“There is partisanship on both sides of the political spectrum, but no left-wing outlets propagate extremism as successfully or widely as conservative media do. A new study of “Network Propaganda” by three Harvard researchers notes that liberals, by and large, get their news from sources such as The Post, the Times, NPR and CNN that, regardless of any political bias, also engage in rigorous fact-checking. Conservatives, by contrast, are being brainwashed by right-wing media that are an “echo chamber” for “rumor and conspiracy theory.” The frightening thing is that the right-wing media will be here long after Trump and the current crop of Republican politicians are gone. These outlets have a First Amendment right to say what they want, but investors and advertisers also have a right to take their dollars elsewhere.”
Organizations like Sleeping Giants are helping to convince advertisers to pull their advertising and financial support from right wing propaganda outlets like the ones Max Boot talks about in this column. It’s a good start, even if it can often feel like trying to empty a bathtub with a thimble.
This is how the system of white supremacy operates. The media is used 2 create stereotypes like blk on blk crime.They need black men to fill jail cells for the Prison Indstrial complex
You know what? I’m tired of this. I do not know what exactly they are waiting for. I mean our government comes up with “reasons” to invade other countries, such as Syria, like their government is allegedly violating human rights or something like that. but… I mean for other countries, they do not even have to go deep to bomb the fuck out of this place, they can just look at our media. And this has been happening to people of color since the media has existed.
I’ll never forget this
👇🏾
Did a research project on this in undergrad and the results are extremely alarming because it’s not just in imagery, it’s in language used even in the law making process and within our own communities in a completely different way than expected.
Yuuuup talk about this in our media culture and society class where the exact same Katrina sample was used. White supremacy runs far too wide and too deep to be denied that it exists
PSA: journalists aren’t supposed to put names in the headlines if the person isn’t a public figure. It’s not a matter of maliciously not giving credit
^^^as a journalist, this is something that bothers me ALL THE TIME
A friend of mine on Twitter explained this the other day, so to elaborate based on what she said: If the name is not instantly recognizable the way a public figure is, then putting the name in the headline isn’t going to bring about any sort of recognition or connection in the reader, and doesn’t do much to draw the reader into the story. But something like “local teen” does create a connection by tying the person into the community, and encourages the reader to learn more about what this local teen has done. The name will be in the article itself, after the headline has done its job at getting the reader to look into it.
It’s worth noting too that usually, according to the Inverted Pyramid writing style used for journalism where the most important information is shared first, the person’s name is usually in the first sentence of the first paragraph.
Whenever I see someone get up at arms over a headline that says “Local Teen” and the first comment is “SAY THEIR NAME” I’m always like “hey, thanks for telling every journalist present that you don’t read articles and just skim headlines.” Really makes us feel appreciated.
I think this Onion headline illustrates the point pretty well
1. Understand that trusting a news outlet does not mean they’re perfect… It means they tell you when they screw up.”
2. Don’t rely on just one news outlet.
3. Don’t rely on just the news to understand an issue. Read books. Find the experts. Find out how issues are discussed outside of news.
4. If you find yourself agreeing with everything your news outlet says, you’re doing it wrong. If your news doesn’t challenge you, challenge your news.
5. Find a commentator whose politics differ from yours- intellectually honest even though their values differ from yours. If you can’t find such a person, maybe the media’s not the problem.
6. Remember that what the news tells you is far less important than what they decide to talk about in the first place. If they focus on personal, speculative or salacious stories, find a new outlet – one that drills in on actual issues that affect real lives – your wallet or pocketbook, health, education, schools, social justice, the environment.
The true test of trustworthy journalism is not that they never make mistakes. It’s whether they’re willing to challenge the powers that be on behalf of those without power.
This is one of those things that I already knew was true, but seeing it so blatantly displayed makes me feel like like I am finding out about it for the first time.
CIA is getting lazy
O.o
It is really creepy how they all have the same freaking script
What the fuck
this isn’t random or the cia this is the sinclair broadcasting group which pushes right-wing news stories after buying local news stations across the united states. Scripts for stories like the one in this video are sent to their local news stations and it is mandatory for them to be broadcast.
I personally know journalists and local broadcasters who have quit their jobs or retired after being bought out by sinclair because they know they’ll be forced to do this shit
This does a pretty good job explaining why news outlets are like that. Really worth the watch!
This is one of those things that I already knew was true, but seeing it so blatantly displayed makes me feel like like I am finding out about it for the first time.
CIA is getting lazy
O.o
“It’s just a script whats the problem lol” the problem is that Fox, CNN, CBS, and all the other channels repped here, despite claiming to be different companies with different viewpoints, all had the exact same script, word for word, to push the exact same viewpoint that smaller, independent news outlets are Fake News and “A Threat To Our Democracy.”
The fact that they have scripts isn’t the problem. The problem is they all, each and every one, have the exact same script down to the letter and in some cases the fucking inflection, which basically reads “small news stations are untrustworthy and a Threat to your Way Of Life, only trust Us, We Are Verified.”
These are all clips from TV stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, a right wing company that’s been buying up TV stations, and is currently in the process of trying to buy up Tribune’s portfolio of TV stations, which would give them unprecedented ownership of TV stations.
The networks like NBC, CBS, ABC, et al only own a handful of the TV stations that carry their branding and those are all in the bigger cities like Los Angeles and New York, the rest of them are called “affiliate stations” and they have agreements to carry their primetime programming and the use the network branding, but they can be owned by anybody. In the past it would be some local dude like the guy who owns a car dealership.
However, since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, there has been a trend of large media conglomerates buying up TV stations across the country. Sinclair in particular has been buying up TV stations in the smaller areas and mostly doing so below the radar of most people.
Sinclair however, has fairly far right views and forces any station they own to air these “must run” segments to push these far-right views.
and they’ve been trying to buy up Tribune for a while, but they were stymied by the FCC who were blocking them. But ever since Pai became chairman of it, he rewrite the rules on media consolidation purely to benefit Sinclair so they could buy Tribune.
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