• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    10 days ago

    Interesting that you’re concerned about them unanimously editing the narrative to not include the real estate fair or who started the violence (which, 100%, is a bullshit thing for them to do)

    But presumably approving of 3/4 of them putting Biden’s name in the headline for as far as I can tell literally no reason at all

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      10 days ago

      This is where ground news is really helpful.

      I swear this isn’t an ad (though if anyone does want to try I think I have a referral code?) but it’s really nice to be able to just swipe through various publications’ articles on the same subject and compare headlines, etc.

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        10 days ago

        Why are they putting CNN and other capitalist publications on the left hand side of center?

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          9 days ago

          No idea. I take it with a grain of salt. I guess we need to remember just how far right most publications are.

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            9 days ago

            It was actually a rhetorical question, because I already know the answer. The answer is that the political spectrum is always relative. There’s no such thing as a middle or a center, there’s only left or right relative to some other point. It’s like movements in space, space doesn’t have a north pole or an objective reference point, so you can only say that a particular solar system is a certain distance from our own or some other arbitrary reference point.

            Ground News chooses to have an arbitrary reference point, while telling its users that it’s an objective source of understanding bias. This is deceptive. It makes users feel that they’re unbiased, while entrenching them in the particular biases of USA politics. This is very bad for society as a whole. Ground News is brain rot.

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        10 days ago

        Sure, let me rephrase: No legitimate reason

        I actually do agree that “and then Biden went on Twitter and said some dumb shit about it” is an important addition to make to the story. I just don’t think it is two of the most important nine words that the New York Times would want to communicate about the protest, and I think it’s notable that it forms such a huge feature in the (again 100% accurate) narrative about the Western media doing its thing and lying about Palestine and Palestine protestors.

        Actually - I would be pretty confident that a random sampling of all the stories in the media would show most of them simply covering the protest, and that only a small number which then were included in this screenshot featured the word “Biden.” Maybe I am wrong but that would be my guess.

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      10 days ago

      This isn’t an anti-Biden post Mozz… The media isn’t saying WHY they showed up to this one location to rightfully protest.