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Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda by adjkant on Thursday December 21, 2017 @04:35PM (#15982998)
Why are people downvoting this? What is incorrect here?
Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda by linkregister on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:07PM (#15983275)
Fox News is following its viewers’ sentiment; it originally favored anti-Trump stories prior to his nomination by the Republican Party.

Now it pushes the Trump line, but this is due to the fact that Fox News rightly recognizes that its viewers want their biases confirmed.

Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda by mistermann on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:45PM (#15983573)
As does CNBC and CNN, admittedly to a far lesser degree, except theirs is the "correct" bias.
Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda by linkregister on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:55PM (#15983645)
CNN has bias that fluctuates wildly toward the perceived flavor of the week; it operates for maximum sensationalism. It basically invented the 24-hour news cycle and hasn’t altered its formula for decades.

CNBC is business news; did you mean MSNBC?

MSNBC has the least viewership of the three and I would not consider it particularly influential. It is biased towards a minority ultra-Democrat position, hence its relatively lower viewership due to its fringe editorial content.

Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda by starik36 on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:39AM (#15986080)
CNN's bias is firmly anti-Trump and it doesn't fluctuates in any way, shape or form. You can go to their home page and at any point, there will be some anti-Trump headlines.
Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda by linkregister on Thursday December 28, 2017 @08:08PM (#16026654)
You don’t think it’s coincidental that most Americans will click on a negative Trump article? CNN is a trend follower, not a leader in this regard.
Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda by fleitz on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:55PM (#15983647)
To be fair to Fox News I don't recall anyone in the RNC resigning because they gave candidates debate questions they were privy to as corespondents. (Donna Brazile)
Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda by linkregister on Thursday December 28, 2017 @08:06PM (#16026639)
Misconduct occurs in all organizations; while pointing fingers I could make the claim that the Fox News organization is pro-sexual harassment because of two high officials’ actions (Ailes and O’Rielly). Yet this would be unfair and false.

Lest ye be Roy Moore’d (or Anthony Weinered), it is a mistake to take a bad actor and extrapolate isolated statements or conduct to the greater organization without evidence of a trend.

However, CNN is the topic. Don’t think for a minute if Trump or another Republican achieves greater than 50% popularity, CNN won’t swing that way. Negative coverage of Trump was en vogue before CNN started doing it, not the other way around.

Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda by Spooky23 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:26PM (#15983433)
I think people have trouble distinguishing the personalities from the editorial direction.

If MSNBC wasn’t close to Obama, it’s certainly in alignment with many progressive thought leader types. Fox and MSNBC are similar animals, it’s just that the Republican platform is simpler and smaller than the “big tent” Democratic platform.