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[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works -5 points 7 months ago

So they are biased? Lmao, you guys are changing your tune pretty quickly.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Everyone is biased, that's the freaking point. "Un biased" media does not exist, it's retoric created to make you think whatever you watch is better than the rest.

If I headline an article "Man dies in police involved shooting" instead of "Unarmed black man murdered by racist pig" both of these are technically factual aren't they? Yet they both have a clear bias.

Let me give you another example I saw recently in a lot of Canadian media: "One arrested at pro-palestinian demonstration" vs "Zionist arrested for assault at pro-palestian protest."... Yet now the same media is headlining "At least two pro-palestinian protestors arrested"... Do you see how all of these are factual, and yet biased?

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Since you obviously didn’t read the comment I linked to, I’ll copypasta the relevant bits:

The whole concept of the “left” or ”right“ “bias” being inversely correlated with factualness is garbage. These kinds of graphs, which try to convince us that centrism equals factualness, are garbage:

The core bias of corporate media is the bias of the capitalist class.

The inner workings of corporate media were explained about forty years ago in Inventing Reality and Manufacturing Consent.
A five minute introduction: Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

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