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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
If you think there aren't left wing media sources that traffic in Fox-like behavior, you aren't living in reality.
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Why don't you provide some names then? Maddow and O'Donnell can get a little kooky at times, but they're hardly Fox & Friends. They over-reach for hype at times, but they are generally engaging with reality (disclaimer, I don't watch any of them). The latter, especially, might be the poster boy for the kind of both sides politics you're talking about, though.
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His views tend to nearly lockstep with a demographic profile of a center/progressive who thinks Mother Jones is a source of serious commentary and news.
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This is bizarre, both because of course Mother Jones is a source of serious commentary and news and because Mother Jones is hardly far to the left. It's also hardly comparably to, say, the Federalist, both in ideological extreme or straight up nonsense.
If you want to match the Federalist for distance from the center, you'd have to go with the likes of Jacobin, but that illustrates the problem. The fringe on the right is conspiracy theory nonsense. The fringe on the left is serious, sometimes literally academic, political theory that we just don't happen to agree with. Gee, maybe both sides aren't actually the same.
