Anonymous
01/09/2022 11:05
Subject: RW vs LW news
My theory: I think "MSM" has lost the plot where it comes to objective news reporting.
Their producers are now just thinking in terms of cliffhangers, plot twists, and adversity for serialization like their TV producer counterparts who sell adventure fiction. They think they need a horse race in order to sell their stories. They can't just have happy news, everything needs to be fraught with uncertainty, there can't be any clear wins, in the misguided notion that this is what they need to get people to keep coming back to them to see what happens next.
Their producers are now just thinking in terms of cliffhangers, plot twists, and adversity for serialization like their TV producer counterparts who sell adventure fiction. They think they need a horse race in order to sell their stories. They can't just have happy news, everything needs to be fraught with uncertainty, there can't be any clear wins, in the misguided notion that this is what they need to get people to keep coming back to them to see what happens next.
Anonymous
Anonymous
01/08/2022 17:22
Subject: RW vs LW news
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Politico stated as fact this morning that Sonia Sotomayor had dinner last night with Pelosi, Schumer, Klobuchar and Durbin, and the MAGAheads completely freaked out (even though Clarence Thomas’s wife organized January 6 and Antonin Scalia rather famously went on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney.)
It was a complete lie because they mistook Schumer’s wife for Sotomayor and didn’t do any fact-checking whatsoever.
Compare to conservative outlets like Newsmax, OAN, FOX, Daily Caller, Breitbart and others who constantly release falsehood-filled stories and don't even bother to issue corrections, retractions and apologies like Politico did.
+1 And I have the impression that what people that read Breitbart would think would happen in this situation is that “MSM” like Politico would get this photo from a tipster and just not do anything with it, not wanting to let people know that Sotomayor was “compromised.” When in fact they just put it out there without any verification at all and it wasn’t even Sotomayor at all.
Anonymous
Anonymous
01/08/2022 15:38
Subject: RW vs LW news
Anonymous wrote:Politico stated as fact this morning that Sonia Sotomayor had dinner last night with Pelosi, Schumer, Klobuchar and Durbin, and the MAGAheads completely freaked out (even though Clarence Thomas’s wife organized January 6 and Antonin Scalia rather famously went on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney.)
It was a complete lie because they mistook Schumer’s wife for Sotomayor and didn’t do any fact-checking whatsoever.
Compare to conservative outlets like Newsmax, OAN, FOX, Daily Caller, Breitbart and others who constantly release falsehood-filled stories and don't even bother to issue corrections, retractions and apologies like Politico did.
Anonymous
01/08/2022 15:33
Subject: RW vs LW news
Politico stated as fact this morning that Sonia Sotomayor had dinner last night with Pelosi, Schumer, Klobuchar and Durbin, and the MAGAheads completely freaked out (even though Clarence Thomas’s wife organized January 6 and Antonin Scalia rather famously went on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney.)
It was a complete lie because they mistook Schumer’s wife for Sotomayor and didn’t do any fact-checking whatsoever.
It was a complete lie because they mistook Schumer’s wife for Sotomayor and didn’t do any fact-checking whatsoever.
Anonymous
Anonymous
01/05/2022 14:51
Subject: Re:RW vs LW news
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Anonymous
12/27/2021 11:08
Subject: Re:RW vs LW news
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Headline from the Washington Post: “In highly vaccinated New England, hospitals are under unprecedented strain as coronavirus surges”
In the 14th paragraph we finally read: “Doctors in the region all said that a substantial majority of the patients currently hospitalized with covid — between 60 percent and 80 percent — were unvaccinated. The breakthrough cases that end up in the hospital tend to be milder and are concentrated among older patients and people with other health conditions, they said.” Well, huh. You’re telling me that it’s the unvaccinated idiots who are filling hospitals in a well-vaccinated area and you don’t bother to indicate that in the headline or until halfway through the article?
And this is a fairly centrist source, but they’re still carrying the GOP’s water and allowing them to pretend that this surge isn’t being driven by mouth breathers (some of whom will be breathing via a tube soon).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/23/new-england-covid-surge/
60% vaccinated means that 40% (that’s almost half!) of the hospitalizations were vaccinated people. That really doesn’t fit the narrative of vaccines being so wonderful and worth all the risks for everyone no matter what. That’s why they hid it in the 14th paragraph. It seems like they needn’t have worried though, since evidently their target readership will believe the narrative no matter what the data says…
And LOL at wapo being a “fairly centrist source”. Seriously LOL.
These states have vax rates in the mid to high 70s. If the 40% is coming from the 70ish percent that are faxed, and the 60% is coming from the 20ish percent that is not vaxed, that indicates the vax is working very well.
Also the article said "between 60 and 80%," so you can tell the PP is being extra disingenuous because not only did they only acknowledge the highest possibility of vaccinated patients, they further exaggerated it by calling 40% "almost half."
The actual statistic is that vaccinated patients make up 20-40% of hospitalizations. 20-40% is nowhere near "almost half."
Anonymous
12/27/2021 10:51
Subject: Re:RW vs LW news
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Headline from the Washington Post: “In highly vaccinated New England, hospitals are under unprecedented strain as coronavirus surges”
In the 14th paragraph we finally read: “Doctors in the region all said that a substantial majority of the patients currently hospitalized with covid — between 60 percent and 80 percent — were unvaccinated. The breakthrough cases that end up in the hospital tend to be milder and are concentrated among older patients and people with other health conditions, they said.” Well, huh. You’re telling me that it’s the unvaccinated idiots who are filling hospitals in a well-vaccinated area and you don’t bother to indicate that in the headline or until halfway through the article?
And this is a fairly centrist source, but they’re still carrying the GOP’s water and allowing them to pretend that this surge isn’t being driven by mouth breathers (some of whom will be breathing via a tube soon).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/23/new-england-covid-surge/
60% vaccinated means that 40% (that’s almost half!) of the hospitalizations were vaccinated people. That really doesn’t fit the narrative of vaccines being so wonderful and worth all the risks for everyone no matter what. That’s why they hid it in the 14th paragraph. It seems like they needn’t have worried though, since evidently their target readership will believe the narrative no matter what the data says…
And LOL at wapo being a “fairly centrist source”. Seriously LOL.
These states have vax rates in the mid to high 70s. If the 40% is coming from the 70ish percent that are faxed, and the 60% is coming from the 20ish percent that is not vaxed, that indicates the vax is working very well.