Media Bias

[Seabass]

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[BarnettNewman]

All governments and their associated legal systems compromise individual freedom to one degree or another. The extremes, like the current government of China are easy to recognise and deplore.

The other extreme being Somalia.

I know what you mean, but it is not a deliberate choice, like armchair libertarians would like to imagine, of little or no government. It is the fruit of violent chaos, with armed warlords struggling for power.

Do you think it would end differently?

[JimC]

It depends on the society and the context. I doubt that even an idealistic but not fanatical libertarian society would actually work, but it's also important to remember that Somalia is both crippled by earlier colonialism, and by Islamic fundamentalists...

[L'Emmerdeur]

Maria Bartiromo on Fox News just knows that the Democratic Party cheats in elections. She doesn't need no stinkin' evidence.

[The rise of the COVID-19 delta variant is] all quite convenient with a year to go before the midterm elections. It doesn't appear the Democrats can win on policy so what are we going to do? Have a lock-down in the summer of 2022 so that we ensure mail-in ballots are flowing from empty parking lots and dead people?

[L'Emmerdeur]

What a scurrilous hit piece on the fine upstanding journalist Tim Pool. And it's too long--what a waste of time! They're just envious of the large pots of money he's raking in, is all.

'How "Coward and Phony" Tim Pool Became One of the Biggest Political YouTubers on the Planet'

By mid-afternoon of Jan. 4, it had become increasingly clear that a slew of far-right actors were gearing up for violence at the Capitol. Tim Pool derided and dismissed the accurate reporting out of hand.

Of all the ideological enemies Pool, 35, rails against on YouTube for an audience of millions each day, few stack up to the mainstream press. In his mind, then, coverage of then-President Donald Trump’s instigations and the mounting threats was yet another example of the media’s “depravity,” he said.

“What do you think they‘re going to do?” asked Pool. “It’s so stupid.”

Two days later, a mob stormed the Capitol, whipped into a frenzy by nonsensical claims of a stolen election and determined to put a stop to the constitutional transfer of power. To date, nearly 600 alleged rioters—a mishmash of Trump backers, QAnon adherents, and members of militias and extremist groups—have been arrested.

Throughout autumn 2020, the wildly successful YouTube pundit had spent countless hours hyping the blinkered legal strategies and half-baked fantasies about voter fraud animating the online right. At the same time, in each video Pool tried to separate himself from the hardcore conspiracy theorists. After all, he was just commenting on the news.

What Pool kept secret from his younger, overwhelmingly male, decidedly right-leaning audience during this time is that he seemed to have a pretty good idea what might happen on Jan. 6.

“Dude, I’ve had messages from people saying that they’ve already got plans to rush to D.C. as soon as November 3rd goes chaotic,” Pool said in early September during a recorded conversation reviewed by The Daily Beast.

A few minutes later, Pool added: “The right-wing militias, the Oath Keepers, the Three Percenters, and just the Proud Boys and Trump supporters, they are going to rush full-speed to D.C. They are going to take the White House and do whatever they can and paramilitary.” (Pool made these comments to then-colleagues at the media company he started. The following month, Pool used his YouTube platform to say the Oath Keepers had been unjustly “smeared” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He habitually comes to the defense of the Proud Boys, as well.)

This glaring omission was not out of character for Pool. Far from it. A former digital media journalist who originally built up his name with on-the-ground reporting and livestreaming, including stints at Vice and Fusion, Pool now postures as a rational centrist or “disaffected liberal” who grew to loathe the excesses of the left. If you buy Pool’s branding, he stands in contrast to the bulk of his journalistic peers: “evil” “liars,” he says, who’ve supposedly capitulated to the agendas of Black Lives Matter, antifa, Democrats, Big Tech companies, feminists, and the like.

This self-generated mythology—an anti-authoritarian truth-teller whose successes stemmed from confronting “the machine,” as Pool puts it—bears little resemblance to reality.

Contrary to the overall manner in which Pool portrays himself, he was not an intrepid field reporter and streamer who barreled into conflict zones filled with an unshakable desire to ferret out the real story. Pool was at times reluctant to leave the safety of his hotel room, according to several of the nearly 30 former co-workers and other acquaintances from the past decade who spoke with The Daily Beast. He’d come across as uninterested in interviewing subjects or doing much research. During shoots, Pool’s head was frequently buried in his phone, diligently tracking social media, only to blame his co-workers or equipment when he couldn’t live up to his clippings. Pool’s main focus when reporting, those on the ground with him said, was drawing attention to himself.

[Seabass]

No..... wait.... you mean.... Cunt's favorite journalist is a fascist? This can't be! :gasp: :shock :surprise: :horror:

[Seabass]

This fuckin' guy hawks food buckets!

[Brian Peacock]

A bucket is the utensil of the farmyard not the dinner table.

[Seabass]

[Seabass]

[pErvinalia]

[Svartalf]

A bucket is the utensil of the farmyard not the dinner table.

Tell KFC that.

[Scot Dutchy]

A bucket is the utensil of the farmyard not the dinner table.

Tell KFC that.

Well you need a garbage bucket for their so called "food".

[Brian Peacock]

Oh I don't know. They do a vegan burger.



https://www.kfc.co.uk/menu/vegan