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by Grustaf 1594 days ago
Do you actually think channels like CNN get their left leaning bias from reading twitter, rather than their owners? And I suppose fox gets its bias from listening to Joe Rogan?
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Who are the liberal owners of CNN? I thought they were all just trying to make money.

Rupert Murdoch, on the other hand, has a history of running news at a loss to push his angle.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/11/rupert-murdoch...

Ted Turner I guess, at least until now?
> Do you actually think channels like CNN get their left leaning bias from reading twitter, rather than their owners?

That's not my claim. I'm claiming that if you actually watch CNN, they tend to literally put a camera to a big computer monitor and show you a bunch of people's tweets. I'm not talking about bias/etc here, I'm talking about how they literally feature tweets as part of their news coverage.

Of the typical stories on CNN that one would qualify as "cancel culture", they typically go something like: "<Celebrity A> said a controversial thing on Twitter! Let's take a look at some of the reactions..." etc etc. Their coverage seems to be focused on "what do the people think of X", all the damned time. Yes, this makes CNN quite useless as a news organization.