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“Media Time Cube” lmao
Rev Left Radio being called “Misleading” is so fucking bonkers to me.
Breht is such a thoughtful and genuine guy. And the show has so many guests on with differing perspectives. Like, yeah ok, some of those guests might say things one disagrees with, are debated within a given field, or are otherwise occasionally incorrect. But the ethos of that show is about getting the listener to know how to think, and thoughtfully approach things, from a broad left perspective. It’s not just feeding you normative claims and calling it a day.
Anyway, go listen to RevLeft, Breht is such a gift
Ad Fontes never analyzed or listened to the show. They noticed that it was “far-left” (it’s in the name!). And far-left = biased = misleading/unfactual, by definition. It’s that simple.
What is Ad Fontes and how did they even know about RevLeft? I feel like RevLeft is pretty off the radar.
Hexbear news thread too far up and left to be on the chart
Lmao at Bill Maher being remotely left. This chart is so lib it might as well be a Harry Potter reference
When you’re a lib, NPR seems like the gospel truth and you feel very smug about listening to it. Before I had fully understood and rejected liberalism (voted for Stein in 2012 out of disgust with Obama, but still had a ways to go), I spent a good few years listening to Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me (their weekly news quiz) religiously. The concept of a news quiz is incredibly enticing to libs–my lib mom loves doing the NYT news quiz every week to test “how much she knows” (i.e. how much propaganda + useless trivia she’s been fed), and I felt the same way about being able to answer questions in WWDTM. And as for the morning and afternoon news programs, they cover a wide variety of (uncontroversial) topics and are Fair and Balanced™ (i.e. they have center-right and far-right guests) which makes you feel worldly and broad-minded.
But as the 2016 presidential campaign dragged on I started to see just how ridiculous their coverage of Bernie was–outright mocking him and his supporters, pretty much, which seemed at odds with their supposedly neutral editorial position. I think the final straw for me was in the early days of the Trump Administration, when they brought on a cavalcade of cartoonishly evil goons from the Trump Administration to lie through their teeth, which the reporters would barely push back on (because that would be partisan!); I remember their “interview” (more of a press release) of Sebastian Gorka right after the Muslim travel ban being particularly shameful. But again, I was already on the path to the left. If you’re a comfortable lib, the actual policies don’t matter–the calm, authoritative voices of the NPR hosts and their unwavering civility in the face of pure evil soothes your mind, and instead of worrying your head about “issues” you just collect “facts” about the events of the week so you can stay “informed”, although since you have no actual political goals there is seemingly no purpose to this other than appearing smart to other libs when you go to brunch.
Citations needed is where NPR News hour sits. It’s centrist, even totally apolitical (just balls and strikes), and extremely fact based and unbiased. If you think it’s left wing it’s because you’re a nazi shit head liar like everyone else in this fucked wasteland we call society and that’s just an unbiased fact.
The lie they’re trying to tell doesn’t even require it to be boomerang shaped, they could fill in the bottom center with trashy tabloid stuff and make it more believable, while still appealing to their audience’s biases.
But they’re so high on their own supply that they can’t take that easy win, so they ranked Joe Rogan as less misleading than revleft.
so they ranked Joe Rogan as less misleading than revleft.
Truly wild.
Rev Left: “This week we have an author talking about their book”
Rogan: “Jamie, pull up that video of those two aliens fucking”
