If it ever seems like half of the country lives in a different world

[ReverseCowbell]

It’s because they do

These are screenshots from the Ground News app. It shows how many left/right/middle news outlets report on each story. Red bars represent left-leaning outlets, blue for the right, and white for the ”neutral” sources.

 

[Dawg Raid]

Just don’t watch the news and or read news from big media. Get your “news” from people that are not affiliated and then decide for yourself

 

[85Bears]

Just don’t watch the news and or read news from big media. Get your “news” from people that are not affiliated and then decide for yourself

Legacy media is garbage

 

[dawgman42]

Water is wet.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

It’s because they do

These are screenshots from the Ground News app. It shows how many left/right/middle news outlets report on each story. Red bars represent left-leaning outlets, blue for the right, and white for the left”neutral” sources.



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Haven't seen this one. I've suggest allsides.com before, as I find value in identifying my blind spots. However, as the algorithms for social platforms have found, most people just want a healthy dose of whatever they already believe so that they don't have to consider any nuance or experience any mental dissonance that occurs when their current beliefs are challenged or they realize that there is more to the world than whatever their political affiliation feeds them...

 

[ronpolk]

Just don’t watch the news and or read news from big media. Get your “news” from people that are not affiliated and then decide for yourself

I get my news from watching paindonthurt and golfer fight about every topic****

 

[ReverseCowbell]

Water is wet.

Ah, but is it? Does it know it’s wet? Is it wet before it’s observed to be wet?

These are questions.

 

[dorndawg]

Sounds like the Iran war is wrapping up any day now - see, I had missed that!

 

[onewoof]

Shocking. News wants you angry, sad or afraid.

Peace is not profitable except on Sundays.

 

[dawgman42]

Ah, but is it? Does it know it’s wet? Is it wet before it’s observed to be wet?

These are questions.

Sorry, it's trans-matter. #June

 

[ReverseCowbell]

Sorry, it's trans-matter. #June

Not that’s there’s anything wrong with that.

 

[onewoof]

be nice, they may off theyselves 20 others

 

[The Peeper]

I get my news from watching paindonthurt and golfer fight about every topic****

I noticed that trend happening too often, so, probably a year or more ago I "Ignored" golfer in the settings section of this fine online news source and life was better. About two weeks ago I had enough of pains rants and taking over a whole thread too so I added paindonthurt to that list and now life is all "champaign wishes and caviar dreams". They are the only two so far to reach that milestone.

 

[Dawgbite]

Ah, but is it? Does it know it’s wet? Is it wet before it’s observed to be wet?

These are questions.

Is water wet if nobody feels it?

 

[PapaDawg]

Can wet water identify as dry water or maybe non-wet water or even wet dirt

 

[dickiedawg]

Just don’t watch the news and or read news from big media. Get your “news” from people that are not affiliated and then decide for yourself

Can you give an example of where you might get news from someone who is “unaffiliated”?

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Just don’t watch the news and or read news from big media. Get your “news” from people that are not affiliated and then decide for yourself

That’s not bad advice, but it can also be biased as well. A news aggregate site like what is in the OP is a good place to start. The biggest thing that you can do for yourself is not be caught in an echo chamber.

 

[patdog]

That’s not bad advice, but it can also be biased as well. A news aggregate site like what is in the OP is a good place to start. The biggest thing that you can do for yourself is not be caught in an echo chamber.

I get all my news from this website. That's a slight exaggeration, but not a huge one.

 

[YesIAmAPirate]

How can water be liquid if it is comprised of hydrogen and oxygen, 2 gasses?

 

[Dawg Raid]

Can you give an example of where you might get news from someone who is “unaffiliated”?

Twitter and sixpackspeak breaking news

 

[ckDOG]

Sounds like the Iran war is wrapping up any day now - see, I had missed that!

Is this the 38th or 39th time?

 

[HailStout]

When all the stuff was happening with fraud in Minnesota I was having a hard time determining exactly what role the governor played. Was he complicit? Was he just incompetent? Was he really just there but since it happened on his watch he was going to have to answer for it to some degree? So I tried to figure it out. I couldn’t. Every article I found had a bias either to the left or to the right. I finally gave up. Now I know some of you are going to tell me that I just have to know how to do it, etc, etc. that’s the problem. I don’t have the time to do that. We are not informed as a society. And the majority of those of us that think we are informed are really living in echo chambers.

it’s okay to support Trump and still question what the hell he is doing with Iran or the economy

it’s okay to support the Democratic Party and still call them out for the lunacy of going all in on something as ungodly unpopular as trans atheletes

it is the job of the media to do that, but they don’t anymore. Not both ways anyhow. They have their audiences and they cater to them. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s simply capitalism. And capitalism and reporting the news do not blend.

 

[Walkthedawg]

Journalism is dead and rotting. It's nothing more than programming now to try to hold eyes and sell advertising. Thats it. Thats all.

"Journalists" have become pushers of their own opinions to substitute as "facts" and they sort and slice incoming information to substantiate that opinion. The networks aggregate the "journalists" with the same opinions together to hold the eyes they want to.

Think of how difficult it really is to do that job in today's environment. Not very. Especially when all you do is stick a microphone in someone's face that you know is going to say what they want and they sit their and bobble head through the whole thing. And people hang on to the words of less than brilliant people like they are the arbiters of truth.

The country should have an unbiased and functioning press... but it is worse off with hoards of opinion peddlers that amplify what government stooges want to be said instead of checking, analyzing, and truthfully reporting.

 

[HailStout]

it goes both ways as well.

Once again, it’s okay to support Trump, but this kind of discourse with the press helps no one.

also. Sorry, mods.

 

[HailStout]

Journalism is dead and rotting. It's nothing more than programming now to try to hold eyes and sell advertising. Thats it. Thats all.

"Journalists" have become pushers of their own opinions to substitute as "facts" and they sort and slice incoming information to substantiate that opinion. The networks aggregate the "journalists" with the same opinions together to hold the eyes they want to.

Think of how difficult it really is to do that job in today's environment. Not very. Especially when all you do is stick a microphone in someone's face that you know is going to say what they want and they sit their and bobble head through the whole thing. And people hang on to the words of less than brilliant people like they are the arbiters of truth.

The country should have an unbiased and functioning press... but it is worse off with hoards of opinion peddlers that amplify what government stooges want to be said instead of checking, analyzing, and truthfully reporting.

Well said

 

[FreeDawg]

why in the hell would they make red bars left leaning and blue bars right leaning?

 

[ReverseCowbell]

When all the stuff was happening with fraud in Minnesota I was having a hard time determining exactly what role the governor played. Was he complicit? Was he just incompetent? Was he really just there but since it happened on his watch he was going to have to answer for it to some degree? So I tried to figure it out. I couldn’t. Every article I found had a bias either to the left or to the right. I finally gave up. Now I know some of you are going to tell me that I just have to know how to do it, etc, etc. that’s the problem. I don’t have the time to do that. We are not informed as a society. And the majority of those of us that think we are informed are really living in echo chambers.

it’s okay to support Trump and still question what the hell he is doing with Iran or the economy

it’s okay to support the Democratic Party and still call them out for the lunacy of going all in on something as ungodly unpopular as trans atheletes

it is the job of the media to do that, but they don’t anymore. Not both ways anyhow. They have their audiences and they cater to them. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s simply capitalism. And capitalism and reporting the news do not blend.

Said another way, the viewers are dependent on a media that is dependent on the viewers.

If it came in a box it would have a starburst reading “NEW AND IMPROVED with MORE ALGO’s!!!”

 

[Called3rdstrikedawg]

How can water be liquid if it is comprised of hydrogen and oxygen, 2 gasses?

Because it is 2 parts hydrogen.

 

[ckDOG]

When all the stuff was happening with fraud in Minnesota I was having a hard time determining exactly what role the governor played. Was he complicit? Was he just incompetent? Was he really just there but since it happened on his watch he was going to have to answer for it to some degree? So I tried to figure it out. I couldn’t. Every article I found had a bias either to the left or to the right. I finally gave up. Now I know some of you are going to tell me that I just have to know how to do it, etc, etc. that’s the problem. I don’t have the time to do that. We are not informed as a society. And the majority of those of us that think we are informed are really living in echo chambers.

it’s okay to support Trump and still question what the hell he is doing with Iran or the economy

it’s okay to support the Democratic Party and still call them out for the lunacy of going all in on something as ungodly unpopular as trans atheletes

it is the job of the media to do that, but they don’t anymore. Not both ways anyhow. They have their audiences and they cater to them. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s simply capitalism. And capitalism and reporting the news do not blend.

Right. They sell a product called the news, but it's not journalism. It's simply what the audience wants to hear or read.

And it seems now that on the rare occasion they do act like a journalist and ask a basic question like "do you have proof for your statements?", then the interviewee and part of the audience that doesn't like the answer has a conniption about it. So I can see why the media tends to tell stories rather than establish facts.

So maybe the question is are we being failed by media or are they simply catering to a dumb and lazy population that chooses to have their emotions catered to rather than being informed? Probably some of both.

 

[mstateglfr]

why in the hell would they make red bars left leaning and blue bars right leaning?

The screenshots broke my brain.
The headlines that conservatives may not know about seemed like ones they would know about.
And the headlines that liberals may not know about seemed like ones that would know about.

 

[dickiedawg]

why in the hell would they make red bars left leaning and blue bars right leaning?

Because if it’s reported more by right-leaning outlets, it’s a “blind spot” for the left.

 

[Darryl Steight]

When all the stuff was happening with fraud in Minnesota I was having a hard time determining exactly what role the governor played. Was he complicit? Was he just incompetent? Was he really just there but since it happened on his watch he was going to have to answer for it to some degree? So I tried to figure it out. I couldn’t. Every article I found had a bias either to the left or to the right. I finally gave up. Now I know some of you are going to tell me that I just have to know how to do it, etc, etc. that’s the problem. I don’t have the time to do that. We are not informed as a society. And the majority of those of us that think we are informed are really living in echo chambers.

it’s okay to support Trump and still question what the hell he is doing with Iran or the economy

it’s okay to support the Democratic Party and still call them out for the lunacy of going all in on something as ungodly unpopular as trans atheletes

it is the job of the media to do that, but they don’t anymore. Not both ways anyhow. They have their audiences and they cater to them. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s simply capitalism. And capitalism and reporting the news do not blend.

I applaud and appreciate this calm, bipartisan, and very common sense take...

Also, who are you and what have you done with our liberal commie pinko friend, HailStout?**

 

[LOTRGOTDAWGFAN]

It’s because they do

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just remember, faux news admitted in court that it was not real news.

 

[grinningmule]

it goes both ways as well.

Once again, it’s okay to support Trump, but this kind of discourse with the press helps no one.

also. Sorry, mods.

it goes both ways as well.

Once again, it’s okay to support Trump, but this kind of discourse with the press helps no one.

also. Sorry, mods.

I'm sure the difference has nothing at all to do with the press tonguing Obama's taint 24/7 vs 24/7 of "hate Trump".

 

[POTUS]

I think we will look back at the Obama presidency as the time that the legacy media gave up the ghost. They treated him with kid gloves for obvious reasons. Shocking to see that in response the country elected someone the media hate. They predictably gave the new guy no quarter and no benefit of the doubt and thus, no one trusts media anymore. It's so bad that there's literally no link you could provide where I wouldn't be skeptical of the source.

 

[Darryl Steight]

just remember, faux news admitted in court that it was not real news.

This post approved by Nick Sandmann**

 

[HailStout]

I'm sure the difference has nothing at all to do with the press tonguing Obama's taint 24/7 vs 24/7 of "hate Trump".

I’m not arguing that the press is great. It isn’t. What I am saying is he is the President of the United States and should be the grown up in the room. If my kids are out of line and I start acting like them I am making the situation worse.

and if he wants to sell his plan to get those who don’t support him no matter what he needs to do better than this.

once again, okay to call him out when he isn’t perfect.

 

[mstateglfr]

When all the stuff was happening with fraud in Minnesota I was having a hard time determining exactly what role the governor played. Was he complicit? Was he just incompetent? Was he really just there but since it happened on his watch he was going to have to answer for it to some degree? So I tried to figure it out. I couldn’t. Every article I found had a bias either to the left or to the right. I finally gave up. Now I know some of you are going to tell me that I just have to know how to do it, etc, etc. that’s the problem. I don’t have the time to do that. We are not informed as a society. And the majority of those of us that think we are informed are really living in echo chambers.

I did this exact same thing 6 months ago and got nowhere. I simply couldnt separate accusation vs reality, truth vs lie, what was already known for multiple years from what was new, etc etc. It sucked that I failed, since I genuinely tried.

it’s okay to support Trump and still question what the hell he is doing with Iran or the economy

it’s okay to support the Democratic Party and still call them out for the lunacy of going all in on something as ungodly unpopular as trans atheletes

it is the job of the media to do that, but they don’t anymore. Not both ways anyhow. They have their audiences and they cater to them. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s simply capitalism. And capitalism and reporting the news do not blend.

 

[ckDOG]

I'm sure the difference has nothing at all to do with the press tonguing Obama's taint 24/7 vs 24/7 of "hate Trump".

I guess you hear what you want to hear. I'm old enough to remember the tan suit uproar of 2014. I wish the press still had those expectations for the norms of the presidency.

 

[HRMSU]

I noticed that trend happening too often, so, probably a year or more ago I "Ignored" golfer in the settings section of this fine online news source and life was better. About two weeks ago I had enough of pains rants and taking over a whole thread too so I added paindonthurt to that list and now life is all "champaign wishes and caviar dreams". They are the only two so far to reach that milestone.

So you created your own algorithm ****