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Old 14-09-2017, 14:58   #401
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Re: Government & Post Election Discussion

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Originally Posted by Mick View Post
If we are talking about MSM. Sorry but there can be an obvious bias and they will only publish what fits their narrative. The guardian, venomously Anti-Brexit. TheMirror Anti-Tory.
Yes but there are also papers with are venomously pro-Brexit and anti-Labour. It's the nature of a free press. But, for the most part, these are papers who employ actual journalists and break stories. The Guardian exposed the Snowden files, The Telegraph exposed MPs expenses and so on. They may be biased but there is still a journalistic principle at their core.

'Alternative' media is just hyper-partisan blogs written by one to a few people who don't do original reporting. They just campaign for their side.

The MSM have, at least in the past, had to co-exist with the other players as well. They couldn't go totally off-base and hence any major government scandal would cause the government to get flak from all the papers. The Sun supports the Tories but has gone after them, The Guardian went after the Labour government too.

Counter-intuitively the internet has narrowed the bubble people can live in. They can now get their news exposure customised to only these alternative news sources that let them live in the world they prefer. Corbyn can say on the BBC he never met with the IRA and it's 'debunked' by these news sources who attack Andrew Neil for being a stooge of the neoliberal lying MSM even when there are literally pictures of Corbyn meeting the IRA.

People are replacing the old MSM with hyper-partisan blogs/social media that well them what they want to hear, only link to sources with corroborate that, and dismiss everyone else as evil, scheming, liars.
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