• PugJesus@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I agree with your broader point that there’s a deeper issue with American voters who want fascism, but the normalization of far-right politics with ‘both sides’ horse-race bullshit has fed that problem, and very often there still is pushback to Trump and his ilk being described with the correct terms in the media. Only a few (relatively) left-leaning outlets note it with any regularity.

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      11 months ago

      I know I kind of went off on a rant there, it wasn’t pointed at you. I follow ABC, CNN, NBC, MSNBC pretty regularly, and all of those are now (over the last few weeks) consistently reporting the real danger in real terms (MSNBC leads by a country mile, of course).

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        11 months ago

        Really? I haven’t followed CNN closely in years, but they were always pretty wishy-washy, and what articles I’ve seen from them recently have been very… ‘both sides’.

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          11 months ago

          Ah, I’m watching clips from broadcasts on YouTube. Maybe broadcast and print are handling things differently?

          I’ll note that ABC has been on point with a lot of scoops. They’ve got to have a contact inside somewhere in relation to the many notable civil and criminal trials going on.

          I had checked out on CNN for a while, too, since they shifted pretty center-right, but figured I should keep up with them in order to stay aware of what that perspective is. I’ll catch a Fox News bit here and there, but I’m not putting them in my feed. If you have any other suggestions, I welcome them.