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All media owned by large, profit-at-all-costs organizations is conservative media, regardless of their branding.

You're tautologically right, but not with the colloquial definition of "conservative" that gets used politically. So for your comment to mean anything, you have to make a larger point.

(I'd argue that the colloquial "branding" definitions are a part of the problem. eg "drain the swamp" isn't conservative rhetoric)

It seems ill-fitting to say the Washington Post, NYT, and Huffington Post are 'conservative', perhaps it'd be more accurate to say that they're entrenched in the status quo? You can see that pretty clearly when there newspapers write about companies that compete for attention. I don't think I've seen a favorable report about FAANGs out of the NYT since Tim Cook came out of the closet.

Huffington Post pretends to be very socially liberal, but really it's all about preserving the status quo which is ultimately a conservative position.

Also have you read any of those New York Times "editorial" pieces they crank out? "Trump isn't so bad" and "Why I voted Trump and I'd do it again, gosh darn it, and you should too" are typical fare.

The term "conservative" has shifted dramatically in the last 50 years. Some of today's "liberal" Democrats are further to the right of some Republicans in the 1960s. The most liberal of these large media institutions are at best hard-line centrists.

> Also have you read any of those New York Times "editorial" pieces they crank out? "Trump isn't so bad" and "Why I voted Trump and I'd do it again, gosh darn it, and you should too" are typical fare.

I haven't seen those, and I can't find them with a search. Do you have links?

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