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There are few news stories I find worthy to open. "If it bleeds it leads". For the most part, if isn't someone I know bleeding, I'm skipping it. Also the share of so called news posing as editorials makes it unworthy to open the vast lot of them. Also, editorial or not, Its often about how unfair the left is treated and I'm not interested in that any more. Tech wizz bang stories aren't as interesting to me as it was in the past, mainly because I've heard of it all (almost). Not interested in scandals of the so called elite anymore because nothing ever comes from it, usually.

Other so called news stories like that about inflation, isn't news at all, we all know already. The stuff that is really news, and really important, and really imminent, isn't covered because it embarrasses the establishment. Should you point that out, you are censored.

Funny how a business can survive without customers.

But that is just me.

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> "If it bleeds it leads".

Post-2016, the updated version is "If it bleeds and doesn't make Democrats look bad, it leads".

See for example, the near-absolute muteness about the recent Hunter Biden iCloud leak[1]. This is the son of a sitting POTUS - who was just last week at the White House - demonstrably putting himself in positions that are ripe for blackmailing and corruption.

The same son sitting on Boards of private companies with huge international exposure, and directly benefiting from the terrible decisions being made at the White House.

It would be scandalous even in the most Banana of Republics - but not in the US when its about the Democrats.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_iCloud_leak

The alleged hack is reported by all major US news outlets

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/secret-service-sa...

It's just that a 4chan post isn't much to go on.

Kind of like when they all reported on his hacked laptop, but all they had was a hard drive Giuliani refused to share.

I wouldn't have voted for Biden if I knew the full picture. One part of that picture is a video of him saying he wishes to eliminate, totally, fossil fuel consumption in his term. Then the laptop issue, which was real, and was important, I never heard anything about it other than its fake news conspiracy theory. If anyone wants to double back on this post and reiterate some opinion that says that indeed it was all conspiracy theory nonsense, are you happy with an angry geriatric president that reads note cards when he's about to do something? There are a hell of a lot of people unhappy with Biden. Not all of them voted for Trump.

There were videos of Johny Carson pointing out Biden lying his ass off in the 1980s. Had I known that I would have a much better picture of the president we have now.

The media has failed us and they don't realize it. I am suspicious these big companies are not being funded through the ways people think, like advertising or subscription revenue. How does this trash stay in business? I say trash because Biden is a 29% approval rating disaster and he was elected 100% at the behest of the media. When the media loses objectivity to satisfy power behind the scenes, what can really be said about it? If anyone wants to call me dirty words because of this, go ahead. I won't reply.

Do you honestly think that the news should give more attention to the current president's son fucking up in an as-of-yet-to-be-determined-importance way versus an actual congressional hearing about our former president inciting an insurrection against the capitol?

What is considered a scandal now has been forever skewed by the insanity that was the previous presidency. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You're reinforcing his point. Major news media acts as if they can't report on Hunter Biden because there's only room for one story in the news cycle: Jan 6th.

All major news outlets reported on both so...that disproves the point?

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