“The next few episodes of Last Week Tonight are going to be interesting…,” another added, referring to comedian John Oliver’s late-night show, which airs on HBO.
I know Oliver has made comments himself about this. I wonder how he’s going to handle it.
I’d be curious if someone has a curated list of media outlets and websites that started out alright, or at least relatively innocuous, even if they were overly corporate and center-right (like CBS), and then took a hard right turn…
CBS -> fell into Donvict-friendly hands
WashPo -> owned by Bozos
Twitter -> fell into fElon’s hands, now known as Xitter
RealClearPolitics -> was apparently sold to batshit-insane right winger(s).
And so on. I’m not sure of something going the other direction, although some might say that Steve Jobs’ wife is on the left and bought the Atlantic, but…I’ve not really noticed an improvement in Atlantic’s output.
I do have to laugh when someone points at pages like this to “prove” that there really is a “liberal media”. I guess if you basically have nothing actually on the left but the most fringe of things running on a shoestring budget and no audience (like counterpunch for example) and then rank everything that’s remaining - basically all of the spectrum from the center to the extremist radically right wing, the stuff in the center becomes “very left”, lol:
It frustrates me whenever a YouTube channel takes a sponsorship from Ground News, because they treat ideological bias as something that’s evenly balanced and equally problematic from both sides, when in reality the overton window of what counts as left-wing keeps getting dragged further and further to the right with the resurgence of fascism around the world.
I don’t know much about Ground News though I have seen the adverts on channels. I had a co-worker ask if I used it and I tried to not react in a rather hot-take as the idea rather annoys me - that the problem is somehow “too much radicalism on both sides”, whatever.
I still have to laugh about the ratings sites like mediabiasfactcheck.com (remember when things here were getting that robot to rate them via this?) and “allsides.com” (haha! allsides! They should have just called it bothsides, FFS).
I remember someone saying they would not even read an article I linked at Wonkette. I asked what specific facts they took issue with - of course, they would not even read the link in question, but came back with this: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/wonkette/
Oh, right, so again, some random site uses a methodology to scoop up what is largely a spectrum of moderate left (at most) to the extremist ridiculously cartoonish right wing and then put them on a scale. Because there is almost nothing on the far left of any consequence, really, it becomes almost hilariously skewed. Milquetoast “centrist” corporate dreck is classified as liberal, haha.
Anyway, sure, Wonkette has an opinion and they use humor, but they are often a great place to start and they provide references. They even issue corrections and apologies, IIRC.
Alternative to CBS.
CNN Is Set for Trump-Friendly New Owners: How Jake Tapper & Tony Dokoupil Reacted
Found this person’s comment interesting:
I know Oliver has made comments himself about this. I wonder how he’s going to handle it.
I’d be curious if someone has a curated list of media outlets and websites that started out alright, or at least relatively innocuous, even if they were overly corporate and center-right (like CBS), and then took a hard right turn…
CBS -> fell into Donvict-friendly hands WashPo -> owned by Bozos Twitter -> fell into fElon’s hands, now known as Xitter RealClearPolitics -> was apparently sold to batshit-insane right winger(s).
And so on. I’m not sure of something going the other direction, although some might say that Steve Jobs’ wife is on the left and bought the Atlantic, but…I’ve not really noticed an improvement in Atlantic’s output.
I do have to laugh when someone points at pages like this to “prove” that there really is a “liberal media”. I guess if you basically have nothing actually on the left but the most fringe of things running on a shoestring budget and no audience (like counterpunch for example) and then rank everything that’s remaining - basically all of the spectrum from the center to the extremist radically right wing, the stuff in the center becomes “very left”, lol:
https://www.biasly.com/media-bias-chart/us-main/
It frustrates me whenever a YouTube channel takes a sponsorship from Ground News, because they treat ideological bias as something that’s evenly balanced and equally problematic from both sides, when in reality the overton window of what counts as left-wing keeps getting dragged further and further to the right with the resurgence of fascism around the world.
I don’t know much about Ground News though I have seen the adverts on channels. I had a co-worker ask if I used it and I tried to not react in a rather hot-take as the idea rather annoys me - that the problem is somehow “too much radicalism on both sides”, whatever.
I still have to laugh about the ratings sites like mediabiasfactcheck.com (remember when things here were getting that robot to rate them via this?) and “allsides.com” (haha! allsides! They should have just called it bothsides, FFS).
I remember someone saying they would not even read an article I linked at Wonkette. I asked what specific facts they took issue with - of course, they would not even read the link in question, but came back with this: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/wonkette/
Oh, right, so again, some random site uses a methodology to scoop up what is largely a spectrum of moderate left (at most) to the extremist ridiculously cartoonish right wing and then put them on a scale. Because there is almost nothing on the far left of any consequence, really, it becomes almost hilariously skewed. Milquetoast “centrist” corporate dreck is classified as liberal, haha.
Anyway, sure, Wonkette has an opinion and they use humor, but they are often a great place to start and they provide references. They even issue corrections and apologies, IIRC.