What I think of as biased media is Fox lying repeatedly, suggesting that Dominion voting machines had switched Trump votes to Biden in the 2020 election. When Dominion sued Fox for defamation, Dominion’s attorneys proved that Fox “personalities” knew they were lying when they said it, but they kept repeating the lie. Their mendacity was gross enough that Fox wound up paying Dominion $787M to settle the suit.
How many times did Rudy Giuliani use right wing media to accuse two Georgia election workers by name of fraud for simple actions that were part of vote counting and vote storage procedures. He now owes them more than $100M after they sued him for defamation, showing that their lives were turned upside down, and their safety was repeatedly threatened by strangers who showed up at their homes after dark.
I agree Donna, that's biased media at its most despicable! I think it's a real shame that Dominion settled because holding companies accountable and setting those legal precedents is a really important thing.
I think that, while bias is unavoidable, it is on a continuum. It’s biased to suggest otherwise. This is the way the right has normalized Trump. “You say Trump lies? Look at the lies Biden’s told.” Are 2 armies equally bad if one has isolated and the other systematized atrocities on their hands?
That’s a really important point, Larry. I’d agree, this article paints a general “both sides are guilty” picture, which creates a potentially false equivilance.
What I think of as biased media is Fox lying repeatedly, suggesting that Dominion voting machines had switched Trump votes to Biden in the 2020 election. When Dominion sued Fox for defamation, Dominion’s attorneys proved that Fox “personalities” knew they were lying when they said it, but they kept repeating the lie. Their mendacity was gross enough that Fox wound up paying Dominion $787M to settle the suit.
How many times did Rudy Giuliani use right wing media to accuse two Georgia election workers by name of fraud for simple actions that were part of vote counting and vote storage procedures. He now owes them more than $100M after they sued him for defamation, showing that their lives were turned upside down, and their safety was repeatedly threatened by strangers who showed up at their homes after dark.
I agree Donna, that's biased media at its most despicable! I think it's a real shame that Dominion settled because holding companies accountable and setting those legal precedents is a really important thing.
I think that, while bias is unavoidable, it is on a continuum. It’s biased to suggest otherwise. This is the way the right has normalized Trump. “You say Trump lies? Look at the lies Biden’s told.” Are 2 armies equally bad if one has isolated and the other systematized atrocities on their hands?
That’s a really important point, Larry. I’d agree, this article paints a general “both sides are guilty” picture, which creates a potentially false equivilance.