I think it is clear that they are not out there to inform the citizenry in any meaningful capacity. (Side note: I suggest watching the channel every now and then just to get an idea of what the largest “news” channel is feeding Americans.)
Television is meant to sell ads and blanket the nations with a haze of opiates in order to keep us pacified and distracted and far too stupid to make waves.
And people blame religion for this stuff ...
NYT, CNN, etc are biased towards other things first (conflict, spectacle, consensus) and while the majority of their staff likely have a liberal bias, they are not actively partisan.
Someone should do something about that Stewart fellow if he keeps getting away with the stuff
It's very effective.
Eh, wrong is too weak. I think you fully understand the false comparison you are making and how it influences public discourse
You might not agree with Stewart's principles, but he has them and will fight his own party over it. Tucker flew over to Russia to kiss Putin's behind and even Putin made fun of how bad it was. He then tried to show how awesome it was in Russia and made it obvious that he hasn't been in a grocery store in ages.
Where Stewart has and does continue to work successfully with several mainstream media channels, Carlson is so dislikable he can only be heard because he founded his own podcast. Truly, it is a great country that has the laws protecting that man's right to keep being heard.
Clumping everyone in one group is actually one of the goals of this: to get people tired of trying to figure out reality and to give up.
As obvious as it is - when you think everyone lies, liars will be the only ones who win. When you think that everyone is the same - the worst ones will win every time.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1895597181945725304
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1905778768511406175
Boolean is a more general concept in algebra, tracing back to George Bool. That many programming languages call the 2-valued data type that expresses truth values as some variant of "boolean" is unfortunate.
What is meaningful is the degree to which they are, and what else they are. I don't think we need a pedantic debate about Fox News.