Faun
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That's simply not true. Where most people get their news from shapes public opinion, not which side pumps out the most news. And your Dan Rather example speaks volumes towards my point. 30 years ago, he probably would have gotten away with that bogus report. Not in the Internet age. There are now too many media outlets you can't fool. That's why 30 year old data is irrelevant. That's why Obama's JAR is not where it is due to a "corrupt media."The point of my 99% left wing media example is to demonstrate that showing how left wing the media is does not show how many people get their news from it, which is what actually matters on terms of shaping public opinion.It's not a valid leap. 99% of the media could be left-leaning but if 99% of the population gets their news from the 1%, the 99% left-leaning media is irrelevant.I attack you because your being fucking retarded.. Like you are doing here again.
I didn't attack you because you claimed th the media is biased and I disagreed with you. If you could understand English, you would have noticed I never disagreed on that point.
I attacked you for saying the media is biased because I didn't ask you to prove the media is biased. I challenged you to prove most people get their news from what you classified as, "corrupt media." You couldn't meet that challenge so you tried throwing a strawman at me instead about how biased the media is.
Even worse for you -- I pointed out what you had done and you did it again. Both times not addressing my challenge before you finally gave up and confessed such data is hard to find.
You claimed Obama's job approval is higher than Reagan's because of a corrupt media -- but you can't demonstrate most people get their news from left-wing media outlets. Failure to prove your claim reveals it's really a delusion and not a fact,
My link showed that the vast majority of the media is hard left.
That you can't make the leap from that to the realization that most people get their news filtered though a hard left filter is not credible.
Is this the type of word games that you play in court?
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If 99% of an industry is hard left, you would be hard pressed to create a news source that is not dominated by the hard left.
And if you did, it would be a lone voice out of tune in the chorus,
Why do you think Talk Radio EXPLODED like it did once Reagan got rid of the censorship of the "Fairness Doctrine"?
Because the HALF of the nation that wasn't lefty was STARVED for a news source that didn't hold them in contempt.
Yeah, I got your point.
It's nonsensical.
If the vast majority of an industry is hard left, the vast majority of the product available will be filtered by a Hard Left world view, AT BEST.
If there is not actual lies and purposefully propaganda.
Which we have seen examples of (paging Dan Rather).
If one or two sources have somewhat higher ratings, because they aren't vile leftists, that doesn't defeat the overall narrative of the Hard Left.