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She looking HANDSOME and handled everything BEAUTIFULLY. She doesn't have to answer questions of a lib
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Imagine hitching your economy is doing great wagon to an index that can lose and entire year’s worth of gains in 5 days
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Good thing we will be able to use tax cuts and quantitative easing to boost spending to get us out of the next recession.
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The mass media finna screw over the Democrats again. Gonna do Prime just like they did Hillary.
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Definitely the best Supa Man Luva installment and definitely Redman’s best album
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Yup
, somehow more time has been spent picking apart the potential Dem noms over the day to day absurdities coming from the actual sitting prez and admin in recent months.Goes back to how the media have managed to normalize an abnormal presidency and treat it as business as usual even though that hasn't been the case for almost 4 years now...
They hardly ever actually call out in depth the very real and destructive actions and decisions taken by him out of some misguided sense of objectivity while holding the oppositions potential nominees to a much higher standard and nit picking and debating their every move and comment ad nauseum.
The cynic in me believes that these networks and papers believe that 45 has been a boon for their business while he's been in power but you would think the actual journalists they employ can see past the need for ratings and clicks and would have the best long term interests of the country in mind but the way they go about their coverage makes you wonder sometimes
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Say word? That's crazy
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I mean it might sound obvious in an American context but that legit isn't the case elsewhere in a lot of developed countries outside of the UK where they have the same problem, maybe even worse.
'News' orgs putting business considerations ahead of everything else is never worthwhile in the long run.
At least not for everyday people or for the health of self styled democracies.
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This is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Literally a tweet for everything
Trump is the king of projection.
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He gets away with all the lying because most people have never met someone who lies repeatedly about everything
Man that handwriting is hilarious
Same ol' illusion of "I'm one of you guys"
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Supreme Leader knows all.This is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Literally a tweet for everything
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dude just the epitome of "who smelt it, dealt it"
he literally pointing fingers because he knows the dirty shhh he'd be doing.. and now is doing
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Don't do it Yang
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Don't do it Yang
How is he going to have a running mate without coming close to winning the nomination?
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How much he paying Yang for his endorsement? A couple milli?
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A stipend of $1,000 a month for the rest of Yang's natural life.
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I mean it might sound obvious in an American context but that legit isn't the case elsewhere in a lot of developed countries outside of the UK where they have the same problem, maybe even worse.
'News' orgs putting business considerations ahead of everything else is never worthwhile in the long run.
At least not for everyday people or for the health of self styled democracies.
If you’re a democrat you should just boycott them. If people stop watching they will have to support Bernie.
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Also all these dems were saying vote blue no matter who. What happened? They are all salty now.
like washed Hillary and her beef with Bernie. You wanna help the party? Endorse trump, that will really throw his supporters off.
like washed Hillary and her beef with Bernie. You wanna help the party? Endorse trump, that will really throw his supporters off.
The balance fallacy is an informal logical fallacy that occurs when two sides of an argument are assumed to have equal or comparable value regardless of their respective merits, which (in turn) can lead to the conclusion that the answer to a problem is always to be found between two extremes. The latter is effectively an inverse false dilemma, discarding the two extremes rather than the middle.
While the rational position on a topic is often between two extremes, this cannot be assumed without actually considering the evidence. Sometimes the extreme position is actually the correct one, and sometimes the entire spectrum of belief is wrong, and truth exists in an orthogonal direction that hasn't yet been considered.
Balance is often a problem in the media, where confrontational or adversarial journalism might present more of a controversy about some topic than actually exists, giving equal time to fringe minority viewpoints to draw in viewers. It is effectively the opposite of bias — whereas bias over-emphasises one view to the detriment of another legitimate, well-supported view to give the impression of one being favoured, false balance over-emphasises a minority or unsupported view to the detriment of a well-supported view to give the impression that neither is favoured.
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Little wonder why PBS is the lone outlier.
"giving equal time to fringe minority viewpoints to draw in viewers" = corporate owned media.
The business of business is business,.
Corporate owned media exists to generate profits via viewership ratings which equate to ad revenue.
The faces you see speaking to you are millionaires who are owned by billionaires.
They act accordingly and so should we.
While the rational position on a topic is often between two extremes, this cannot be assumed without actually considering the evidence. Sometimes the extreme position is actually the correct one, and sometimes the entire spectrum of belief is wrong, and truth exists in an orthogonal direction that hasn't yet been considered.
Balance is often a problem in the media, where confrontational or adversarial journalism might present more of a controversy about some topic than actually exists, giving equal time to fringe minority viewpoints to draw in viewers. It is effectively the opposite of bias — whereas bias over-emphasises one view to the detriment of another legitimate, well-supported view to give the impression of one being favoured, false balance over-emphasises a minority or unsupported view to the detriment of a well-supported view to give the impression that neither is favoured.
Balance fallacy
The balance fallacy is an informal logical fallacy that occurs when two sides of an argument are assumed to have equal or comparable value regardless of their respective merits, which (in turn) can lead to the conclusion that the answer to a problem is always to be found between two extremes...
Little wonder why PBS is the lone outlier.
"giving equal time to fringe minority viewpoints to draw in viewers" = corporate owned media.
The business of business is business,.
Corporate owned media exists to generate profits via viewership ratings which equate to ad revenue.
The faces you see speaking to you are millionaires who are owned by billionaires.
They act accordingly and so should we.
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Bern looking like he will have a strong plurality. So before it even gets to the convention, Beezy probably gonna endorse him, and every salty Dem gonna have to just swallow it. Come convention time, Bams gonna walking around the arena, smacking the fire out of anyone even thinking about staging a coup. And making sure they are only worried about one thing ...
The media just wants to fan the flames until then. I'm not worried.
The media just wants to fan the flames until then. I'm not worried.
