I Hate The Mainstream Media

Do you believe the media should call the President out on his lies?

I agree.
Left wing media IMO is indeed an enemy of the people.
They lie, mislead, exaggerate, leave out, misreport regularly.
Their mission is clear, to destroy Trump at all costs.
I suppose because he is doing a great job Making America Great Again.
Trump has single handedly reversed much of the damage done by Obama and the left.
Politicians in general don't like Trump.
Politicians are in business to keep themselves in office - not to resolve problems. The MSM aids and abets the left in their poor reporting.

The bias was there in the past, but at least you could wade through it to find whatever fact the bias was based on. Now, it's all anonymous sources and cherry-picked data presented in the most doomsday, hysterical way possible to feed outrage and drive clicks and viewers while denying anything that doesn't fit the desired narrative.

We're watching the death of legit journalism, at least in the corporate form.

I think it's important to recognize the difference between bias and untruth. Bias is not synonymous with untruth, it's the injection of opinion into reporting. To say "That stupid Trump went to China" and "Trump went to China" are getting the same truth across, that Trump went to China, one is just injecting opinion into it. Of course they're often more surreptitious than that and maybe no opinion is easily detectable: "A man was arrested" and "a black man was arrested" could both be biased depending on the source (one deliberately including the race, one deliberately hiding it!)

If you can detect the bias, you can glean the truth (as if it were being put through a sieve). Of course we shouldn't [i]have[/i] to do that, but that's the reality. If I want opinion, I'll read an editorial.

The way the media reports is a product of a vicious cycle. People want their own opinions reinforced, so the media gives them what they want. We want to be told "your side is right, the other side is pure evil". But they want it because it's all they've ever known, from the media, et al. We tend not to see bias when we agree with it. But I'm at the point where even if I agree with the bias, I don't want to see it. It's like you said, insulting to my intelligence. I don't want things omitted and twisted to fit my preconception of the world.

Well I mean I would say that from what I’ve seen in my life, the mainstream media tends to be more biased leaning left but I think it’s important to remember that media has always been biased. I mean since media has existed in ancient Rome, the media has always tried to convince the general population of the ideas they want to convey. That’s just how media works.

The moment a commentator says you should stand behind a position just to back the Flag, the Nation or The Office, you should smell the B.S. Every nation should be run for its people. If it isnt. you get new people to run it. But you look at what they do, dont believe a word they say until its backed with action.

I think they are purposely doing it to divide the people. When the people are divided it makes the Govt stronger. They know a United population has very little use for big gov.

I don't entirely trust the mainstream media, but I distrust the fringe media more, and REALLY distrust people who tell people to tell people to believe them and not to trust the media.

I remember my dad only watching Fox News during Obama’s tenure. Now he hardly ever watches Fox.

I’m not sure what you mean by “recent years” but it’s always been biased in my short memory.

And yet the country is pretty evenly split down the middle politically, it doesn't make sense that a country so evenly split has a media so far to one side.

There is no such thing as journalism anymore. It’s only opinion pieces. And the vast majority of them at the mainstream level are left wing.

Woof!

I wouldn't call it a 'left' bias. But I also wouldn't particularly call the Democrats left.

It's like mainstream is way left and Fox is way right and where's the damned truth? It's a challenge.

You mean the media is biased? Wow. This is my shocked face 😐