Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing
by ysv2 on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:31PM
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> No-one (left or right) would have found a word-fight between evenly-wrong grey characters very interesting if that was the story in the first place.
That you would rank the Covington kids as "evenly-wrong" with their racist (not to mention adult) abusers is incredible.
Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing
by SECProto on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:56PM
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Does the behaviour of one group somehow excuse the unacceptable behaviour of another? "Two wrongs don't make a right"?
(Not debating the "even-ness of wrongs", as that is a six-year-old's excuse for punching their sibling - "They started it!!")
Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing
by smsm42 on Saturday February 02, 2019 @05:54AM
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Except there was no unacceptable behavior from the part of the kids (unless you consider "standing and smiling while being abused by racists and nutcases" unacceptable behavior). That was a complete fabrication to make the story fit the narrative. There weren't two wrongs - there was just one wrong, and it was from the other side than the press claimed it to be.
Except that that was also reported mostly everywhere. Also, one sided 'evil-looking' harassment is news that is more interesting to most people because it might signal some trend. No-one (left or right) would have found a word-fight between evenly-wrong grey characters very interesting if that was the story in the first place. Because it just isn't.
That doesn't make the mainstream press left-biased. I think it actually isn't.