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It’s obvious the media are not unbiased.

They’ll go full throttle on something like WMDs, border crisis, lab leak cover ups, etc., but also be complicit in burying things like the new border crisis (which appear worse than Trumps) this witness recanting, etc., when it doesn’t fit a narrative.

It’s concerning because there has to be some agenda somewhere for things to switch on and off like this.

Russia is the biggest threat, no, China is the biggest threat. Oh, no Trump said that, they’re not. But now they’re the biggest again.

It’s not “pelosi” it’s not the Congress, it’s most likely what people derisively call the deep state. Unelected bureaucrats with inertial agendas that filter down to the media.

I can’t imagine the media running with this 24x7 to make up for their previous bias and asking for forgiveness and demanding the government come correct.

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USA news media has always been biased. They used to be biased toward what would sell more papers, e.g. "Remember the Maine!" They still have that bias to some degree, but the overriding bias now that ownership rules have been scrapped is to report the interests of the five or six rich assholes who own most of our media. Since allied rich assholes control the military-industrial complex, we're constantly told to fear and murder brown people on the other side of the globe. Anyone, like Assange, who offers rational alternatives to that racist fear is sure to be the continual victim of biased reporting.

I'm not sure the media is complicit more-so than they are being manipulated by what they like / need: money; just as US corporations and through them the US government is being manipulated by what they need by China.

We'll let you sell in our market as long as you sign away all your IP is the same as we'll let you in on presidential press meetings as long as you'll say nice things.

Also, all those "anonymous" sources from "intelligence agencies" are information / propaganda plants. The CIA doesn't leak very often unintentionally, when it does, people get tortured (Manning / Assange) and/or exiled (Snowden).

IP is not a natural law. If a country doesn't want to enforce literal state control over your intellectual process or wants to enforce it in a more lax way, there is nothing wrong with that.

>We'll let you sell in our market as long as you sign away all your IP is the same as we'll let you in on presidential press meetings as long as you'll say nice things.

Those are not comparable at all though. One is a law that the US seem to believe is A Good Thing to try to enforce everywhere, but that doesn't make it universally true, while the other is preferential treatment (or corruption, abuse of power). One can be bad (it's not in this example IMO) while the other is always bad.

They are both an example of short term gain at the expense of long term viability based on poor judgement influenced by money.

"The idea behind the trap is that you drill a hole in a log and drop a small shiny object in the hole, then you drive nails into the shaft. The raccoon will see the shiny object at the bottom and want it, so they reach into the hole and grab it, but once they grab it they can’t pull their hand out because the of the nails that make the hole too small for their closed fist to get back through.

It is simple to seek the hole in this plan, why can’t the raccoon just let go of the object and pull their hand out? Billy’s grandpa explains that the strange thing about raccoon are that they are too stubborn to let go of the shiny thing. Once a raccoon decides that it wants something it becomes so determined to have it that it will not stop until it get the thing. So the raccoon will sit there forever until it ether pulls it’s fist out (which it won’t,) or the hunter comes along. Another interesting thing is that raccoons are not the only animals that do this human do this as well."

Anyone who says they're "unbiased" is lying.

Everyone has biases.

Is whether someone has the integrity to recognize and air them, while reporting matters of import that go against their own views/agenda.

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