[salimmadjd]

The same polarizing media conveniently blamed Facebook and Twitter (though to a lesser extent) for all the polarization that they have been fomenting for years. I guess that move wasn’t as surprising for me as seeing the number of people in SV who bought into that narrative.

Corporate media should not really be thought of as real journalistic entities.

Simple example. How in the world does CNN allow Chris Cuomo to interview his own brother. The fact that no one inside CNN publicly objected to this, walked away, protested, it tells me everything I need to know about the entire organization.

I don’t remember anyone at MSNBC making a fuss about it, nor at the Washington Post (Democracy Dies in Darkness).

[kurthr]

Hmmm, yeah no. Whether it's Vanity Fair or other "liberal scions", they're as likely to point out the issues with this sort of self-serving coverage as your favorite hand wringer on Fox News, who themselves are almost entirely "entertainment" and have so much obvious conflict of interest in their coverage... and if the Jan 6 SMS messages are to be believed, simple out right lying.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/02/chris-cuo...

[zimpenfish]

> How in the world does CNN allow Chris Cuomo to interview his own brother.

To be fair to CNN, they did ban that from 2013 until it was temporarily lifted in 2020 because "Chris speaking with his brother about the challenges of what millions of American families were struggling with was of significant human interest"[1].

It was definitely a bad judgement call but hardly damning of the whole organisation.

[1] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2021/02/19/cn...