Originally Posted by
Morgs153
I have told many people that the biggest losers in the last election were - the media.
As accurately pointed out, they chose to become partisan and try to take out Trump from moment one. Their blatant partisanship was on display for all. If you disliked Orange Man Bad, you were okay with it. If you were a Trump supporter, all you could do was continually point it out.
Today's media is not the fact finders of the past. Some are, there are some independent journos out there who do a very good job but as a news consumer you must find them. Glenn Greenwald, John Solomon, Sharyl Attkisson and some others come to mind. Even today's Fox is going down a wormhole after the Murdoch kids took over.
In this day of instant data, the news sites know who their consumers are and they skew their coverage for their consumers. If CNN, MSNBC, and the big three MSMs know their consumers are by and large liberal, you'll get liberal coverage from them. Same for NYT or Wapo. They ignore and downplay anything that goes against their narrative. Hell, they have admitted it! They censor by omission when they don't even run certain stories.
Gone are the days of reporting on the facts and letting you decide. You now have to digest news from various sources to be able to come close to that.
I like the way that folks point out how Facebook is a private entity and they can do what they want. Sure, tell that to a bakery shop owner who doesn't want to make a certain kind of cake. Or, if you don't like FB or Twitter, start your own. Sure, and then big tech won't let you on servers so you can compete on even ground. Stuff like that sounds a lot like anti-trust violations and collusion.
I'm old enough to remember when my folks phone service had a party line. The phone company was a private entity acting like a public utility. Today's FB is like a party line. They hold themselves out as this virtuous platform for free speech but they are not. They are like the old fashioned party line but when they listen in on your conversation and don't like what you're saying - they cut off your service.