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by godelski 2213 days ago
> In what sense are CBS, CNN, and the Washington Post hard left?

>> The issue here is that everything here is considered the hard left of the media by Fox viewers.

Maybe the edit here makes the statement clearer because before it was implicit.
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jolux 2213 days ago
I'm still not seeing the edit, but honestly Fox News viewers seeing CBS as substantively representing the left in any capacity is a large part of the problem here. Fortunately not everyone who matters believes only Fox News and nothing else.
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godelski 2213 days ago
The edit was "by Fox News viewers" which was previously implicit. To them these are hard left, but to moderates and the left they aren't. It is a matter of perspective.

> but honestly Fox News viewers seeing CBS as substantively representing the left in any capacity is a large part of the problem here.

This is something I agree with and is actually the crux of my post.

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jolux 2213 days ago
Hmmm, okay. I missed your point then. My bad.
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godelski 2213 days ago
Apparently, given how many downvotes I have, you aren't alone. Given that I'm agreeing with a lot of people that are arguing with me, I'm pretty sure it was my messaging. I think part of that is that since we are so politicized and language requires us to fill in parts that because I tried to dampen it to those on the right that it came off as supporting them.

Pretty much my point was: this links to only stuff on the left and so it gives the right an easy target to point to to continue with their claim (which I believe is false) that the left media is trying to control the people.

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jolux 2213 days ago
Yeah, except those aren't left wing sites. The problem is not the lack of balance, and I think your words keep making it seem like it is. There aren't reliable conservative sources on these issues, and the sources that are linked are all moderate. At this point conservatives will pretty much call anything or anyone that disagrees with them leftist, so it doesn't really matter what sources you put there so long as they're reflecting anything close to the truth.
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godelski 2213 days ago
> Yeah, except those aren't left wing sites.

I believe most people would consider them left wing. But that doesn't matter because it is a matter of perspective.

> he problem is not the lack of balance, and I think your words keep making it seem like it is.

The problem isn't that, the problem is I was saying that this is going to happen (which didn't take very long):

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12654275381401886...

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