Our political news is divisive, polarizing and isn’t telling us anything we don’t already know. There’s basically no objective news outlets in the country. They’re either heavily left-leaning or heavily right-leaning, and everyone watches the ones that align with their pre-existing views, which is only reinforcing what we already believe, or is designed to make us angry without offering any actual solutions, which is just tiring.
Where’s the heavily left-leaning news? I’d like to consume some. Late-stage capitalism, rights of labor, single payer healthcare, CEO/corporate greed, abolish cars, eat the rich-type news would be nice to see somewhere.
Not that I’m any kind of authority on the biases of publications, but I tend to think of ProPublica as more about investigative journalism than any political theory.
All three of those publications you list either contribute to or source articles from ProPublica on a regular basis. All three also tend to cite sources and first hand reporting in their articles. You cannot say the same for far right publications, especially rumor mills in the Breitbart, InfoWars, Fox News sphere of influence.
There is absolutely a difference between the “left” and the “right” when it comes to journalism. The patterns I’ve noticed are more rigor in fact checking on the “left”.
However, you bring up a good point in that the media amplifies tribalism. I think social media is amplifying the opinion pieces that drive the wedge issues. Finally, I’m noticing a trend of podcasters sourcing opinion pieces as fact.
Heavily left leaning meaning non authoritarian bigoted racist anti LGBT piece of shit.
There are no mainstream heavily left leaning news channels in USA, they are all right leaning or extreme right.
I think only an extreme right wing American can fail to see that.
and then thinking it’s okay to bury their heads in the sand afterwards.
Our political news is divisive, polarizing and isn’t telling us anything we don’t already know. There’s basically no objective news outlets in the country. They’re either heavily left-leaning or heavily right-leaning, and everyone watches the ones that align with their pre-existing views, which is only reinforcing what we already believe, or is designed to make us angry without offering any actual solutions, which is just tiring.
Where’s the heavily left-leaning news? I’d like to consume some. Late-stage capitalism, rights of labor, single payer healthcare, CEO/corporate greed, abolish cars, eat the rich-type news would be nice to see somewhere.
Just off the top of my head
Where do you think ProPublica stands in that spectrum then?
Not that I’m any kind of authority on the biases of publications, but I tend to think of ProPublica as more about investigative journalism than any political theory.
All three of those publications you list either contribute to or source articles from ProPublica on a regular basis. All three also tend to cite sources and first hand reporting in their articles. You cannot say the same for far right publications, especially rumor mills in the Breitbart, InfoWars, Fox News sphere of influence.
There is absolutely a difference between the “left” and the “right” when it comes to journalism. The patterns I’ve noticed are more rigor in fact checking on the “left”.
However, you bring up a good point in that the media amplifies tribalism. I think social media is amplifying the opinion pieces that drive the wedge issues. Finally, I’m noticing a trend of podcasters sourcing opinion pieces as fact.
Heavily left leaning meaning non authoritarian bigoted racist anti LGBT piece of shit.
There are no mainstream heavily left leaning news channels in USA, they are all right leaning or extreme right.
I think only an extreme right wing American can fail to see that.