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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I don't like a post-fact world any more than you, but among the basket of deplorable journalists in this cycle, there wasn't a whole lot of daylight between WaPo and Brietbart. When Bezos dictated, for selfish reasons, that his paper would take its editorial cues from HuffPo, and toil assiduously to get HRC elected, the old guard became indistinguishable from the new guard of admitted bullshit artists.
(I have to actually give the Times credit here. The Old Grey Lady was chock full of Leftist tripe, but not much more than usual. And it really was about as even handed as any major outlet. LATimes also gets kudos for printing polls showing a much closer race, despite howling criticism from Lefties.)
The post-facts world was delivered to us by media on both sides of the aisle, and if you thinking claiming this is false equivalence, you need to get the fuck out of your echo chamber. The only difference between the Left's and the Right's fake news is quality, subtlety, and delivery. The Left and the media outlets that carry its water claim to be incensed at the Right's crass, overt bullshit. Actually, they're just jealous that the Right has an audience so easily manipulated. It sucks to have to work really hard to try to cleverly manipulate everybody and fail while your competition shoots fish in a barrel.
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I'm not going to address the substance of your post because even bothering to note that it is completely ridiculous absurdist nonsense would be the biggest waste of time and effort that I engage in all day, despite the fact that, at 3:30 p.m., I am planning on spending 15 minutes exclusively devoted to watching a Nyan Cat video loop. So yeah, I'm not touching that. Instead, I am going to ask that we all stop using the term "echo chamber." It might have been a useful metaphor for about three minutes, but now it is just lazy and meaningless and hopelessly trite. The fact that it appears in every seventh post here should be proof enough that I am mainly correct.
