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Initech

(100,068 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 12:32 AM Feb 2023

Differences Between Left Wing Media And Right Wing Media 101:

This is for Marjorie Greene, Lauren Boebert, Ronny Jackson, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, and others in Congress who are outraged by the fact that DirecTV canceled OAN and Newsmax. Let's go over the differences between left wing media and right wing media.

Left wing media reports real news using things like "facts" and "logic". Left wing media reports news and facts without using outrage and fearmongering.

Right wing media reports the news through heavily manufactured and choreographed talking points, excessive fearmongering and fake outrage which is then filtered through what's called an "echo chamber". And it's called an "echo chamber" because there are literally thousands of shows and hundreds of networks out there that are all selling the exact same product. It's what economists refer to as a "perfectly competitive" industry.

Now let's go over what a fact is, vs what an opinion is.

A fact is something like "There have been 102 mass shootings since January 1st, 2023." Or: "Average global temperatures have increased by 1 degree Fahrenheit."

An opinion is something like: "The department of education is evil and corrupt and must be abolished". Or: "Rhianna's Super Bowl halftime show was demonic in nature".

Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN engage in the latter. They actively engage with the viewers and listeners through graphic imagery and outrageous headlines, which are designed to keep viewers afraid, docile and ignorant, while their nightly talk show hosts and guest stars tell you how to feel and what to think about given issues. That is not reporting the news. That is reporting opinions. This is active brainwashing and mental conditioning. The right wing does not want a well informed population that's capable of critical thinking. They want to keep people uneducated, ill informed, docile, and ignorant. Left wing media does not do that. But then again this is what happens when their favorite president brags about how he loves the poorly educated.

So right wing Congress people - some of which barely passed high school and didn't go to college - you don't need to investigate any further. You're not being silenced because you're a conservative. You're being "silenced" because your opinion channels are the voices of hate, racism, sexism, and division in this country. It's been like this since Rush Limbaugh and even dating back to when Joseph McCarthy was the house speaker.

Fox News, and other channels like it (and that includes streaming sources on the dark corners of the internet like Lindell TV and Infowars), keep people fighting with each other over bullshit culture war issues like M&Ms and Rhianna's half time show, while the right wing consolidates all the wealth and power in this country. It's how they were able to steal two presidential elections, Texas, Florida, and the Supreme Court from us. And they're gearing up to steal 2024.

People are tired of the hate and we want a massive change. This isn't 2016 anymore and your social media shit posting and trolling is so old that it can vote. No one wants to hear the hate and racism that you keep spewing. Turn down the fear mongering.

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calimary

(81,222 posts)
2. The "right-wing media" will tell you what you want to hear to validate
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 02:43 AM
Feb 2023

whatever worldview you want to embrace, even if it's not exactly what you'd call reality-based. It's whatever they want you to know.

On the other hand, the "left-wing media" will tell you what you need to know, because it's based on reality and facts as they are, whether you like 'em or not.

cstanleytech

(26,286 posts)
3. Biggest difference is there is actually very little left wing media.
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 02:50 AM
Feb 2023

Right wing media there is a ton with Fox News the the biggest for the the visual portion of the right wing media but that is dwarfed by the number of right wing radio stations.

GoodRaisin

(8,922 posts)
5. Don't forget Sinclair, pushing "RW opinions" across the country in local markets.
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 03:36 AM
Feb 2023

You can usually spot their propaganda programs late night/weekends, dummifying your neighbors.

Initech

(100,068 posts)
9. Yeah exactly.
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 11:25 AM
Feb 2023

There's hardly any true left wing sources out there. But there's literally thousands of right wing sources out there. And they all say the exact same thing.

JHB

(37,159 posts)
6. What "left wing media" are we talking about?
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 06:01 AM
Feb 2023

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None of the mainstream networks, for certain. Some shows on MSNBC, maybe, but certainly not the whole channel.

Do you mean radio- and web-based shows like Democracy Now!? Magazines like The Nation?

What is this "left wing media" of which you speak?

Because if you use "left wing media" to describe mainstream sources, you are using a definition of "left wing" that does not involve facts and logic but instead accepts the terminology of the Conservative Movement and everybody else on the ranting-crank Right.

And you should stop doing that.

Initech

(100,068 posts)
13. My post yesterday was in response to Marjorie Greene's tweet yesterday.
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 12:34 PM
Feb 2023

Which was wondering why no left wing sources are getting kicked off of social media or satellite TV services, but plenty of right wing ones are. And my point is that there's hardly any true left wing sources out there, but thousands of right wing ones.

JHB

(37,159 posts)
19. Ah. I was missing the context.
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 06:29 PM
Feb 2023

I'm still inclined to use quotes around words and phrases that the Cons have appropriated for their Looney Lexicon.

NJCher

(35,660 posts)
8. Stoke that rage
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 07:11 AM
Feb 2023

IMO, r-wingers are all mad over something and rw media does its level best to keep that anger going by displacing it.

That something they are angry over is important to acknowledge but by falling into this media manipulation trap, they never really get over what has traumatized them. I’m talking about personal tragedy like an untimely death, something along that line.

Thus we have all this personal and societal dysfunction going on.

mathematic

(1,439 posts)
14. If you're not familiar with left wing media then you shouldnt push a (false) dichotomy with rw media
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 12:50 PM
Feb 2023

I mean, this should be self-evident for a long time DUer. Do you think Jack Pine Radicals was attacking democrats from the right? No, they were posting leftist attacks on Democrats. If they're still around, they probably still do.

There are plenty of left wing media that will attack democrats with lies and spin and suggesting that it's only coming from the right wing gives these attacks a free pass.

Initech

(100,068 posts)
15. Yes I'm well aware of JPR.
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 01:08 PM
Feb 2023

Glad they don't exist anymore. I never posted there, but did lurk there on occasion just to see what they were talking about.

But my post yesterday was in response to Marjorie Greene's tweet yesterday (I won't link to it) about how no left wing sources were getting kicked off of social media or satellite TV. It's because true left wing sources are few and far between. I know Newsmax was over a monetary dispute, and I also know they're getting replaced with more right wing shit.

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