Leftist bias of mainstream media and academics

The media today imo supports unions. The media has questioned price gouging recently with inflation

 

I hope you get a chance you listen to the podcast I just linked when you have invested time over this. It's a tall order as it's multiple hours.

But this aspect is precisely addressed. In 1920s Weimar Germany the mainstream liberal media socially expressed support for organized labor until organized labor actually organized and did things like organized sit ins, strikes etc where the fascists came in and violently attacked many of these organized strikes and protests and the same media blamed the strikers for "provoking" the fascists. A lot of "your striking is delaying traffic and suppressing our economic interests and that is upsetting fascists enough to attack you, why are you making fascists angry?" energy


Basically the support was superficial due to how they immediately trashed these organized labor movements as soon as these movements actually did actions like worker strikes.

 

I have a bigger issue with Boomers collecting government entitlements and not contributing to society, being right leaning and trying to dictate the future of the country.

 

Journalism is a liberally natured business. The same way education is. It's hard-wired to cater to liberal sensibilities and priorities.

It leans left the same way the police and finance lean conservative. Those lines of work speak more to conservative people and their values and interests.

That being said, journalism is still capitalist. So don't think for a second that any news org wouldn't kick Kamala Harris into the woodchipper if it meant their bottom line would go up.

 

Boomers already contributed

 

Basically the people who own the media entities are not the same people who go through classical journalism training and academia.

 

Does anyone have an issue with the causes media have positively reported on in the last forty years?

The media has overwhelmingly supported Black victims of police fatal shootings for example. Yes we live in a capitalist society and they have to make money but where specifically would you say profits clouded reporting?

 

In the recent story of Amber Nicole Thurman dying because of delay by doctors not wanting to be prosecuted for performing an abortion, no media outlet questioned the fact her miscarriage was caused by an abortion clinic

 

The media is a rather broad term.


If you are referring to entities like CNN, their views on law enforcement are exactly what I mean as neo-liberal and not "leftist".

CNN executives don't want to "defund the police". Leftists believe that law enforcement culture is rotten to its core. They believe law enforcement attracts the worst type of people in our society that have the worst combination of large egos and large insecurities. Corporate media will call out individual incidents and at the same time still wax lyrical about how law enforcement is a "hero profession" that has dignity and honor behind it.

 

I personally think as soon as you stop working and just collect a check skews people’s brains from reality.

 

Does this story buck economic and social hierarchies?

I'm glad corporate media defends abortion rights but that really doesn't signal "leftist". That's more of a moderate position.

 

I understand what you're saying and it gives more clarity to your point but the media extending police excessive force coverage to law enforcement culture is not their job.

That's a large topic for daily news

 

Facts are left leaning

 

(Fox News, anyone? But anyhow...)

The function of journalism is to gather, analyze, and present information to inform and engage the public. Americans are, by and large, quite ill-informed—more so today than in the past, which is incredible given the vast amount of information readily available.

That's the big failure. The decline of journalism isn't helping, as people now want to do their own research when, in reality, they are emotional bags with little expertise who can be quite easily manipulated by those looking to make a quick buck, or something worse.

 

short attention spans, just twitter posts and tiktok vids....

 

It is a little concerning that 4% would donate to Trump, but it's still a small percentage.

Journalists are allowed to donate to whichever candidate they see fit and still be professionals who can do their job regardless of which candidates they have donated to.

 

Professors and experts are allowed to be Democrats. They can do that still fulfill their jobs professionally and without interference of their political party membership.