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AsaNisiMAGA 10 points ago +10 / -0

Please link those reports. What I've seen shows all broadcast and cable ratings are down, significantly. Also I've been wondering lately if Nielsen etc. are as fake as the polls and have been for a long time. Wrote about it here recently. How else to explain the success of garbage like "Two and a Half Men"? People were enthusiastic about new episodes of old shows like "Seinfeld." Is there anything on the networks anyone is excited about now? Maybe "The Mandalorian" but not much else.

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mightyclaw 6 points ago +6 / -0

I think we significantly broke the official narrative on almost everything, in the sense that we got a look behind the curtain and saw that any number of things we'd been told were wrong: the news media admitted (NYTimes) that they would lie about Trump; the hospitals and local governments admitted that they lied about COVID numbers (testing with faulty tests, testing people who died of other things, "assuming" infections in people who died untested); many hundreds or thousands of ballots were shown to be illicit or mishandled or illegitimate in one way or another but courts would dismiss for "standing" or "failing to find criminal intent" or simply refuse to consider evidence; the news media refused to report evidence like Hunter's laptop or cardboarding over the windows in Philadelphia to prevent poll watchers seeing what was going on, etc., etc., so millions went unaware of it.

They showed their hand, sometimes voluntarily and sometimes because we made them, but we saw it and we must not let ourselves forget what we saw.

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TiredCampaigner 4 points ago +4 / -0

I know you're new here and all but quite frankly the easiest way is to treat any of the national media outlets as compromised. Fox included. None of them are here to help you or inform you. All of them are here to spread a narrative. The problem with Fox is that they're a bunch of Lefty Communists too, they just keep it on the DL.

I repeat: there are exactly zero national news media outlets that can be trusted. Some are better than others, but none are completely on the level.

Start from the base position that whatever you're reading is full of shit and go from there. You'll be amazed how easy it is to see past their bullshit.

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tattoosncupcakes 1 point ago +1 / -0

You are correct here. My local news media is controlled by their national handlers. You can watch the narratives trickle down from the top to local channels. Even my teeny weeny little town paper often reprints stories & when they aren't simply reprinting them it is easy to see that the local journalist put an 8th graders amount of effort into not plagiarizing the original & nothing more. Not a single ounce of additional research or even an added thought of their own. But. People are human, & tons of journalists are narcissistic. If you read enough stories about the same topic you are eventually able to piece together from the many the few facts that remaind true thought them all.

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TiredCampaigner 1 point ago +1 / -0

Read as many different sources as you can and use your own brain to see what makes sense and what doesn't. Learn to find the nuggets of truth to put the actual picture together and don't trust any of them to tell you the truth.

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go2marakesh 2 points ago +2 / -0

I have seen that headline around but its not clear to me whether Fox just lost views or somehow CNN is gaining them. I don't see any reason CNN would gain viewers and a lot of reasons people are abandoning Fox.

Of course, they're going to report CNN as winning something even if their ratings are the same as ever.

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JackLemon 0 points ago +1 / -1

The LA Times are proven fake news propagandists. They have zero credibility with anyone brighter than a goldfish.

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