STEELMANNING THREAD! (something to try now that we all have 280...) Rules: 1a. Post arguments/positions you'd like to see steeled. —or— 1b. Jump in and help steel the args/positions others have posted. 2. NO DEBATES. Only argue *in favor* of the point in question. 3. Be kind.
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Can anyone help me understand this one?: “The mainstream media (e.g., CNN) are ‘fake news’ or in some other way a real problem for us (in their current form).”
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Replying to @KevinSimler
News is reported, in words and in sentences, by human people with human biases; as much as they, and their orgs, try, their language will remain tinted, if not tainted, by those biases. What we call things is how we understand them, and vice versa.
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Replying to @laura_yao @KevinSimler
Journalism attracts a more liberal cohort, perhaps -- those who want to expose injustice, to give voices to those without. And eventually, the liberal journalists with their liberal words seep into, take over, and control the public discourse.
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Cool, yeah. I can also imagine the same argument, but with "liberal" swapped out for "elite" or "establishment" or some other nebulous interest group/source of bias.
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