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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by blackeyeblitzar on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:52PM (#43191163)
This is clearly incorrect. MSNBC is pretty strongly left / progressive.
Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by harimau777 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @12:08AM (#43191545)
Unfortunately, that's not the case. MSNBC tends to advocate for liberal positions which, while on the left side of right wing, is still a right wing position. You don't see them advocating much for social democracy let alone more extreme forms of socialism.
Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by jlawson on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:52PM (#43200380)
If you set your 'center' at your personal position, instead of the center of the population as a whole, you get weird results.

I.e. to someone else, Fox News isn't advocating to deport all non-whites, therefore they're just the right side of the left-wing blob.

In real life, left-wing means left-wing relative the population, not relative to you personally.

Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by harimau777 on Friday February 28, 2025 @12:22AM (#43201990)
If we define left wing in terms of the population as a whole, then there is a huge portion of the population that is opposed to neo-liberal & far right positions and there are no major media organizations that represent them. That's the point that I am attempting to make.
Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by timeon on Thursday February 27, 2025 @12:44PM (#43196611)
Most people in the US have not encountered the 'left'. Democrats, do have progressive wing but in general they are center-right/right while Republicans are far-right at this point. (Even ignoring the Nazi salutes at Republican rallies).