Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda
by mistermann on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:45PM
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As does CNBC and CNN, admittedly to a far lesser degree, except theirs is the "correct" bias.
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Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda
by linkregister on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:55PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.