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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course it exists. The WSJ, WaPo, NYT, BBC, NPR. In spite of rightwing fantasies about mainstream media being "leftist," all these publications publish the news. Stay away from the editorial pages, and you are getting...news. [/quote]

Precisely this.

Right wingers created a right-wing media echo chamber because they confused a lack of conformity by legacy media with their fringe ideas and conspiracy theories as being “bias.” You can and should reject that premise. It’s a false equivalency to say because these right-wing outlets, none of which follow basic tenets of journalism as established by trade organizations like the Society of Professional Journalists, it follows that everything else is “left.” It’s not binary like that.

Right wing media and their obsessions are largely make-believe. It is oriented to creating and stoking outrage rather than reporting news, which may or may not be outrageous. That’s why you get breathless coverage of things the vast majority of people don’t care about, like immigration caravans and prisoners getting taxpayer funded sex change operations. It’s rare that they report news in good faith.

The legacy media by and large follows standards set in place 100 years ago. They use multiple sources, try to report fairly (which if anything leads to complaints about both-sides are saying, even when one side is clearly lying or invalid). And it is typically trying its best to avoid bias, rather than leading with it the way the right wing media does. It’s imperfect but it doesn’t have an agenda.

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