Comment Re:Intellectualism is scary (Score 2) 227
What the right-wing news media has done is over-focus on the outlier opinions.
What ALL news media does is over focus on the outlier opinions. Russia Gate? Four goddamn years of that nonsense and it was utter fabricated lies. I can't stand the orange buffoon but to think the left-wing news media wasn't just as guilty of this bullshit when they saw political points to be scored... well its bullshit.
Glenn Greenwald has a greatly detailed writeup on how utterly awful the media has become - both left and right - particularly in regards to the past five years of insane over-the-top fact-free partisan reporting. Love him or loathe him - I personally think Greenwald is an insightful and thoughtful reporter and what he says is 100% worth listening to - you can't deny that news media in general is utter garbage at this point. When I read an article my 1st thought is not if they're lying but HOW are they lying. I just assume at this stage they are lying to me either through omission or in some cases just outright fabrication.
It's not a left vs right partisan issue. Take your cheer-leading "my team is awesome your team is evil" nonsense out of here.