@Jolly said in Three Ways:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Three Ways:
@Jolly said in Three Ways:
The question becomes, is the narrative true?
Maybe it's just me, but I've seen multiple articles by former citizens of Russia, China, Venezuela and Cuba, all talking about how bad and monolithic American media has been over the last few years.
The US media is awful, but it's not the same root cause as totalitarian regimes, and there are disparate voices, but both sides seem to be as biased as the other. The real problem is that nobody seems interested in even trying to be objective, so you get something as horribly biased as The Epoch Times complaining about liberal bias elsewhere.
The solution to CNN is not OANN.
I also wonder whether the polarization of the media is the cause of the apparent polarization in the country, or a symptom of it.
Aqua talks about what sells, but would something with good journalistic standards and a keen eye to preventing as much bias as possible, actually draw eyeballs?
If you're not concerned with trying to eliminate bias as best you can, then you're not really a journalist anymore, which I think is true of much of today's media.
