Media Bias

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Originally Posted by Chico23231

Matt Taibbi, well known liberal reporter nails it again:

Be it Resolved: Don't Trust Mainstream Media
My opening remarks for the Munk Debates in Toronto tonight

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/be-it-..._campaign=post

National Surveys on the media have long killed the “this is a ring wing only narrative”, Matt Taibbi brings some receipts

When Fox had success targeting suburban and rural, mostly white, mostly older conservatives – the late Fox News chief Roger Ailes infamously described his audience as “55 to dead” – other companies soon followed suit.

Now everyone does it. Whether it’s Fox, or MSNBC, or CNN, or the Washington Post, nearly all Western media outlets are in the demographic-hunting business. This may be less true in Canada, where there’s a stronger public media tradition, but in the U.S., it’s standard.

Call it the “audience-optimization” model: instead of starting with a story and following the facts, you start with what pleases your audience, and work backward to the story. In this system, the overwhelming majority of national media organizations cater to one “side” or the other. For instance, according to a Pew Center survey from a few years ago, 93% of Fox’s audience votes Republican, while in an exactly mirroring phenomenon, MSNBC’s audience is 95% Democratic.

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From your article .. pretty straight forward opinion piece really.Main stream media is mostly "political entertainment" at this point.

Anyone who unconditionally believes what Tucker Carlson or Don Lemon tell you ... they are just enjoying their daily trip to their confirmation bias watering hole.

Conservatives watch Carlson so they are reassured they are right and the other s are wrong.

Same for the left.

When I read articles I just look for direct quotes and objective blurbs in there.

I dont read many "opinion" pieces like this. I dont need someones interpretation of facts to be snow balled into my mouth like some baby bird.

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You could have put this is the common ground thread -- mainstream media is bias.