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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The media tilts left and is more critical of Republicans. It's also more critical of hawks. Hillary got criticism as a perceived hawk.
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I know this is popular mythology on the right, and god knows you have the critical capacity of an ant when it comes to right-wing mythologies, but the traditional print media has always been hard-core centrist, tending to the center-right or center-left depending on local political preferences (see the Dallas News versus the Boston Globe) and who is in charge at a given time. This is because traditional print media is all about access.
Traditional Network News used to be the same, but with cable they now tend to try to reach national submarkets - Sinclair the ultra-right, CBN and Fox the hard right, CNN the center to center-right, Bloomberg the center, and MSNBC the center left to left. You've got more right wing cable networks than anything else, reflecting massive investment by the Murdoch's of the world.
The press of the left is a pretty modest and mostly academic groups, with publications like the Nation or MERIP. Most of the media pays no attention to them.
Sure, like any workplace, the owners and management are usually voting much farther to the right than the employees, and it is the employees who actually do the writing, but they don't run the place.
But why am I bothering? You don't give two shits about reality.
