Three, and this is the biggest, I take it you are not aware of Jimmy Dore? It’s true he used to be left wing… years ago. He has been for some time now a pro Putin/RFK/Trump anti-vax conspiracy nut, and about as far from left wing as it gets. I question the entire validity of that chart if they get that so blatantly wrong. That’s not even a rookie mistake that’s a baby mistake.
I hope that this switch of politics happened long before 2018, or we would have another pretty telling baby mistake to speak about here.
I never said this, of course, but sure, whatever. I actually engage near-daily with most of the outlets listed on your chart, and I learned the skills required for media literacy in school, so I don't need a chart because I know what I'm talking about.
Oh sorry, you said "everything but MSNBC is far-right or right", my mistake, that definitely changes the whole meaning. And you'll forgive me if I put more weight into charts that seems to have had quite a bit of work put into them by professionals, than into your personal self-claimed knowledge and competency, especially after years of seeing just how easily everything becomes "fascist" to you.
You're citing opinion vs. opinion. You can disagree with it as much as you want, but I'll note you ignored my evidence that runs contrary to your claim about Hollywood "leaning Democrat".
You didn't post wide-ranging evidence, you posted an anecdote. And you're comparing the opinons of a few very politicized, very one-side-leaning posters, to the opinion of at least two published work by teams of professionnals, who didn't seem to get the mocking criticism from other professionnals, which is a rather ridiculous thing to do.
The US media that projects internationally, and has for decades, is mostly more leftish than rightish. WSJ is an exception. There may be a few others. The GOP commands all the local markets though Fox and conservative syndicates like Sinclair which owns over a hundred local papers and TV stations. MAGA folks are not likely to read the WaPo or NYT or other big name global media. For 30 years the GOP has been working hard to get the attention of unsophisticated people with very aggressive "own the libs" messages. They have succeeded. The Dems lost in 2024 because they refuse to fight fire with fire. TBH, they are too nice.
Well, that's close to what I was saying in the quote you answer to - Dem have the big media (and might see it starting to erode by now), the Rep made themselve their niche in the local/small media, and "little people" are probably closer to said small media. Still, again, not at all the picture paint of the Dem being swamped by this supposedly massive juggernaut of Rep media. Just a failure of reaching and getting in with the audience, despite having a much bigger umbrella.
Also, while I certainly agree that Rep have more vicious, more simplistic messaging (that resonates more easily with people in general, i.e. "they meme better" like Hygro said), I'm not sure that it's the viciousness itself that does the job. Again, I think Hygro has the gist of it (well, if I got what he meant, as it's not been the easier argument to parse), the unarticulated general chaotic feelings of lots of people, that they might not even understand fully themselves, but which on the whole resonates more with whatever axis the Rep are loudly claiming to be their own, than the Dem.
) don't like anti-capitalism, and therefore probably won't sign off on anti-capitalist coverage. But feel free to keep calling basic logic conspiracy theories.
