CitizenBBN
08-31-2016, 07:56 PM
For those who talk about "Faux News" as if presenting a non-"government is the answer" perspective is somehow biased or outside proper journalism, here's a great example of how media bias really works (in a story about Kaepernick)
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/31/bias-alert-press-ignores-kaepernicks-hillary-for-prison-remark.html
An excerpt:
Here is what he told the team’s beat writers about Clinton at the Sunday media session, (http://ninerswire.usatoday.com/2016/08/28/transcript-colin-kaepernick-addresses-sitting-during-national-anthem/) where he announced he would sit for the national anthem.
“You have Hillary who has called black teens or black kids 'super predators,' you have Donald Trump who’s openly racist,” Kaepernick told reporters. “We have a presidential candidate who has deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me because if that was any other person you’d be in prison. So, what is this country really standing for?”
So Kaepernick believes Hillary Clinton has used racially insulting terms and belongs in prison.
NewsBusters conducted a Google News search (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-blumer/2016/08/30/press-reports-kaepernicks-comment-trump-ignores-his-prison-comment) using the terms “Kaepernick, Trump and openly racist” a day later and got 48 results. Yet a search using the terms “Kaepernick, Clinton and prison” returned just four. The only item on the Clinton remarks to appear in a major press outlet was an article in The Washington Post, according to NewsBusters.
The Associated Press ran a story noting Kaepernick's description of Trump, but left out his remarks about Clinton.
That's how it works. They bury the stories that hurt their side, and it is very much "their side", and run like the world is going to end with stories that support their myopic view of the world.
That doesn't also mention that CNN this week edited an actual quote of a Trump tweet to take the "Crooked" out of "Crooked Hillary". that is a deeply serious breach of journalism and basic ethics. You'd get hit hard doing that in a term paper without noting the edit. In debate it would roast your career, but this is CNN doing this stuff. The list goes on and on, but I thought this was a great example b/c it avoids speculation.
This guy talked about both Trump and Clinton badly in the same press statement, but only one got reported. It's simply so airtight it's a great example.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/31/bias-alert-press-ignores-kaepernicks-hillary-for-prison-remark.html
An excerpt:
Here is what he told the team’s beat writers about Clinton at the Sunday media session, (http://ninerswire.usatoday.com/2016/08/28/transcript-colin-kaepernick-addresses-sitting-during-national-anthem/) where he announced he would sit for the national anthem.
“You have Hillary who has called black teens or black kids 'super predators,' you have Donald Trump who’s openly racist,” Kaepernick told reporters. “We have a presidential candidate who has deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me because if that was any other person you’d be in prison. So, what is this country really standing for?”
So Kaepernick believes Hillary Clinton has used racially insulting terms and belongs in prison.
NewsBusters conducted a Google News search (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-blumer/2016/08/30/press-reports-kaepernicks-comment-trump-ignores-his-prison-comment) using the terms “Kaepernick, Trump and openly racist” a day later and got 48 results. Yet a search using the terms “Kaepernick, Clinton and prison” returned just four. The only item on the Clinton remarks to appear in a major press outlet was an article in The Washington Post, according to NewsBusters.
The Associated Press ran a story noting Kaepernick's description of Trump, but left out his remarks about Clinton.
That's how it works. They bury the stories that hurt their side, and it is very much "their side", and run like the world is going to end with stories that support their myopic view of the world.
That doesn't also mention that CNN this week edited an actual quote of a Trump tweet to take the "Crooked" out of "Crooked Hillary". that is a deeply serious breach of journalism and basic ethics. You'd get hit hard doing that in a term paper without noting the edit. In debate it would roast your career, but this is CNN doing this stuff. The list goes on and on, but I thought this was a great example b/c it avoids speculation.
This guy talked about both Trump and Clinton badly in the same press statement, but only one got reported. It's simply so airtight it's a great example.