Great idea! I agree it's a good holistic-health measure.
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But I don't think those are it. When Jimmy Carter says the media is applying a different standard to Trump, it lends credibility to the idea that they just might be.
I'd say left-leaning sources are those that tend to report negatively on conservative politicians and positively on liberals. The Harvard study purports to measure what constitutes negative coverage, so this seems like it could be measured.
About numbers, it seems today often Fox reports favorably for the GOP, while CNN, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, and the BBC seem to favor the political left. (I think the Harvard study seems to suggest this.)
I suppose a microcosm of the 'balanced list' I'm describing might be 'Real Clear Politics'. This site posts leftist articles, then immediately follows them with right-leaning articles in equal numbers one after the other. It's an interesting way to get news, and it allows the reader to study different biases, often on the same topic.
Jimmy Carter has been in that seat, and he says the media has been harder on Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017...
Even former President Jimmy Carter has said so.
So no, there is no unbiased, high quality mainstream media. There is only biased reporting from the right (Fox) and the left (just about everybody else).
Another conservative network would be good. If we can't have fair news, at least we can get biased news in equal and opposing doses.
"Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find."
With that one quote, he smeared one of the victims of Bill Clinton's predatory sexual attacks AND insulted low-income Americans.
As numerous financial books will testify, if you are frugal (no matter the income) and invest wisely, it is possible to accumulate some measure of fortune. If you teach your children to do the same (as they grow up in a frugal household), they will become the next tier of the pyramid.
I really, truly believe this. I was raised in a large family and inherited nothing of worth. I'm not done working yet, but I'm encouraged by the way things are progressing and have hopes all of my kids will go to college and emerge without a mountain of debt.
In America, the dream can be obtained. It will take time, though.
Social media democratizes this. But if I post crazy things all the time, I'll lose balanced followers and will probably pick up biased followers.
The national media has little other governance. CNN ran amok for years-- it's time some balance was imposed.
He's basically the poster-boy for inherited privilege and wealth (and a card carrying Weinstein-enabler), but he's credited with 'charm'.
If it's true, we should all be very concerned.
It's not a good situation. There's blatant hypocrisy in the air as well. (Many of the same voices calling out politicians for past sexual misdeeds have yet to sever ties with the Clintons, for example.)
It's to our collective detriment. I can't wait for the pendulum to swing back the other way so we can all speak what we think without fear of falling on the wrong side of the PC police.
We can all admire the way Pai is mocking the massive media machine that's been picking on him for months. I'm glad to see it, I'm sick of the monopolistic media machine.
In some ways, I agree today's kids have it tougher. In other ways, there are opportunities that did not exist in the past.
I have hopes for today's recent grads in that things remind me somewhat of the mid 80s. (That's when I graduated college.) The economy was ready to boom for a good long time. Some jobs were going away, some were opening up. I was lucky enough to get a job in programming, the economy carried me forward to this day. I wish the same good luck to future generations.
We need to make MOOCs the default choice for a college education. Traditional university is a minefield of money sucking scams, from book costs to extra fees to constant tuition inflation.
The reason for all the school debt is not the loan environment. It's the cost of schools.
There's a lot to be happy about, no matter what your politics may be. There's always something good to find.
Smart man, Henry.
Bias is obvious, it's not going to be informative reading.
12/4: Reuters: "Mueller subpeona Trumps banking" 12/5: Reuters: "RETRACTED"
12/8: CNN: Wikileaks sent .@DonaldJTrumpJr secret email 12/8: RETRACTED