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For those unfamiliar, The Truman Show starred Jim Carey as a man who did not know he was the star of a sitcom. Everyone was nice to him, he was always greeted enthusiastically, his lawn was always mowed, supper was always ready....on and on.
With the help of the modern media, that's the world liberals candidates for office live in! They are never held accountable, everything they do is alright, and they keep getting elected over and over.
Truman got wise and figured it out.
Democrats sometimes figure it out, but usually not. Tell one of them they are living in a protective bubble and they will fight back.
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......I lived in a kind of information bubble, but like most bubble-dwellers I didn’t know I was living in one. Ironically, the 2016 election opened my eyes to this “Truman Show”-like media universe we’ve all been inhabiting.
Mainstream statist liberals are proof that even if you mean well basing your entire existence on forced collectivism is a recipe for rebellion by anyone with half a brain.
Though why we keep need reminded of this is beyond me. Plenty of examples in history.
I never realized media bias until I moved out of NY, Long Island to be exact, in 1995. I did live in a bubble with Newsday (my family subscribed), the New York Daily News (my dad brought it home from work) and New York Times (to a lesser degree) plus all of the NYC TV news stations. New Yorkers think they are hot stuff because the national news media located in NYC tells them every day how special they are. It's just not obvious to you if you live there.
Because of links to stories we are now exposed to more media but only if we take the time to seek out different versions of the same story. It troubles me a lot that journalists frequently don't bother to get more than one side to the same story. I'll give you an innocuous example. Mrs. Obama's food lunch ideas were passed down to schools through the Department of Agriculture (I THINK) and kids were throwing away their school lunches. In one article I read, the reporter talked to the cafeteria workers, the teachers and the school administrators who all were behind Mrs. Obama's mission but the reporter never talked to the most obvious group she should have spoken to -- the kids who were throwing away their lunches or maybe she did and just didn't bother to use it or an editor made her remove it. Was the reporter too stupid to know that she should have talked to the students, too, or did she have an agenda and do it deliberately not wanting any negative quotes to reflect on the Obama administration? Who knows?
In another story about an event involving Christian churches in the Middle East, the reporter spoke to the Muslims giving them trouble and quoted from the official press release from the government of that country but never bothered to talk to anyone (pastors or parishioners) from the Christian church. So, again, you get a half-assed story. Was the reporter too stupid to know that she should have talked to them, too, or did she have an agenda and do it deliberately? Or was it just easier for her to use the official press release and reach the Muslim leaders? Who knows?
I also think the pressure to get the story first because of the speed of finding out things on the Internet makes a lot of journalists make sloppy mistakes.
The right would and has done the same thing if they get too much power. It's human nature. It's also known as the "good ole boys club." People give a free pass to people they associate with because they share commonalities, whether it be political, family, friends, religion, or whatever.
The right would and has done the same thing if they get too much power. It's human nature. It's also known as the "good ole boys club." People give a free pass to people they associate with because they share commonalities, whether it be political, family, friends, religion, or whatever.
Not in recent times. As far back as the living generation can remember, the press has been complicit with liberal leaders and has insulated itself and those leaders in the liberal bubble.
As far as those in the bubble are concerned, the US has been "wrong" on nearly every issue. The "wrongness" of America's every action has been promoted by the media, the educational system, and - unfortunately - foreign powers.
CNN and other liberal outlets selectively omit items that do not fit with their narrative. When forced to include distasteful items they downplay their significance and find a way to forecast failure for the conservative side. The hapless individuals inside the bubble never know they are all part of an act.
Benghazi is a good example. When the narrative of "we have defeated terrorism" fell apart, the Obama administration tried to blame Benghazi on a movie. The press helped. And it was all done in order to promote Obama as President for a second term.
Left, right, or indifferent. Bias exists in every thing political, not to mention the tons of bias in the non political space. I can't believe that so many were duped by the mainstream media for so long, but then again party loyalists have never been known for their intellectual prowess. Rising above the bickering crowds and their partisan moronic chatter allows one to see the real problem, and it ain't liberalism, or conservatism, but moreover, partisan-ism..
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