Tue Sep 29, 2020, 12:42 PM

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

Response to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Tue Sep 29, 2020, 12:47 PM

TreasonousBastard (42,108 posts)

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

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

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Tue Sep 29, 2020, 01:01 PM

Shell_Seas (3,103 posts)

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

At least I think it should.

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Tue Sep 29, 2020, 01:04 PM

TreasonousBastard (42,108 posts)

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

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.

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Tue Sep 29, 2020, 01:43 PM

Shell_Seas (3,103 posts)

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

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