[dang]

There are a lot of users on both sides of the topic, just like there on other controversial topics. But it always feels like the "mainstream" opinion is being the one most opposed to your own. The confident generalizations people make about HN are nearly all based on this feeling. That's why they contradict one another.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hostile%20media%20effect%22...

[dsfyu404ed]

I'm "anti-Boeing" here though and even I don't see much controversy. Everyone who isn't down-voted seems to think Boeing is solidly at fault to varying extents. There's no hostile media effect going on (from my POV on this issue).

[dang]

There have been plenty of comments defending Boeing and not being downvoted, though probably not as many as are critical. That's a function of it being an indignation story, though. Indignation always wins.