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by thegrim33 18 days ago
Don't forget when it comes to things like this - if in this case IBM ever had an astoundingly good day, CNN would never write an article about it, and you'd never see it on HN. They choose the picture of reality to install in the reader's minds by selectively choosing what news to report on vs. what to ignore.
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GrinningFool 18 days ago
It's often interesting to see what the major US news orgs - right and left - are choosing to share with their readers. You see two completely different versions of reality.
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bestouff 18 days ago
Are there significant left-leaning major news orgs in the US (genuine question) ?
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jleyank 18 days ago
Left-leaning and major? No. Considering the countries that the US is compared to, there's not really a centre-leading major news source, either.
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Vaslo 18 days ago
CNN is pretty far left and kind of major.
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justaman123 17 days ago
You only think this because the Overton window has shifted so far to the right that the center right CNN appears far left because of how far right the ruling party is.
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bestouff 17 days ago
Wow ... CNN is definitively not left-leaning. It fully buys into the capitalist ideal. It's more like neoliberal. That's not what I had in mind when I said "left".
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xtiansimon 17 days ago
I don’t understand this comment—

“Don't forget when it comes to things like this…”

Financial news?

“…if in this case IBM ever had an astoundingly good day, CNN would never write an article about it, and you'd never see it on HN.”

You have a private idea about the way the world works, but you’re not sharing a hint of the editorial decisions you believe are in effect.

> “They choose the picture of reality to install in the reader's minds by selectively choosing what news to report on vs. what to ignore”

Failing to express your ideas of why the editorial choices are suspect, I venture to wonder on your concept of communication itself.

All writing is selective—choosing a subject and the interpretive community you are writing for.

Meanwhile, your comment is itself an unsubstantiated warning message to this community.

Hmm. Almost as if the accusation is a confession.

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