you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Our media here has been captive for decades. And it's not just Fox News (though they're the most obvious as they don't really bother trying to cover it up).

They're all so terrified of losing access that they never hold anyone's feet to the fire, or even ask follow up questions after blatant lies.

It's frankly embarrassing.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, the most blatant example of this is national debates. On the topic of healthcare I've not seen a national debate that hasn't framed universal healthcare "questions" as some sort of extremely expensive unaffordable luxury that will make jesus cry because it's communist.

    IE "Mister Sanders, you support universal healthcare which our analysts say will cost 1 trillion dollars and will cause insurance companies to go bankrupt costing thousands of jobs. How will you solve these problems?" (not exact, but pretty close).

  • source
  • parent