“That said, you have to be careful about what you are watching and reading, because the media has taken sides,” he continued. “So if you only watch Fox News because it's reinforcing what you believe, you are not an informed citizen."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...-who-rely-fox-news-are-not-informed-citizens/
“The media, in my view, and I feel very strongly about this, is not the enemy of the people,” Kelly said. “We need a free media."
Quote for the ages:
But, this is the one which really matters:
Quote for the ages:
But, this is the one which really matters:
So if you only watch MSNBC or CNN you are a brilliantly informed citizen? What a **** of S***!
The media has shown it's self to be a very partisan/biased active participant to remove the president from office.
And we all know that!
Is Fox News not part of the free media? Does Kelly actually believe that MSNBC is better or did he do what he accused Fox News of doing?
Good for General Kelly. I’m glad he’s speaking out. I hope General Mattis follows suit.Quote for the ages:
But, this is the one which really matters:
That’s not what General Kelly said. Why make things up?So if you only watch MSNBC or CNN you are a brilliantly informed citizen? What a **** of S***!
The media has shown it's self to be a very partisan/biased active participant to remove the president from office.
And we all know that!
Yes, Fox is part of the media, the infamous MSM. He didn’t say any was better.Is Fox News not part of the free media? Does Kelly actually believe that MSNBC is better or did he do what he accused Fox News of doing?
So if you only watch MSNBC or CNN you are a brilliantly informed citizen? What a **** of S***!
The media has shown it's self to be a very partisan/biased active participant to remove the president from office.
And we all know that!
**** Kelly! This is one time when “better late than never” just doesn’t get it done. It’s my understanding that these remarks come in paid speeches.
John Kelly deserves contempt, not praise - The Boston Globe
Is Fox News not part of the free media? Does Kelly actually believe that MSNBC is better or did he do what he accused Fox News of doing?
I disagree with the Boston Globe writer. No one knows what General Kelly did behind closed does. I’m inclined to believe he constantly informed the President on the difference between right and wrong. What PABOTUS did after that is on Trump, not Kelly.
As SoS, it wasn’t his duty to leak information to the press or go on speaking tours bitching about how f***ed up Trump was as President.
In another thread, I wrote at length about the dilemma when Bush went General shopping to start a war with, invaded and occupy Iraq. A general could resign and refuse to do it or stay to protect their troops and try to protect them from the idiots in the WH. Kellly faced a similar problem; refuse to become SoS or accept and do his best to protect Americans from an idiot.
Is it?
Trumpsters are constantly talking about Fox as if it were separate from the hated (on Fox and talk radio’s constant instruction) “MSM”.
Indeed, the term MSM is right wing signaling.
The Kelly complaint mentioned in the OP was that (only?) Fox News served up a generous dose of confirmation bias, implying (by simple omission) that the rest of the MSM did not do so. It should be obvious to all that most media bias is accomplished by simple omission - presenting part (one side?) or none of a news event (story or issue) makes that very easy to do.
I fully agree that Fox News is biased, but there are few (if any) news sources which are not serving up generous helpings of confirmation bias based largely on what they do not choose to present, cover or discuss. As the NYT puts it "All the news that's fit to print" - that certainly places an emphasis on their ability (mission?) to decide what in their editorial opinion is fit to present.
Consumers of only conservative media have a recent history distinct from.that of the rest of the world.
A huge part of their hatred for anybody outside of that bubble comes from the simple fact that in their world, horrible horrible things have happened.
That just did not happen. They have adopted the conservative spin on events as the facts of those events.
Which is contrary to consensus reality.
Does all of the media do this stuff? Yeah.
But it isn't coordinated like it is in conservative media. All of the new spin arrives across the conservative media at the same time, using the same verbiage and imagery. Which lends credibility to the spin, but is actually just a technique to lend credibility to spin by sending the same messaging through apparently independent sources that in reality are coordinated.
I fully agree that electing to feast on a steady diet of confirmation bias is bad news, but I do not agree that this is not also true among the MSM which had assured the public for years that Trump (and his campaign staff) had criminally colluded with Putin (and his government officials) to do harm to the Hillary campaign based on nothing provable (verifiable?) at all. Mueller stated that was simply not so long after he knew that to be the case, yet continued to allow his staff to keep on "investigating" in order to try to generate obstruction and/or perjury charges which he knew could not be brought by the DOJ on Trump.
Consumers of only conservative media have a recent history distinct from.that of the rest of the world.
A huge part of their hatred for anybody outside of that bubble comes from the simple fact that in their world, horrible horrible things have happened.
That just did not happen. They have adopted the conservative spin on events as the facts of those events.
Which is contrary to consensus reality.
Does all of the media do this stuff? Yeah.
But it isn't coordinated like it is in conservative media. All of the new spin arrives across the conservative media at the same time, using the same verbiage and imagery. Which lends credibility to the spin, but is actually just a technique to lend credibility to spin by sending the same messaging through apparently independent sources that in reality are coordinated.
lol....Trump is guilty as sin. And, if he faced a real trial by jury would have been convicted hands down.
So if you only watch MSNBC or CNN you are a brilliantly informed citizen? What a **** of S***!
The media has shown it's self to be a very partisan/biased active participant to remove the president from office.
And we all know that!
Hmm... is that why Schiff withheld his (promised?) "proof" of Trump/Russian collusion?
lol....Trump is guilty as sin. And, if he faced a real trial by jury would have been convicted hands down.
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