personalized media bubble

So I'm staying at a hotel with the family tonight, and it has cable, which we aren't used to. We haven't had cable tv since before they were even born.

Put a movie on last night. Think it was Toy Story (1) on Freeform. Was definitely freeform.

Anyways the kids fell asleep and after it was done, the "news" came on.

At least I thought it was the news.

And holy shit was their nose so far up Trump's ass. I'm listening in the background while reading a book and I'm like "lie....lie...half truth...". Then the sugary sweet pro-Israel rhetoric started.

Literally every third word was something I had already read something with a completely different, and frankly far more realistic, perspective.

I had no idea The 700 Club was still on, but the media bubble is absolutely real. And it's thrown in front of you when you least expect it.

Ya know, I pay for a news app that many youtubers promote (and I won't name for sake of not sounding like a shill, but I'm sure many have heard of it). It shows what the media bias is on any given story. As in, how many right-leaning, left-leaning, and centrist news agencies had picked it up.

And it's incredibly telling, on any given day, seeing what one side picks up versus the other.

Here's some of today's list...

Like...honestly, most of the story isn't even the content at this point, it's who is reporting in it.

2 days might be easier. 3 days would require a day off that they don't have /s

I know you’re probably referring to Occupy. In the aftermath of the 2019 protests in my country I’ve paid a little more attention to the regret in the voices of people who were a part of Occupy. How they thought at the time, how the politics of different participants evolved. I see a lot of parallels there and I don’t think I’m equipped to really get any insight out of that for the future.

I don’t think it’s a uniquely American thing. Sometimes middle income people who are somewhat insulated from the worst of the system will have a reason to hit the streets. As a controlled fizzle-out of revolution sure it’s something that can never work. But it does break political taboos and exposes dynamics normally buried beneath the weight of “day-to-day” politics. Beirut 2019-2020 was a massive failure, a joke of a protest movement. Some people believably claim it’s the only time 1/5th of the population of a country protested with zero material political change. But I felt like I learned a lot about the social fabric of the country, about the state’s relationship with society, about how old civil war grudges still echo when I thought they wouldn’t.

Or maybe you’re talking about the 2020 protests in the US. Dancing cops etc. I got nothing for you there chief