Re:China's New Wave of Internet Censorship: Name Verificatio...
by coldtea on Sunday August 27, 2017 @05:54PM
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>When something happens, the media gives right-wing fascists the benefit of the doubt; "we don't know who he is", "he doesn't represent the movement", "he was scared", "he was attacked", "he's crazy", and once the proof is out they tend to draw false equivalencies with left.
Does it though? Because I found the majority of the media except niche-oriented ones like FOX and Breibart do not fit that profile.
Re:China's New Wave of Internet Censorship: Name Verificatio...
by losteric on Sunday August 27, 2017 @08:48PM
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I should have said conservative media.
CNN had no problems attacking with everything they knew, but they avoided excess speculation and treated the Charlottesville attacker the same as Hodgkinson... which was my point.
When something happens, the media gives right-wing fascists the benefit of the doubt; "we don't know who he is", "he doesn't represent the movement", "he was scared", "he was attacked", "he's crazy", and once the proof is out they tend to draw false equivalencies with left.
That doesn't happen as much on the left - it's stigmatized full stop, no excuses. CNN's clickbait news will drag it out