(04-18-2024, 10:09 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(04-18-2024, 04:05 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: You guys need to distinguish between bias and partisan. Bias is common and unpreventable. It's typically countered by offering alternative biases, which is the basis for cable news. If a news agency wants to be partisan, it has no business calling itself news. It's just propaganda. It's that simple. Americans need to discover principles again. Incoming Trump bump.

The idea that you can get balance by simply offering a single alternative perspective is no longer credible.  For two reasons.  One, an alternative perspective may not be based in fact.  News should be introducing new opinions yes, but news should never introduce falsehood regardless of who believes the falsehood.  Two, there is more than one alternative perspective.  We used to have an illusion that you could cleanly break disagreements into a left position and a right position, but we are long past that now.  Obviously there is a libertarian perspective and a progressive perspective to go along with it, but there are more besides.

This is such a [BLEEP] red herring that's been circulating among the left. It's turd burgers only fit for morons to digest. Show me your unmitigated facts, and 9 times out of 10, I can point out the manipulation. 

When we are having political discussions, we are having moral discussions. We are talking about the way we want to shape our future. The left trots out their opinions, treats them like facts, and disperses them across their massive platform, then moves to oppose anyone who says otherwise. Furthermore, the left dominates the Overton window, and intentionally pushes the national attitude left, and once it gets far enough left, yesterday's normal is treated like heresy. Stop being a tool.

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