Why “Both Siding” Media is BS
April 18, 2023
Very good quick explainer of why “left wing” and “right wing” do not explain the difference between, say, Breitbart and NPR.
Made-up, paranoid, disinformation bullshit is not the “other side” of anything. It’s just made-up, paranoid, disinformation bullshit.
We learned this early in the Climate debate. Why is this so hard to understand?
Climate Denial Crock of the Week 
April 18, 2023 at 12:56 pm
If we jump off a 10 story building, for 9 stories Breitbart can claim that gravity is a hoax. ‘Fair and balanced’ insists that maybe gravity is only sort of a hoax.
April 18, 2023 at 10:47 pm
Why is this so hard to understand?
Fox News Network
One America News Network
Breitbart News Network
Newspapers and network TV news, even when the publishers and editors and reporters are sincere, have never really been an accurate reflection of reality, but as a society most of us have grown up using daily “news” as information sources.
Young people are growing up without that basic “news” association. They know that information comes from your favorite social media influencers and opinion leaders.
April 19, 2023 at 8:15 am
I think of it as the “Republicans & Democrats Differ on what 2 + 2 equals” problem.