Kevin Simler

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.

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).”

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.

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.