The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(04-11-2020, 07:50 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I came to the same conclusion without Rachel. As a matter of fact, I knew about it before the show that you watched aired. I do watch blue media from time to time and blue media was highly partisan and still is highly partisan. Same o, same o, still applies. Fox is more middle of the road with the exception of Hannity and Ingram to a lesser degree. CNN and MSNBC are an extension of the Democratic Party for the most part.

You still criticized a particular report based on your way of looking at things only.  We have lots of examples on this site of how a particular person’s primary perspective effects whether certain types of reporting are accepted.  People seek out news that conforms to their world view.  To do this, they have to defend their world view, deflect facts which would be inconsistent with one's beliefs.

For me, I started taking Coronavirus seriously early, as that is what blue folk do.  I called it the Trigger and stopped working my no-Trigger Crises analysis early on.  For you, you quote friends of a friends of a friend, but are ever so willing to assume your prejudices are correct and report them as if they are factual.

Red world views artificially emphasize the importance of economics, while the blue tends to look more at science and the longer view.  I am happy to see your conclusions are with the scientists on the Coronavirus problem, but still the pollution, warming and infrastructure warnings slide off as fake news and hoaxes.  That seems to be what happens whenever big government action or scientific analysis is presented.

I don’t know that we can afford it anymore.