• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    Seems like a problem springing from the press’s bias towards neutrality, or how sometimes a politician is objectively wrong but the press treats them with kid gloves for fear of being accused of unfairness.

    They can’t print Trump’s entire 3 minute rant, and they’re scared to characterize it as meandering or incoherent, even if that’s the best description. So, they print a single line from his rant and provide their own context.

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      Towards the appearance of neutrality, you mean. When person A says “2+2=4” and person B says “2+2=5”, “neutrality” is not reporting some kind of false compromise at 4 1/2, but instead factually reporting that person A is correct and person B is wrong!

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        Stop oppressing me with your woke math and shit! It’s my deeply held belief that two plus two equals five!

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        2+2 is actually 5 I’ve read it in a book with a bunch of numbers as a title. its basic knowledge, just like: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

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        You’re confusing neutrality with objectivity.

        Edit: Neutral (adjective): not helping or supporting either side in a conflict, disagreement, etc.

        Are you a big enough baby to downvote because you don’t like what words mean? Neutrality and correctness are two different things. Objectivity does factor in what the facts are, neutrality doesn’t.

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          Perpetuating lies just because one side claims them is neither neutral nor objective!

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      Agreed. Their motivation is money, and there’s more money in keeping the election a neck & neck horse race, even if one of the horses is rabid, lame, and in every way unfit to run. They’ll downplay his blaring faults, and magnify any tiny fault they can find in his competition, just to keep the race “fair” - for ad revenue.

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        They also don’t like to get sued, and Orange Julius has a habit of suing anybody who offends him.

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      Too true, also what we call civility politics. I wouldn’t be surprised if corporate backers prefer it that way.

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    No, they’re begging the devil himself to come tear shit up again because if it bleeds, it leads. They’re professionally negligent, venal narcissists who will say anything for money.

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    that term is hilarious, surprised never seen it before, because this situation started long ago

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      The article talks about how the term has only really started to take off in a big way in the last week or so. (Though the term itself is a fair amount older)

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    It’s absolute malpractice to interpret his incoherent ramblings and turn it into something you writer thinks he might have meant. This guy’s lies and lies… and later on he can say “I never said that” and he would be right.

    The correct reporting on his childcare response would have been: when trump was asked about what specific policies he would further to improve childcare in the US, he rambled incoherently for 4 minutes, about all the money they where going to bring in from other countries via an import tax. The only thing touching on the question was “childcare you have to have it in this country”.

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    More like sucking on his tiny mushroom cock nonstop. See, the media LOVES Trump. For most of them, it’s not because of ideology. It’s because he’s a headline buffet. There will always be more, it will always be more salacious, there is no bottom. Which is great for selling ads attached to what they write, film, and so on.

    Biden? Boring. Harris? Booring. But Trump? Trump will always be a lalapalooza of insanity. And to the current celebrity media, that’s all that counts.

    Sad thing is they’re gonna get us all killed with that shit.