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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Hawkmoon on January 11, 2019, 09:33:35 AM

Title: I can't HEAR you!
Post by: Hawkmoon on January 11, 2019, 09:33:35 AM: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/424876-san-diego-tv-station-cnn-declined-our-local-view-because-of-reports-on-wall

CNN asked a San Diego station for a report on the border wall -- then didn't want to know anything when the report suggested that the wall is effective. So much for unbiased reporting.

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"Thursday morning, CNN called the KUSI Newsroom asking if one of our reporters could give them a local view of the debate surrounding the border wall and government shutdown," a report by KUSI, an independent station in San Diego that began airing in 1982, begins.

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"We believe CNN declined a report from KUSI because we informed them that most Border Patrol Agents we have spoken to told us the barrier does in fact work," it concludes. "We have continuously been told by Border Patrol Agents that the barrier along the Southern border helps prevent illegal entries, drugs, and weapons from entering the United States, and the numbers prove it."
Title: Re: I can't HEAR you!
Post by: Perd Hapley on January 11, 2019, 02:40:04 PM: Of course. Selective reporting is at least as much a factor in media bias as misleading or opinionated reporting.
Title: Re: I can't HEAR you!
Post by: makattak on January 11, 2019, 02:44:43 PM: Quote from: fistful on January 11, 2019, 02:40:04 PM
Of course. Selective reporting is at least as much a factor in media bias as misleading or opinionated reporting.

I would argue it is the largest factor.

Yes, they are biased in HOW they report items, but the bias appears far more in what they choose to report. (And how prominent they make the report.)

(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.breitbart.com%2Fmedia%2Fcdn%2Fmediaserver%2FBreitbart%2FBig-Journalism%2F2013%2F04%2F12%2FGosnellmediaseating.jpg&hash=52cd5c0d806213465eca1e011165c9aed819117f)
Title: Re: I can't HEAR you!
Post by: Fly320s on January 11, 2019, 04:10:25 PM: What is the story with that photo?
Title: Re: I can't HEAR you!
Post by: makattak on January 11, 2019, 04:23:34 PM: Quote from: Fly320s on January 11, 2019, 04:10:25 PM
What is the story with that photo?

If you remove the image tags, it becomes:

http://media.breitbart.com/media/cdn/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Journalism/2013/04/12/Gosnellmediaseating.jpg
Title: Re: I can't HEAR you!
Post by: Scout26 on January 11, 2019, 05:54:51 PM: Quote from: Fly320s on January 11, 2019, 04:10:25 PM
What is the story with that photo?

That was the section of the courtroom reserved for the media during the Kermit Gosnell trial....

What ?!!?! You never heard of it ?!?!? It was all over the.....ummmmmmm......alternative right wing media...
Title: Re: I can't HEAR you!
Post by: MechAg94 on January 11, 2019, 06:36:50 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SROvkohQZLA&t=196s
Title: Re: I can't HEAR you!
Post by: Perd Hapley on January 11, 2019, 11:31:44 PM: The photo proved mak's point, and the questions about the photo proved it all over again.