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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Points of agreement:
1. The mainstream media and social media have historically been and remain staffed disproportionately with left leaning sorts (I think Ty may disagree somewhat with this. He seemed to disagree more with the assertion that this group of left leaning people had real power within media organizations, but I don't recall him weighing in on the specific point that media types predominantly lean left. But given it is pretty obvious, with the exception of Fox, Breitbart, etc., I'm comfortable saying this assessment is not controversial to anyone and so should be deemed neutral).
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I have no idea who the "mainstream media" are or what that phrase means. MSNBC isn't mainstream, it's solidly left leaning, just as Fox is right leaning. I don't think there is a cable channel that doesn't have some alignment.
Maybe the NYT or Washington Post might qualify, but the left has as many beefs with them or more than the right. Certainly the NY Times editorial page, with people like Brooks, Douhat and Dowd, and the front page, with politics dominated by the likes of Maggie "her emails" and Peter "normalize Trump" Baker are dominated by right wingers, even if they (occasionally) try to be more subtle about it than fox. And don't get me started on the WSJ.
On line, the Cambridge Analytica and Russian operations made sure social media has had enormous organized right wing slants and if you go look at news feeds on facebook and other social media sites you'll see a propensity for "national enquirer" style coverage.
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