(09-03-2022, 09:44 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(09-03-2022, 08:01 PM)mikesez Wrote: You're both right.
The media in the US is capitalist and corporate.  In a global context, where most economies have greater regulation and control by the state, nearly every media channel from the US has a pro-corporate and anti-government agenda. Bezos good.  WalMart good.  Microsoft good.  These channels do report on corporate scandals, but they tend to emphasize the problems that foreign corporations like Toyota have, over ones that develop at domestic competitors.  But if there is any kind of failure of government service anywhere, it's front page news.  Look at the Jackson water supply.  They are selling the message that private corporations are more competent and more responsive and more caring than governments, and they are selling it hard.

But if you ignore the global context and look exclusively at an American partisan political context, the news media in America is pro-urban, pro-managerial, pro-federal, and pro-homo.  They are anti-rural, anti-worker, anti local government, and anti-religion.  These things mostly (but not exclusively) map to favor Democrats over Republicans.  

But even bigger than these biases is the bias that all of them have towards sensationalism, to drive viewers and clicks.   You may think they hate rural working Christian people, and they do, but not as much as they love you clicking on their stuff, whether you agree with it or not.

Surprisingly well said. Earned a +1.

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...made me feel dirty.

(09-03-2022, 10:31 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: That makes two of us. I need a shower.