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Where "news" comes from and why it has a leftist bias.
« on: December 29, 2018, 01:04:42 PM »
TL;DR

MSM types follow lefite activists on Twitter, then write stories based on their tweets.  Since the MSM types don't follow any conservative "activists", there is no reporting on conservative issues.   Because the MSM types are leftists to begin with.

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/12/28/truth-hurts-ag_conservative-takes-media-to-the-shed-in-brutal-thread-about-where-reporters-get-their-stories/
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Re: Where "news" comes from and why it has a leftist bias.
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2018, 02:20:48 PM »
There's NO bias in the media - just take this example from TIME magazine.

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Re: Where "news" comes from and why it has a leftist bias.
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2018, 03:44:01 PM »
IDK, the Flame head cover makes him look kind of bad ass.  :lol:
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Re: Where "news" comes from and why it has a leftist bias.
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2018, 03:48:54 PM »
I'm not involved in twitter enough to do it, but there has to be a way to use that to feed complete bullshit into the news cycle.
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Re: Where "news" comes from and why it has a leftist bias.
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2018, 06:19:20 PM »
I'm not involved in twitter enough to do it, but there has to be a way to use that to feed complete bullshit into the news cycle.


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Re: Where "news" comes from and why it has a leftist bias.
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2018, 07:30:53 PM »
I'm not involved in twitter enough to do it, but there has to be a way to use that to feed complete bullshit into the news cycle.

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Re: Where "news" comes from and why it has a leftist bias.
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2018, 11:32:50 PM »
Pretty much everything in all the news, left and the so called right leaning, is propaganda.

If you think you can see through the propaganda then you fundamentally don’t understand propaganda.

The whole modern media complex is by design or its nature against tradition, God, natural rights and the western people.

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