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Originally Posted by Myghost
Is there really a bias? If yes, I'd like to learn more about it, and it will help me to see it illustrated with some facts.
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This has been discussed
ad naseum and I have posted actual real world documented examples on other threads.
Liberals will often scream the budget for an office or agency has been "slashed" and the sky is falling, blah, blah, blah.
What actually happened was the budget of that office or agency didn't increase as much as some people -- typically Liberal think tanks and other Liberal pundits -- thought it should be increased.
Sorry, that is not a budget cut in spite of the lies the Liberal media spins.
Consider your wages. Typically you got a 4.5% to 5.0% wage increase, but this year you only got a 3.3% wage increase. Your wages were not "slashed" no matter how much the Liberal media spins it.
We can test that right here:
$25.00 + ($25.00 - 3.3%) = $25.83
See? Your wages weren't slashed.
Liberals only do that when Republicans are running the show. When Democrats are running the show, Liberals never mention that the Department of Education's budget only increased 6% instead of 10%, which again demonstrates the bias of the Liberal media.
Another real world example is Social Security cuts.
The Liberal media falsely accused Trump of cutting Social Security benefits.
What really happened is Congress enacted a law stating that if you receive Social Security Disability benefits, you cannot simultaneously receive unemployment benefits.
Do you not see the contradiction?
You are telling one part of the federal government that you are permanently disabled and you cannot work and therefore you should be showered with Social Security benefits.
Then, you're telling another part of the federal government and your State government that you are available to work, you are able to work and that you are seeking work and therefore you should receive unemployment benefits.
Do you not see the incongruity?
That's fraud, waste and abuse that needs to be ferreted out and Republicans did that by closing that loop-hole in the law.
When I was teaching at UC, another doctoral candidate was teaching a course on media bias under the Political Science Department (the English and Communications Departments had their own media bias courses).
She and I would coordinate our lectures. So, when I was teaching Intro to US Foreign Policy and covering the Castro period, where the US put Castro in power, then brought him to the US on an 11-city tour to Hail the Conquering Hero, and then the US turned on Castro when he tried to tax US companies in Cuba and then really turned on him when Castro seized their assets after they failed to comply with a court order to pay back taxes. She would show the media bias before/after those events. Students that were taking both our classes could see how media bias and foreign policy are intertwined (especially since the government is feeding foreign policy info to the media).
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At least that's what media was like back when I was a Bircher fellow traveler. That bunch had me convinced Lucille Ball was a communist.
