Into Politics

Benny Johnson guest says Kamala Harris is “the first hyena vice president we have ever had”

Not to mention WTF does her husband have to do with her campaign? 

I'm calling BS on Hartes claim. 

I didn't even look at Fox or Breitbart. Breitbart his pretty much hate news for right wingers. 

Not believing the claims against ones patron saint of gluttony and greed isn't the same as them not existing. It's not like Trump's not actually guilty of many,many crimes. He is regardless of opinion. Courts have spoken. Trump gets much less flak than he actually deserves 

[psyche101]

19 minutes ago, and-then said:

Another adult acting like a child.  You guys have willingly bought into the tribalism and 

Says the leading tribalist poster on the forum

What a joke. 

[psyche101]

24 minutes ago, Link of Hyrule said:

Ground News is excellent, well worth the subscription if you can afford it  

 

LoL with you two recommending it, I've got all I need to know about it already

It's got to be heavily right wing biased before you two would advocate it. 

[+Link of Hyrule]

14 minutes ago, psyche101 said:

 

LoL with you two recommending it, I've got all I need to know about it already

It's got to be heavily right wing biased before you two would advocate it. 

Wrong, mate - Least Biased Centre Source Media Bias Fact Check

 

Edit: to be clear: Ground News is just a news aggregating site. It takes all the topics of the day and puts them in an easy to find, easy to manage place, from all sides of the political spectrum and highlights where on the political spectrum this story is coming from. It has a great feature that is called the Blind Spot feature, which highlights stories covered only by media on one side of the spectrum, which shows what stories the other side of the political aisle is focusing on at any given time. 

Double edit: from the link I provided at the top of this post: 

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Analysis

Ground News publishes a summary of a news story and then provides links to other sources reporting on the same news. Each link is assigned a bias rating of either Left, Center, or Right. You are given the option to click on the source or leaving the website/app to read the story. When you click on the source link, you are given more detailed information where the source is labeled one of “seven bias ratings (Far Left, Left, Leans Left, Center, Leans Right, Right, Far Right) based on the average bias rating of the publishing news Bias Rating agencies.” Ground News states that they do not determine bias ratings on their methodology page but rather rely on authoritative bias raters, Media Bias Fact Check, Allsides.com, and Ad Fontes Media.

The website/app also features Blindspot, highlighting a news story disproportionally reported by one side. For example, the story Conservative think tank creates ‘A to Z guide’ for stopping critical race theory in schools is meant for the Left’s blindspot because 6 out of 7 news sources reporting this story have a right bias. Another feature of Ground News is they display a map of where the source originates from.

 

Edited October 25 by Link of Hyrule

[psyche101]

17 minutes ago, Link of Hyrule said:

Wrong, mate - Least Biased Centre Source Media Bias Fact Check

 

Edit: to be clear: Ground News is just a news aggregating site. It takes all the topics of the day and puts them in an easy to find, easy to manage place, from all sides of the political spectrum and highlights where on the political spectrum this story is coming from. It has a great feature that is called the Blind Spot feature, which highlights stories covered only by media on one side of the spectrum, which shows what stories the other side of the political aisle is focusing on at any given time. 

 

Never heard of it before. 

I assume the blind spot feature is the attraction to consolidate news of a specific bias? I could see you two liking something like that.

[+Link of Hyrule]

1 minute ago, psyche101 said:

 

Never heard of it before. 

I assume the blind spot feature is the attraction to consolidate news of a specific bias? I could see you two liking something like that.

The blind spot lets me see what the other side of the aisle is talking about and what my media sources aren't reporting on. I also lurk on a couple of lefty Facebook pages (eg, "Supporting the Harris Administration", and "Intersectional Feminism"). Using this I get to see all sides of the media spectrum. From my own conservative leaning sources, to the mainstream left wing sources, to the far left posters on Facebook. Ground News is just one link in the spectrum of sources I am able to access. 

In short, it's really the opposite of what you claim - the blind spot feature is an attraction, but it's so that I can see the news I would otherwise miss, rather than to consolidate sources that I would already have access to. 

[psyche101]

4 minutes ago, Link of Hyrule said:

The blind spot lets me see what the other side of the aisle is talking about and what my media sources aren't reporting on. I also lurk on a couple of lefty Facebook pages (eg, "Supporting the Harris Administration", and "Intersectional Feminism"). Using this I get to see all sides of the media spectrum. From my own conservative leaning sources, to the mainstream left wing sources, to the far left posters on Facebook. Ground News is just one link in the spectrum of sources I am able to access. 

In short, it's really the opposite of what you claim - the blind spot feature is an attraction, but it's so that I can see the news I would otherwise miss, rather than to consolidate sources that I would already have access to. 

Like I say, I've not heard of it or therefore used it. 

What I think you are saying is when using the blind spot feature you can lean the feed left or right as you please, is that a correct evaluation? 

 

[+and-then]

8 minutes ago, Link of Hyrule said:

In short, it's really the opposite of what you claim - the blind spot feature is an attraction, but it's so that I can see the news I would otherwise miss, rather than to consolidate sources that I would already have access to. 

Exactly why I like the feature.  I've been exposed to more of the mind of Left-centric sources than ever before.  I rarely agree with their characterizations of events but occasionally I do.  At a minimum it's important to understand where the Left is headed during these times.