CNN refused to broadcast President Donald Trump’s White House address on Thursday, July 16, after his “history of false statements.”
After the move, CNN was hit with a wave of backlash from viewers as many found the move to be a form of censorship. On X, one person wrote, “Unbelievable and unacceptable, no more ‘objectivity’ CNN has no credibility……all news outlets should air any President live AND LET THEIR VIEWERS DECIDE THEIR OWN OPINIONS OF LIVE PRESIDENTS NATIONAL ADDRESSES.”
If the viewers had the ability to discern propaganda and fake news from legitimate information, we would not have Trump as president.
If we had a unbiased, functional 4th estate we would not have Trump as president. Treating made up bullshit as “alternate facts” is partially why we are where we are.
Nothing is ever unbiased. Nobody should ever assume it is. This is what allowed the 4th estate to fail. But yeah their failure was egregious.
Right, but we used to have this thing called the Ombudsman whose entire job was striving to be unbiased.
They did away with them years ago.
I don’t disagree, which for us is sometimes ironic. But I would like to emphasize and contrast your own words striving, not being. The sad truth is, even with the best intentions. We can’t avoid or counter what we are unaware of. Even without malice.
But, everyone should absolutely strive to be as unbiased as they can. And at the same time understand that there is only so much they can. As opposed to what we have now. Which is almost completely sensationalized, poorly framed, and often purposefully incomplete.
I’ll make sure to give your opinion all the consideration it deserves.
Extremely passive aggressive comment. But do what you need to. Outlets have always used things like omission, framing etc to shape opinion. The fact that there are so few now with even fewer owners has only exacerbated the issue. Understanding an outlets bias will help you identify that framing or intuit what was omitted. It should be a basic understanding every person should have. It’s the only real check that would keep the outfits as honest as possible.
You seem to be very intent on lecturing rather than discussing. I am not interested.
If you want discussion discuss. You are the one lecturing. Do you have an issue with what I’ve said? Please explain it let’s discuss. You don’t have to be passive aggressive lecturing.
You are not a professor. Lemmy is not your classroom. People here are not your students. Not a single one of us is required to read or respond when you bloviate. Nor do we have to entertain your ridiculous attempt to redefine common words like ‘lecture’ for your convenience.
On Lemmy and nearly everywhere else in life, adults can choose to ignore you completely. Please refer to this message as needed when there is no response to additional comments.
Yet you don’t. You just keep coming back with projection. Well here let me be the adult. Bye Felicia.
So much of this is just the result of turnout. And so much of turnout hinges on how efficiently the campaigns operated.
The big difference between Obama, Hillary, Biden, and Harris is who knew how to organize the machinery to get their supporters to the polls in the highest numbers and who didn’t.
After that, you’re just living in a country where 45% of the voting base consistently goes with the most naked fascist on the ballot, because they’ve been programmed to hate hate hate outsiders. And if you can’t juice enough of the remaining 55%, fascism is what you get.