(04-26-2022 08:00 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  Sorry if I push back on the Quad narrative that Democrats are mindless automatons who march in whatever direction CNN sends them. I mean... of course a huge swath of Democratic voters are but then so are the Republican voters.

Who ever said the bold? I think what OO is saying is that 'whatever direction CNN (ABC, CBS, CNBC, Hollywood etc) sends' Democrats is VASTLY more one sided than whatever direction Fox does. Its one thing not to report something... It's something entirely different to report something you know, or SHOULD as a journalist know is misleading/opinionated. Yes, both sides do this, but especially when it came to Trump, he wasn't exactly a darling of Fox...

Quote:It's like if I parked on the street in my neighborhood where one isn't allowed to park there overnight and my neighbor came over the next morning to complain about my car. Then I pointed out that he happened to park on the street overnight as well and his response was "Nice whataboutism, bro!".

Almost by admission, Fox exists PURELY because the rest of media was leaning so far left. Their tag line was always 'fair and balanced', but what I think they meant was that because everyone else went so far left, them being to the right made things fair and balanced.

So its more like your neighbor doing what you say, but only because you seem to be able to do it with impunity... so why should he have to walk 6 blocks when he can just do what you do?