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z3mcs t1_jbbtn2l wrote

Reply to comment by roccoccoSafredi in Group backed by Sinclair Broadcast Group chair likely to push for referendum to allow Baltimore recall elections by aresef

I wish. Nobody wants to go down that road because they are a media outlet. The thing is, I don’t care if they would just promote republicans or do supposed conservative stuff, okay sure. But they warp everything, do underhanded shit, omit facts, cause chaos at every turn. But if we tried to get rid of them they would act like they were just trying to be good journalists poor ol them.

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ReturnOfSeq t1_jbdfu74 wrote

We used to have a “media fairness doctrine.” Part of that was requiring a basic degree of honesty and nonpartisanship from journalist and news outlets.

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Jrbobfishman t1_jbfg7mz wrote

No doubt. Let’s get rid of Sinclair and NPR.They are both extremists with an agenda

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ReturnOfSeq t1_jbfgel9 wrote

You’re half right. Don’t think I’ve ever seen anything extreme, or even notably biased, from NPR.

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Dr_Midnight t1_jbfv1n2 wrote

> ...and NPR.They are both extremists with an agenda

You drop a /s there, or were you actually serious?

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Jrbobfishman t1_jbghyyi wrote

NPR is so far left in its constant pandering it’s become a total joke. All while being funded by “think tanks”, pharmaceutical companies and defense contractors. Let not even pretend you are getting fair and balanced news reporting. It’s a shame, I was once a huge fan but it slowly digressed into the soft spoken anti-Fox. It’s easier to see if you don’t belong to the left or the right tribe.

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Dr_Midnight t1_jbh0cve wrote

Oh dear, he's actually being serious...

I guess I shouldn't blame you for such. When the overton window has continuously migrated to the right to the degree that it has, something right of center might actually manage to look "extremist" and "so far left".

After all, when the state is seizing money being legally carried from people (who are not charged with any crime) and the K-9s in use are given "high praise" by CBS News anchors - a network considered to by AllSides to be "Left Leaning" (where they also categorize NPR to be), well... I guess that civil asset forfeiture is, per your reasoning, a position held in a positive view by the "extremists [...] far left".

Likewise, per that chart, the New York Times is "Left" -- actually, further left than they have NPR positioned when their opinion section is taken into account. Right... okay, sure. I didn't realize that writing puff pieces for the LAPD after they shoot innocent bystanders was a feature of leftist media, but here we are.

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Jrbobfishman t1_jbh8veg wrote

Thanks for starting your reply with that condescending tone, it kept me from trying to decipher the rest of the word salad. I can’t hang with your superior intellect

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Dr_Midnight t1_jbh96ul wrote

If I am not mistaken, this is what is colloquially referred to as "willful blindless" - which, in and of itself, is ironic given the previous statement about things being "easier to see".

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