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Shell_Seas

(3,336 posts) Tue Sep 29, 2020, 12:42 PM Sep 2020

The Bias of Non-Bias Media

The Revolution isn’t being televised because unless someone breaks a window or sets a trashcan on fire, civil rights and Black liberation isn’t interesting enough for local news to cover. That is the bias of non-bias media.

https://livingbluetx.com/2020/09/bias-of-non-bias-media/

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The Bias of Non-Bias Media (Original Post) Shell_Seas Sep 2020 OP

When I was very young, someone explained that if Mrs. Murphy baked a cake, it was not news... TreasonousBastard Sep 2020 #1

The 2020 Civil Rights Movement should be news... Shell_Seas Sep 2020 #2

Of course it should, but I tend to blame the consumers of news rather than the providers... TreasonousBastard Sep 2020 #3

Me? The latter?....OMG, it just dawned on me. What if I'm abnorman? Shell_Seas Sep 2020 #4

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

1. When I was very young, someone explained that if Mrs. Murphy baked a cake, it was not news...

Reply to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Tue Sep 29, 2020, 12:47 PM

Sep 2020

If she jammed it into Mr. Murphy's face, it was.

Shell_Seas

(3,336 posts)

2. The 2020 Civil Rights Movement should be news...

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 29, 2020, 01:01 PM

Sep 2020

At least I think it should.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

3. Of course it should, but I tend to blame the consumers of news rather than the providers...

Reply to Shell_Seas (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 29, 2020, 01:04 PM

Sep 2020

all media plays to an audience, and if the people would prefer to look at a car wreck rather than engineer's drawing of the road that caused the accident, or driver training problems, that's what they will get.

Shell_Seas

(3,336 posts)

4. Me? The latter?....OMG, it just dawned on me. What if I'm abnorman?

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 29, 2020, 01:43 PM

Sep 2020

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