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stopbush

(24,378 posts)
Mon Aug 29, 2016, 11:45 AM Aug 2016

Do You Think Most D Voters Are Wise To The Media's False Equivalency BS?

I'm thinking that yes, they are.

And if that's true, then every new instance of false equivalency serves only to harden people's opinions against the idea that the media is an honest and fair broker of the news.

The fact that 90% of the media denounced that AP story about Hillary giving preference to meeting with people who had donated to the CGI shows that the media does have it in them to point out an obvious lie. But this instance of their lying wasn't a false equivalancy story - it was bald-faced lying to hurt Hillary. When it comes to the false equivalency BS, the media as a whole still feels the need to maintain their illusion, even if it means building fantastic lies.

That said, I think that over half the electorate now understands that they media are trying to play them for fools, especially when it comes to the media going with the received opinion they helped create that the Clintons are horrible people, even when they're doing more to eradicate AIDS than most worldwide health organizations combined, and that there's always an opportunty to trumpet a false equivalency whenever Trump says something disgusting.

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Do You Think Most D Voters Are Wise To The Media's False Equivalency BS? (Original Post) stopbush Aug 2016 OP
Yep. Majority of the Dems think the media sucks big time and even some GOPers. Iliyah Aug 2016 #1
i think even "false equivalency" is a right-wing frame unblock Aug 2016 #2
I have to disagree. stopbush Aug 2016 #3
Bingo!! moose65 Aug 2016 #4

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(51,974 posts)
2. i think even "false equivalency" is a right-wing frame
Mon Aug 29, 2016, 12:05 PM
Aug 2016

it implies that the media is liberal but bends over backwards to avoid the appearance of liberal bias and therefore puts whatever the right-wing spin is as the "equivalent" to the left-wing story.


the truth is that whatever liberal bias the media may have had at one point is long gone. explicitly liberal media personalities are far outnumbered by explicitly right-wing media personalities, and the liberal personalities (and editors and so on) know that they work for right-wing corporations with right-wing bosses.

moreover, right-wingers see "liberal bias" if the random man on the street interviewee "acts gay" and see no right-wing bias no matter how much they puff up the right-wing candidate point of view.


it's not a matter of "false equivalency". let's just say it: there's a clear and overt right-wing bias in the media. period.

stopbush

(24,378 posts)
3. I have to disagree.
Mon Aug 29, 2016, 12:45 PM
Aug 2016

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False equivalency arises when a RWer says or does something untoward, sending the media into a frenzy to find evidence on the left side of the aisle for acting in the same untoward way.

I think it's obvious that that is what is going on. And it's a one-way street. Otherwise, you'd see the media expressing outrage over the e-mail habits of Colin Powell and Condi Rice as a balance to their vendetta against Hillary. You would be hearing about the 22-million e-mails Rove had deleted every time someone mentions all of the emails Hillary has turned over.

But you don't hear any of that. You hear them treating everything Hillary does as a unique and unprecedented violation of the public trust, whereas anything questionable done by a RW is framed as "both sides of the aisle do it."

moose65

(3,164 posts)
4. Bingo!!
Mon Aug 29, 2016, 01:23 PM
Aug 2016

"Both sides do it" only applies to bad things that Republicans do. Democrats are still singled out and "punished" for things that the right-wing gets away with all the time.

Just witness the treatment of John Edwards vs. Newt Gingrich. Edwards has completely disappeared from public view, while Newt's name was mentioned as a possible VP for Trump. Ridiculous.

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