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Here’s a suggestion for assignment editors at the large national media outlets who have provided us with an endless stream of stories about Trump voters in rural diners over the past half-decade: Try instead reporting on what it’s become like for non-Trump voters in these rural red areas where the politics of menace and thuggery have taken over—sort of an inverted version of the cliché; the rural Biden voter who can barely show his face at the local café. The reality.
anyone who doesn't know the mainstream media has a serious bias towards conservative/hardcore conservative ideology isn't paying attention. They will cover the major news stories that involve the day-to-day acts of domestic terrorism only because they must, making sure to get that 'both-siderism' angle in there to absolve the terrorists. And they'll send 5 crews out to cover a ragtag mob of right wing nutjobs standing on the corner screaming whatever slogan every time. Even on supposedly lib'rul NBC, people like Chuck Todd and right winger Alan Greenspan's wife Andrea Mitchell (as she totally ignores every upbeat story about liberal progress and pounces on a bad Biden poll number immediately). And CNN's Bull Shitzer repeats right wing dogma instinctively, never misses a beat. Fox now employs many ex-CNN newsparrots, Wallace being only the latest on (also Alisyn Camerota, Bill Hemmer, Shep Smith, Howard Kurtz etc etc) all went home to Fox. It's a natural digression......from basically right wing news/opinion, to definitely far right propaganda (most of it imported straight from Russia). If it wasn't for the few sane CNN hosts still there and for most of MSNBC's crew we'd be relying on C-SPAN and PBS to avoid Newspeak:
Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. In the novel, the Party created Newspeak to meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism in Oceania. Newspeak is a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual's ability to think and articulate "subversive" concepts such as personal identity, self-expression and free will. Such concepts are criminalized as thoughtcrime since they contradict the prevailing Ingsoc orthodoxy.
In "The Principles of Newspeak", the appendix to the novel, Orwell explains that Newspeak follows most of the rules of English grammar, yet is a language characterised by a continually diminishing vocabulary; complete thoughts are reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning. The political contractions of Newspeak—Ingsoc (English Socialism), Minitrue (Ministry of Truth), Miniplenty (Ministry of Plenty)—are described by Orwell as similar to real examples of German and Russian contractions in the 20th century. Like Nazi (Nationalsozialist), Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei), politburo (Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), Comintern (Communist International), kolkhoz (collective farm), and Komsomol (Young Communists' League), the contractions in Newspeak, often syllabic abbreviations, are supposed to have a political function already in virtue of their abbreviated structure itself: nice sounding and easily pronounceable, their purpose is to mask all ideological content from the speaker. ~ wiki
anyone who doesn't know the mainstream media has a serious bias towards conservative/hardcore conservative ideology isn't paying attention. They will cover the major news stories that involve the day-to-day acts of domestic terrorism only because they must, making sure to get that 'both-siderism' angle in there to absolve the terrorists. And they'll send 5 crews out to cover a ragtag mob of right wing nutjobs standing on the corner screaming whatever slogan every time. Even on supposedly lib'rul NBC, people like Chuck Todd and right winger Alan Greenspan's wife Andrea Mitchell (as she totally ignores every upbeat story about liberal progress and pounces on a bad Biden poll number immediately). And CNN's Bull Shitzer repeats right wing dogma instinctively, never misses a beat. Fox now employs many ex-CNN newsparrots, Wallace being only the latest on (also Alisyn Camerota, Bill Hemmer, Shep Smith, Howard Kurtz etc etc) all went home to Fox. It's a natural digression......from basically right wing news/opinion, to definitely far right propaganda (most of it imported straight from Russia). If it wasn't for the few sane CNN hosts still there and for most of MSNBC's crew we'd be relying on C-SPAN and PBS to avoid Newspeak:
Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. In the novel, the Party created Newspeak to meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism in Oceania. Newspeak is a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual's ability to think and articulate "subversive" concepts such as personal identity, self-expression and free will. Such concepts are criminalized as thoughtcrime since they contradict the prevailing Ingsoc orthodoxy.
In "The Principles of Newspeak", the appendix to the novel, Orwell explains that Newspeak follows most of the rules of English grammar, yet is a language characterised by a continually diminishing vocabulary; complete thoughts are reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning. The political contractions of Newspeak—Ingsoc (English Socialism), Minitrue (Ministry of Truth), Miniplenty (Ministry of Plenty)—are described by Orwell as similar to real examples of German and Russian contractions in the 20th century. Like Nazi (Nationalsozialist), Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei), politburo (Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), Comintern (Communist International), kolkhoz (collective farm), and Komsomol (Young Communists' League), the contractions in Newspeak, often syllabic abbreviations, are supposed to have a political function already in virtue of their abbreviated structure itself: nice sounding and easily pronounceable, their purpose is to mask all ideological content from the speaker. ~ wiki
She has one son who is liberal and the other is even more politically conservative than I am. Christmases are interesting at her house but haven’t heard of any knock down, drag outs yet.