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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
MSNBC does care about facts more than Fox. I would never challenge that.
But just like Fox, it selectively presents and emphasizes certain facts over others. And like Fox, but not as dishonestly, it crafts a subtle narrative of the facts.
For instance, you'll never hear about racism driving Trump voters on Fox. It'll all be economic insecurity. On MSBC, you'll hear about economic insecurity driving Trump voters, but it'll be given short shrift, and racism will be focused on as though it were 90% of what drove Trump voters. It's subtle but insidious pushing of a certain narrative.
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No one with a brain should be watching any cable news, or even any TV news.
That said, out in the "print" media, you absolutely 100% saw a ton of left-leaning writing about the role of economic insecurity. Yeah, anyone who has looked closely has concluded that it wasn't about economic insecurity, or, at bare factual minimum, the two things correlated really strongly.
But that's wholly different than what happens in the right wing medium bubble, where there's no discussion at all.
