I am amazed and appalled by the euphemisms I've heard used in the so-called 'liberal media' for Trump's sexual dalliances. One reporter said Trump slept with Stormy Daniels. Others have said he had an affair with her. No, paying a woman for sex is not "sleeping with her" or "having an affair with her." Doni JOHN Trump solicited a prostitute for sex.

Not once have I heard the term "adultery" used in the media. The same channels that show Trump claiming to be a Christian never point out that he is a married man who committed adultery. If you think that's between Doni and Mel you missing the point: Donald Trump has contempt for oaths he's taken.

I lean left and writing bachelor's thesis on media bias surrounding Gulf war. I should have started at least a month earlier, but I'm giant procrastinator.

In any case, the work is about comparing biases from NYT and WP towards the war. It's bit late to ask, but I don't know how exactly they compare given that they're both liberal newspapers. There might be some obscure and subtle differences, but I don't know of any. I do know that The New York Times in spite of its high reputation, has a long history of controversial opinion pieces and reporting misinformation. Oftentimes regarding war and foreign policy and many leftists call the paper pro-war. Don't know about Washington Post having the same issues.

To those who’ve read both, (I haven’t read Understanding Media yet) what are the main differences or discrepancies, if any, between the two texts? Thanks!

This term used to mean shooting someone with the gun barrel no more than an inch or two away from the body of the victim. Now and without surprise reporters have destroyed that meaning. Now it means when the gun is any distance from the target, even within eyesight. It just adds glamor or sensationalism to the story. But that's okay, we all like thrills. The more words the better, but it leaves the reader with something less than the facts.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-inflation-housing-trump-home-price-rent-248ef02e197c3a7ffb801e370c529d33

https://newrepublic.com/article/179546/american-institutions-not-ready-second-trump-presidency

NBC news posted this:

"In the moments after the shooting, Zachry admitted that she took the live rounds out of the gun and “threw them away in a state of shock and panic. It was a reactive decision.” She said she told investigators about this one month after the shooting. "

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Ms. Zachry testified that she believed that she was throwing away dummy rounds and that whether they might have or could have been live rounds is undetermined.

In an otherwise very informative article, I couldn’t help but notice no less than 11 European country parties were described as “far-right”. 0 were identified as “far-left”.

https://www.politico.eu/article/bears-cars-angry-farmers-fuel-green-deal-backlash-eu-agenda-european-commission-ursula-von-der-leyen/

I haven’t been able to watch television news or read newspapers in years. Long gone are the days of objectivity or honesty. Everything is a centralized narrative, driving the story arcs to manipulate and divide the public. It’s absolutely disgusting that our country has come to this.

The approval ratings for the president and Congress should be a signal that the people are tired of the bullshit. $34 trillion in debt created by two parties who are playing different versions of the same game.

Nazis would be proud of what’s been built in this country. In fact, I think they’d be proud of what the media calls ‘ a Nazi’. International or global socialist who hates Jews and wants to destroy them. Which American political party does that describe?

Anytime there is a shooting nearly all the mainstream media pull out their narrative and immediately implicate white people and cover it nonstop. However, if the shooter happens to fall into a ‘ narrative protected category’, their identity is hidden for as long as possible, and the coverage only talks about guns. Last year it was a transgender person who did the shooting. In another example, they tried to say that a Hispanic male was a white supremacist.

if the shooter is Muslim or the targets are Jewish, you don’t hear a word about those facts.

A recent example is the shooting at the Super Bowl parade. As soon as they did not announce that it was a white person you knew immediately it was a ‘ narrative protected’ person.

Narratives can do good things to advance the needle on advancing idealism, but they do so at the cost of objectivity and truth. Youd think that declining viewership and readership would force the media to wake up and understand people are tired of it. But apparently that isn’t part of their approved set of propaganda/woke narratives.

Statement:

The Media continues to give Trump media exposure on every matter of this nations concerns, this is a disgrace to the system of America's Presidential Term. Never, has there been a time when a former President has had so much coverage on every matter of State and Nation. This is an insult to the system of America's Presidential Administrative Term. The Media does this for the promotion of controversy, all it does is feed contention into society which the media focuses itself upon to generate Advertising Revenue.

I try to avoid as much Network TV Media and Cable News, because they are malicious and engage in an insanity that is abusive of the point, principle and purpose of the press.

Trump has been proven to be criminal on many different categories, including sexual abuser, by acts and by his own words, of "grab em by the P....y". Then he talks of not protecting NATO countries and stating that he'd urge Putin to attack any he feels is not paying enough. The Media is 100% Irresponsible to continue to parade this madness for the sake of rating and advertising sales.

American's may do better to boycott the products that pay to support the promotion of this madness, and turn the channel, and sit down and "read print media that has integrity to respect America cease with this circus game of giving Trump free press.

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A former US Army general says Trump wants the US to abandon NATO because he's a 'mafia type' that 'hates alliances'

• Donald Trump wants the US to abandon NATO because he "hates alliances," a former Army general says.
• Ben Hodges said Trump was a "mafia type" who "doesn't want anybody restricting his options."
• "He couldn't care less about moral obligations," Hodges said.

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Statement:

More Proof Republican don't want to legislate and fix the borders, and their constituency don't want to support fixing the Border, they want to keep using it as a campaign promotion to keep their base riled up and keep them agitated.

(Be on notice, the Republican/Trumpist will try to bury this post with their downvotes, but don't be disillusioned by their aims to try and make it go away. *Share the post or the new story link with others and ask them to share it within their friends and associates... ) When Media is overtly used to blackmail politicians, it abuses the privilege of media and uses it to commit a crime.

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Conservative Personality Takes Credit For Threatening To ‘Destroy’ Republican Senator

Conservative radio host Jesse Kelly stepped forward to boast that he is who Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said had threatened to “destroy” him over his push for the now-nixed bipartisan bill on immigration.

In a Senate floor speech on Wednesday, Lankford said an unnamed “popular commentator” had “told me flat out, ‘If you try to move a bill that solves the border crisis during this presidential year, I will do whatever I can to destroy you because I do not want you to solve this before the presidential election.’”

The lawmaker added, “By the way, they have been faithful to their promise and have done everything they can to destroy me in the past several weeks.” The bill came under relentless fire from former President Donald Trump and his allies, who see immigration as key to his reelection in November.

Kelly later Wednesday claimed credit for threatening Lankford on X, formerly Twitter.

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How long will people keep allowing themselves to be played for fools by Republican games and madness? It's like there is a segment in America who have been made into "cultist of madness", who can be lead and directed to make fools and imbeciles of themselves, to not face truth when truth is all around them.

Republican politicians and their lust for power, keeps them from going to the police and filing charges of blackmail and manipulative extortion to control acts and conducts.

These people have allowed Trump to be like their modern day Hitler, who has them under a spell of madness and malice.

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Statement:

This is how the media promotes the dis-illusioned and the mis-direction of people and allow them to become manipulated into a cult following. The media knows these tactics and how they are being used upon the people, but they play to it, for drama promotion to sell commercials and people build their careers in the media by promoting madness for the sake of drama impact.

People are gullible on average, people fall prey to these manipulations:

Every journalist should have a copy of Greene’s book

Consider some of its laws:

Law 7*: Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit.*

Law 11*: Learn to keep people dependent on you.*
Law 15*: Crush your enemy totally.*
Law 17*: Keep others in suspended terror, cultivate an air of unpredictability.*
Law 27*: Play on people’s need to believe to create a cult like following.*
Law 32*: Play to people’s fantasies.*
Law 33*: Discover each man’s thumbscrew.*
Law 34*: Be royal in your own fashion. Act like a king to be treated like one.*
Law 43*: Work on the hearts and minds of others.*

The media does a great dis-service to the public!!!

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How the news media unintentionally contributes to Donald Trump’s endurance

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How could a twice-impeached former president and federally indicted candidate say the most incredulous things, remain empowered and possibly win the 2024 election?

It just may be because the news media unintentionally contributes to Donald Trump’s endurance, not by covering legitimate breaking news, but by repeating tired themes, rebutting false equivalencies, and speculating about his intentions.

How could voters support a person who has said these wacky citations?

• “Our (Revolutionary) army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory.”
• “And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it (COVID-19) out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”
• “This is a tough hurricane. One of the wettest we have seen, from the standpoint of water.”
• “Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. … I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius … and a very stable genius at that!”

Yet, Trump leads the Republican Party as its presumed nominee. Go figure. That’s what this commentary intends to do, probing his power base and innate ability to dominate the headlines.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/01/journalism-layoffs-00138517

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These are the \"news alert\" emails I got from The Washington Post this morning. Whether the growth is 2.5 %, or 3.1% - the economy is \"bustling.\"

(Yeah, this is a cheap shot, so sue me.) At 8:39 AM, I got a "breaking news" alert via email from The Washington Post with the headline "News Alert: The economy grew by a bustling 2.5 percent in 2023..." Then 3 minutes later, I get an identical email, with no mention of the mistake, but with the growth reported as 3.1 percent instead of 2.5. Seems like the facts themselves aren't as important as the message: the economy is "bustling!"

I wonder what the threshhold levels are for "bustling," and how high the number would have to be before the WaPo would consider the economy to be "booming."

Is this just an honest mistake and not actually evidence of some sinister plot by WaPo to paint the economy as doing well regardless of the data? Perhaps. But if my media criticism is only that they were sloppy this morning, so be it. But one can't help but think they want to paint the economy as rosy - and were going to say "bustling" no matter what the data said.

Here’s an example of how scale can be used to misrepresent data. If the chart was say 0 degrees to 100 degrees, the one degree temperate change wouldn’t look like much.

You might see similar charts with other data, like crime rates for example.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2024/01/21/true-detective-dark-discovery-scientists/72272268007

This article with gruesome pictures of simulated dead naked frozen bodies in ice DOES NOT belong on the USA Today website, which is available online to any child with an Internet connection.

This content is also on the Android app, which is rated 10 years old and up. This is a SERIOUS oversight. I emailed USA Today's editors but obviously they chose to ignore me.

The images posted in the article show multiple simulated dead naked bodies with horrific tortured faces, blackened fingers, toes and facial features and blood dripping out of their ears. Again, this is in a NEWS app, rated for children 10 years old and up. I am an adult and was disturbed viewing these images.

Submission statement? News websites should not publish "gore porn" just to get clicks when children could be exposed to it.