The thing I keep trying to explain about 'both sides' is that it's a PLEASURE for those who pretend to it. A little hit of dopamine. For a moment you are lifted above the struggling — and slightly pathetic — partisans grasping for temporary advantage on the arena's grimy floor.https://twitter.com/ron_fournier/status/1055999479474618368 …
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Do I think it's untrue? I think the 'both sides' discourse, of which this is a variant, is poisoned at its source. It misleads, even when it generates propositions that might from a sufficient distance be kind of true. By now, no good can come from it— including no good insight.
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Analogies are not the only analytic available to understand multiple perspectives. In this moment, a critical analysis of how power is exercised needs to be included for any of this to yield an insight that’s productive and generative.
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I wrote a piece once about that derisive tone you just took.http://pressthink.org/2013/06/a-few-principles-for-how-i-operate-as-a-critic/ …
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One side’s fears are legitimate (for example: just this week the Trump DOJ reiterated its belief that fed. nondiscrimination laws don’t protect people like me). The other thinks that MS13 members are going to steal their Minnesota lake house.
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This is 100% true, but I also don’t think either side understands the anxieties of the non-voters. People who, rightly or wrongly, don’t think their lives can be improved by anyone.
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Or they’re just complacent or don’t pay attention to what’s happening in the government. I think that makes up the overwhelming majority of non-voters.
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But seriously, Ben, I have a hard time caring about the anxieties of people who scoff and go “both sides are bad” and carry on with their lives like no big deal because they’re shielded from the effects of government policy.
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No I don’t disagree. I think people should vote.
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I’m just much more interested in finding out why they don’t vote, while I have no interest in figuring out why Trump voters support Trump, because o already know that it’s racism/hating poor people/hating other minorities.
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Sure, and that’s important. But I think it’s also important to be realistic that most people who don’t vote probably just don’t care or aren’t clued into politics. But, of non-voters, I’m mostly concerned with people who want to vote, but can’t be of voter suppression efforts.
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Because we make it a total pain in the ass to vote in this country. And people are trying to make it even harder.
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Racism is not legitimate
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I think it's altogether untrue. The Trumpers don't give a damn. They want to create the anxiety.
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The sadism is part of the attraction. Inflicting horror and fear on your "enemy".
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Try being those family members of the two black people killed in Kroger or the guy that was punched at a Trump rally, or the babies locked in cages. Your job is to parse out the difference in Anxiety inducing “ideology” and real harm, to people. Racism harms people. Both sides
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are not the same right now. If you can’t parse the difference, you can’t do Journalism. It’s really that simple.
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This is a false narrative like Trump won the “forgotten people or the “economic anxious” . It’s not true.
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If a narrative is not based in facts, if your coverage of a Political base informs your entire reporting, if you are consumed by a tweet based on lies, and your response is his base doesn’t care, you are not doing Journalism, because for ever action there is cause and affect.
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Reporting from the viewpoint of a minority majority is not Journalism especially if you exclude the majority. Instead of focusing on the reaction of the Policy, just give the facts about the Policy, instead of Democrats say, Republicans say. That’s not Journalism that’s
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stenography. Too often the coverage appears to be a talk show, instead of news. Own your part ...We’ve been having the same conversation for 3 years, it’s the same one. You can’t keep doing the same thing expecting a different result..it’s insane.
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Stop thinking because everyone is criticizing you, you must be doing something right because everyone is mad. No, that’s not true. One side believes in Journalism and wants it to survive, the other thinks you are biased and the “Enemy of the People”.
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This both sides is lazy, because the contrast are stilted and poor. Not fact based. Fournier like others have made a career of it. Insinuation without evidence based on something he did 20 years ago. It’s killing your industry. Good news can be done with truth and evidence
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