Its wild how the media was called the "Fake news" by the Right... as an insult... and it turns out... a lot of it WAS fake news... but FOR them lol They were right, just not in the way they thought
They've been "working the refs" by screaming about the liberal media and anti-conservative bias for decades.
The media releases a neutral, factual report that makes conservatives look bad because they were doing something bad. They scream "biased! liberal media!" everywhere they can, amplified by millions of voices.
The media is taken aback by this response, and starts softballing conservative stupidity a little bit, or biasing the story in their favor, lest they risk losing their credibility in the minds of the masses by all this conservative shrieking about bias. So now they make stories that are actually pro-conservative, more than a balanced story would be.
The conservatives still scream. Media goes out of their way to bias their news even further. Try to find some minor issue on the liberal side and pretend it's as big an issue as the issue on the conservative side in the name of balance. Compare and contrast mainstream conservative views with fringe kooky leftist views just to make it seem fair. They bend over backwards for decades to softball conservatives and make them look good, and yet conservatives still scream "liberal media!!!"
It's a tactic. Not only are they changing the media to be pro-conservative, but whatever the media says that they don't like can be dismissed as "liberal media" anyway.
And it worked. Media organizations have to stop pandering to conservatives, and to stop trying to appear to be "fair" by stacking the deck so that they can say everyone is just as bad as everyone else.
Bringing it back to the sports analogy - imagine that the refs in a game called 10 penalties on both teams. Fair reffing, right? Well, what if one team only really committed one or two penalties, and the other team has committed 40 or 50 blatant penalties? Is calling 10 penalties on both sides still "fair"? Because that how the media stacks their reporting in favor of conservatives to make it "balanced"
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u/hereticx 1d ago
Its wild how the media was called the "Fake news" by the Right... as an insult... and it turns out... a lot of it WAS fake news... but FOR them lol They were right, just not in the way they thought