BamaD -> RE: Why Do People Despise And Distrust The Media? (2/22/2017 6:54:04 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BamaD Blatant bias on the left was common before anyone heard of Atwater. I doubt that you remember when in the 70's someone called Nixon a conservative it was treated as an accusation. The headline reading Nixon accused of being conservative. No, what you're calling 'blatant bias on the left' was actually impartiality and an emphasis on the truth. That used to be the the standard of journalism. Television and the national news was more liberal, because it was less restricted by local markets and their influence on editors/producers. Most newspapers were very conservative, at least editorially until the late seventies, post-Watergate, but a great number still have a very conservative focus. Your Nixon story is... an entertaining reframing of events from a man who bugged the opposition's election headquarters... but conservative was never a dirty word-- and it still isn't. I don't blame all conservatives for Trump. I blame the folks who support Trump, for Trump. I never said Nixon was a good person. That is not relevant to the fact that the press considered conservative being a automatic insult. Your claim of objectivity is dead wrong. When you were in diapers I was watching the news ever day. The 5 o'clock news rarely reflected what happened when you watched something live. Haave you ever seen film of the buildings that were burning on Kent State when the guard arrived? Have you ever seen film of the students throwing bricks BEFORE the fist shot was fired? Has it ever occured to you that if you fire a couple hundred rounds of 7.62 round into a crowd you will have 10 times the casualties? Have ever seen the film of the NCOs knocking the muzzles of the rifles into the dirt. Has it ever occurred to you that had they actually been fired into the crowd the majority of the casualties would not have been half a mile away and more from the riot. The kids were sacrificed for the "cause". The guard was sacrificed for the incompetent governor. That is never what the press said about it.
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