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by vinhboy 1523 days ago
> You have a handful of examples you're clinging to, which show some people doing something you don't like, so EVERYONE MUST BE DOING IT.

I feel like more than 50% of this thread right now is doing exactly this and is unaware they are doing it.

To be fair though. There does exist corporations who has a proven history of trying to push a specific point of view, case and point: Fox News.

People assume that since Fox News exists, there must also exist an equal, but opposite: MSNBC, CNN, and (maybe) now Twitter or whatever...

In my opinion, this sort of false equivalencies is extremely counter productive and dangerous to our society.

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Your bias is showing. Case in point; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC_controversies is about as decorated as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies. We live in an age where network news operates to gather eyeballs for ad sells. To pretend that one caters to their target audience where another does not is simply naive.