The GOP and Fox are stuck in a positive feedback loop. Republicans sought to create their own media channels to support conservative interpretation of the news and their messaging. The tail now wags the dog.
The meme is that reality has a liberal bias - so their response was to eliminate that ‘bias’ from their news, and call the rest of t…
The GOP and Fox are stuck in a positive feedback loop. Republicans sought to create their own media channels to support conservative interpretation of the news and their messaging. The tail now wags the dog.
The meme is that reality has a liberal bias - so their response was to eliminate that ‘bias’ from their news, and call the rest of the media biased for attempting to accord with reality.
A certain amount of media both-siderism and false equivalence is an attempt to accommodate the irreconcilable. It’s also from the belief that it’s not the media’s proper role to tell people what to believe, but just lay out differing views and let people decide on their own.
Tom Tomorrow does an excellent job depicting the resulting absurdities with his “Action McNews” and “Life in the Stupidverse” themes. (See this week’s cartoon for an example.)
Press Run and This Modern World should work on some cross promotion.
The GOP and Fox are stuck in a positive feedback loop. Republicans sought to create their own media channels to support conservative interpretation of the news and their messaging. The tail now wags the dog.
The meme is that reality has a liberal bias - so their response was to eliminate that ‘bias’ from their news, and call the rest of the media biased for attempting to accord with reality.
A certain amount of media both-siderism and false equivalence is an attempt to accommodate the irreconcilable. It’s also from the belief that it’s not the media’s proper role to tell people what to believe, but just lay out differing views and let people decide on their own.
Tom Tomorrow does an excellent job depicting the resulting absurdities with his “Action McNews” and “Life in the Stupidverse” themes. (See this week’s cartoon for an example.)
Press Run and This Modern World should work on some cross promotion.
Speaking of This Modern World...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/12/2025106/-Cartoon-Revenge-of-the-stupidverse