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Originally Posted by Chromeburn
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Thinker
A free press is our frontline defense against corruption. Disparaging it and dismissing it only weakens that purpose. Turning towards smaller opinionated blogs and other sources with an obvious bias that is not fact checked and reinforced by the whole leads to ridiculous conspiracy theories and people storming farm feed stores for ivermectin paste.
Simply put, these right wing sites and blogs don’t usually fact check or have the resources to report on some things accurately. They aren’t usually interested in being truthful either and are more interested in pushing their beliefs. People should obviously fact check everything and don’t just accept one source of information. But turning towards small little hate blogs for info just puts you in a deeper silo.
This whole thing started because of a president who was so corrupt he had to undermine the media covering him so his voters wouldn’t listen to what they said about him. Thanks to decades of right wing radio and TV, and social media that just reinforces your beliefs, that was an easier thing to accomplish than it should have been.
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Lol. Check out Vox or Huffpo sometime. They’re as bad or worse than anything on the right.
And don’t forget Obama’s extensive spying on and persecution of the press. It started long before Trump.
I agree that there is a big problem with the media in this country. But it’s not just a “right wing” media problem. It’s way bigger than that.