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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 26, 2023, 7:02 pm
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It's OK for anchors to be "white":
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5wVuxG_MAA
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 17, 2023, 6:21 pm
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HTML https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/youtube-restores-donald-trump-s-channel-1.6318113
[quote]Alphabet Inc-owned YouTube said on Friday it lifted
restrictions on former U.S. President Donald Trump's channel,
following a more than two-year suspension after the deadly
Capitol Hill riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump now has access to key vehicles for political fundraising
and the ability to reach his combined 146 million followers
across the three major tech platforms as he makes another run
for the presidency in 2024.[/quote]
It goes without saying:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.
[quote]Founders
Larry Page
Sergey Brin[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page
[quote]Page was born on March 26, 1973,[19] in Lansing,
Michigan.[20][21] His mother is Jewish;[22] his maternal
grandfather later immigrated to Israel[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin
[quote]Brin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow in the Soviet
Union,[4] to Russian Jewish parents,[5][/quote]
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 14, 2023, 3:45 pm
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It doesn't get more obvious than this:
HTML https://www.salon.com/2023/05/12/cnn-told-town-hall-audience-they-could-applaud-but-not-boo-report/
[quote]CNN told Trump town hall audience they could applaud but
not boo: report
...
"The floor manager came out ahead of time and said, Please do
not boo, please be respectful. You were allowed to applaud,"
Bartlett said. "And I think that set the tone where people were
going to try their best to keep this between the navigational
beacons, and that if they felt compelled to applaud, they would,
but they weren't going to have an outburst or they weren't going
to boo an answer."
...
"In a TV setting, you hear the applause, but you don't see the
disgust," he said. "So Trump did not have the entire room on his
side, make no mistake, even if it certainly came across that way
on TV."
Bartlett also called out the back and forth between moderator
Kaitlan Collins and Trump, alleging that it limited the amount
of questions the audience got to ask, especially from those who
were "really disgusted" with and "ready to confront" Trump about
his behavior.[/quote]
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 17, 2023, 1:06 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ62P3j7N7Q
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 22, 2023, 7:24 pm
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Continuing from:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/hungary-v4/msg20376/#msg20376
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nBB3O6cQck
Woke comments:
[quote]We are expected to feel sympathy for those who have
benefited off the labour and suffering of others and expected to
disregard those who have suffered and are seeking
refuge.[/quote]
[quote]the media owners and their advertisers identify more with
the people on the submersible than the people on the overloaded
ship. [/quote]
[quote]The plight of the refugees is just too foreign. Living
in the west we can’t even imagine what would drive us to get on
an obviously dangerously overcrowded boat, presumably leaving
everything behind, and to go where?[/quote]
[quote]3789 lost their lives in the Mediterranean and Sahara
trying to get in the Fortress Europe last year and nobody gives
a f.... and the corporate media is almost silent.[/quote]
[quote]Thank you . MSM needs to do better.[/quote]
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 23, 2023, 4:52 pm
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Even Obama is chiming in:
HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12227609/Barack-Obama-questions-Titan-sub-got-coverage-refugee-boat-tragedy-killed-700.html
[quote]Barack Obama questions why Titan sub tragedy that killed
five got MORE coverage than boat with 700 migrants sinking off
the coast of Greece
...
Barack Obama has questioned why the Titan sub tragedy that
killed five men has received wall-to-wall media coverage - while
a boat sinking with 700 refugees on board has been ignored.
...
The overcrowded boat with hundreds of Pakistani, Syrian,
Egyptian and Palestinian refugees went down on June 14 - two
days before the $250,000-a-head OceanGate tour to the Titanic
wreckage was reported missing.[/quote]
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/non-aryan-adhd/msg20587/#msg20587
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthrough-anti-relativism/msg20591/#msg20591
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/msg20588/#msg20588
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 27, 2023, 3:06 pm
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What I have been saying for ages:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/americas-systemic-racism-isnt-just-093001745.html
[quote]America's "systemic racism" isn't just domestic: Consider
who dies around the world in our wars
...
Hidden in plain sight is the fact that virtually all the people
killed by U.S. firepower in the "war on terror" for more than
two decades have been people of color. This notable fact goes
unnoticed in a country where — in sharp contrast — racial
aspects of domestic policies and outcomes are ongoing topics of
public discourse.
...
when people of color live there, it is politically easier for
U.S. leaders to subject them to warfare — because of
institutional racism and often-unconscious prejudices that are
common in the United States.
...
A nation so profoundly affected by individual and structural
racism at home is apt to be affected by such racism in its
approach to war.
...
Yet the extensive political debates and media coverage devoted
to U.S. foreign policy and military affairs rarely even mention
— let alone explore the implications of — the reality that the
several hundred thousand civilians killed in America's "war on
terror" have been almost entirely people of color.
The flip side of biases that facilitate public acceptance of
making war on nonwhite people came to the fore when Russia
invaded Ukraine in early 2022. News coverage included reporting
that the war's victims "have blue eyes and blond hair" and "look
like us," Los Angeles Times television critic Lorraine Ali
noted. "Writers who'd previously addressed conflicts in the Gulf
region, often with a focus on geopolitical strategy and
employing moral abstractions, appeared to be empathizing for the
first time with the plight of civilians."
Such empathy, all too often, is skewed by the race and ethnicity
of those being killed. The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists
Association has deplored "the pervasive mentality in Western
journalism of normalizing tragedy in parts of the world such as
the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Latin America. It
dehumanizes and renders their experience with war as somehow
normal and expected."
Persisting today is a modern version of what W.E.B. Du Bois
called, 120 years ago, "the problem of the color line — the
relation of the darker to the lighter races." Twenty-first
century lineups of global power and geopolitical agendas have
propelled the United States into seemingly endless warfare in
countries where few white people live.
Racial, cultural and religious differences have made it far too
easy for most Americans to think of the victims of U.S. war
efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and elsewhere as "the
other." Their suffering is much more likely to be viewed as
merely regrettable or inconsequential rather than heart-rending
or unacceptable. What Du Bois called "the problem of the color
line" keeps empathy to a minimum.
"The history of U.S. wars in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and
Latin America has exuded a stench of white supremacy,
discounting the value of lives at the other end of U.S. bullets,
bombs and missiles," I concluded in my new book "War Made
Invisible." "Yet racial factors in war-making decisions get very
little mention in U.S. media and virtually none in the political
world of officials in Washington."
...
the people of color who've suffered from U.S. warfare abroad
have been relegated to a kind of psychological apartheid —
separate, unequal, and implicitly not of much importance. And
so, when the Pentagon's forces kill them, systemic racism makes
it less likely that Americans will actually care.[/quote]
A vicious cycle:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/military-subverters/msg3399/#msg3399
[quote]What kind of people join the US military is heavily
influenced by US foreign policy. The reason why so many racists
join the US military is because they see the US with a pattern
over many decades of waging war almost exclusively against
"Third World" countries (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Libya, etc.), therefore are predictably enthusiastic about
joining an organization that will allow them to kill large
numbers of "non-whites". Would these same racists be anywhere
near as enthusiastic about joining the US military if the US
hypothetically had a consistent pattern of waging war
exclusively against Western countries (including Israel)? Of
course not. If the US had such a noble foreign policy, we would
get virtually no racists joining the military, and many more
anti-racists enthusiastically joining instead.
So the answer is simple. If you want an anti-racist military,
first establish an anti-racist foreign policy.
(This is why I keep coming back to the glorious US bombing of
Serbia as what could have been the turning point towards a
leftist hawkism. Of course, a few years later, 9/11 happened to
put things back the way our enemies want them.....)[/quote]
Also remember that the only country ever to be nuked in history
was a "non-white" country. The best thing the US can do is
change this soon.
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 10, 2023, 1:16 am
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The best way to know that mainstream media has a rightist bias
is when it writes articles about itself having a leftist bias:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/bbc-just-t-stop-showing-070000676.html
[quote]The BBC just can’t stop showing its heinous bias against
Israel
Growing up, my parents would rail at media bias against Israel.
The biggest culprit was always the BBC; they had a couple of
friends who worked for the World Service, and they were grimly
spiteful and unfair to the Jewish state. At the time, I didn’t
care. But when I got older, and especially after 9/11 and the
start of the second Intifada, when I witnessed the moral
mendacity of the anti-Western intelligentsia, I became very
concerned indeed. I became acutely aware of how progressive
organisations would single out Israel for distortion, hammering
home a narrative that disfigured the truth. Things like: Israel
is an imperialist regime, an apartheid state, and its army kills
children.
While there are plenty of great people within the BBC whom I
know for a fact are fair to the country, last week provided
another reminder of how little has changed in its news culture.
The reporting of the operation in Jenin was typically skewed,
with the usual smoke and mirrors that made it seem that Israeli
forces were going after children. Meanwhile, a car ramming and
knifing in Tel Aviv was presented almost as: “what do you
expect?”
...
The Beeb occasionally indicates that it sees the error of its
ways. But the compulsion appears to hold firm. Namely: that the
state with the Jewish star on it is the only one that deserves
to be misrepresented, distorted and misreported.[/quote]
Fortunately the woke commenters know the score:
[quote]And the Israeli propaganda machine continues to churn out
the "poor me" story of the innocent little book worm farmer
tending his tomato plant at a Kibutz and reading Torah every
evening to his three little fresh faced children. It entirely
leaves out the reality that the little book worm uses his
Palestinian neighbor's house for target practice while IDF stand
by grinning. It leaves out the reality that the very first
Middle East Terrorists were ALL
Israelis...Irgun...Stern...Haghanagh. It leaves out an official
policy of ethnic cleansing by Jews of Palestine's indigenous
people.[/quote]
[quote]Here we go again...Apartheid Israel the only occupying
regime in the world playing the victims card yet again. Have
they ZERO self awareness???[/quote]
[quote]This is a propaganda piece designed to take the focus off
of the extremist violence that the Israeli Jews are perpetrating
against the Palestinians, by pretending to be "victims"
themselves, of "antisemitism".[/quote]
[quote]No one should ever dare criticize an apartheid
country.[/quote]
[quote]Apparently the BBC overlooks the 76 billion jews killed
in the holocaust.[/quote]
[quote]The only thing that's heinous is the lies that israel has
gotten away with for over 100 years, beginning with the lie that
they never planned to create a "jewish" state in
Palestine...[/quote]
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 10, 2023, 6:00 pm
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Re: Racist bullying
By: guest98 Date: July 24, 2023, 3:12 pm
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HTML https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2023.07.7.18
Special Report: The Mental Health Impact of Racism on Black
Communities—Acknowledging Patients’ Lived Experience
[quote]
In 2021, racism was declared a public health issue by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Every day there are
numerous violent tragedies across the United States, and many of
them involve racism.
It is particularly dangerous at this time to be a Black person
in America, and we must recognize that this takes a significant
toll on mental health.
COVID-19 devastated the United States, killing over one million
people, including disproportionate numbers of older adults and
Black and Latinx people. This resulted in significant losses of
parents and caregivers of children and youth, with more than 65%
of those losses affecting children of color. In many ways,
losses from COVID-19 parallel those resulting from HIV/AIDS,
which remain disproportionately high among people of color. Many
Black children were orphaned by HIV/AIDS and went into foster
care but ultimately were not adopted. The combination of these
impacts adds to the trauma experienced by this population.
Grief and loss, social isolation, and loneliness combined with
economic insecurity have compounded the negative mental health
impacts of the pandemic on people of color. Furthermore, the
pandemic curtailed cultural and religious rituals such as
weddings, funerals, and church gatherings, which usually offer
opportunities for fellowship in Black communities.
Black and other people of color were overrepresented among
essential workers and did not have the opportunity to work from
home. Furthermore, Black people’s shorter longevity has been
such that many do not have the chance to collect Social Security
after contributing to it during their work life.
The murders of unarmed Black people such as George Floyd and
Breonna Taylor at the hands of law enforcement exacerbated
trauma to people in an already stressful environment. A
succession of episodes of mass violence against Black
communities and other racial, religious, and LGBTQ+ communities
in schools, supermarkets, and other public settings further
compounded the trauma and added to the weight of collective
loss, grief, and horror associated with the pandemic.
Black and other people of color continue to face barriers to
treatment for opioid use disorder and overdose. Black people are
dying disproportionately from overdoses. Only since overdose
deaths began to affect suburban and rural
populations—populations that are predominantly White—has the
opioid crisis gained traction in the mainstream media.
Natural disasters are another source of disproportionate impact
on Black communities, particularly in the South, a region
rendered more vulnerable to climate-related disasters because of
its geography. The South has the greatest concentration of Black
people in the United States, and many Black communities there
are economically distressed, which makes it difficult for people
to prepare, evacuate, and recover from disasters and increases
the likelihood of death, destruction of housing, and other
losses that compound the negative mental health impact of
natural disasters.
Lived Realities of Racism
Being a Black person in this society is dangerous: There is no
guarantee of safety when going about one’s life doing mundane
things like grocery shopping, attending church, studying at a
university, or sleeping in one’s own bed. It is impossible to be
emotionally prepared to respond in real time to the racist
actions of people who see Black skin as a threat to their
physical safety. Living in such a charged environment can cause
hypervigilance, anxiety, and psychological distress.
Experiencing racial microaggressions in day-to-day life can be
humiliating, accumulating over time and assaulting one’s sense
of dignity. One must determine one’s threshold for responding to
microaggressions and decide whether to address them immediately
or ignore them. Under these circumstances, it is possible to
become overwhelmed by the frequency of microaggressions, which
can have a deleterious psychological impact.
Studies have shown that structural racism and the accumulation
of trauma serve as critical drivers of the transmission of
depression across generations. Being a victim of
microaggressions and hate crimes and experiencing adverse
childhood events such as a parent’s incarceration and difficulty
in finding employment, which has further downstream
consequences, are sources of cumulative trauma in Black
communities. Exposure to these traumatic events can increase the
risk of clinically significant symptoms; substance use
disorders; school refusal, trouble in school, and dropout;
disordered sleep; depression; anxiety; and suicidal ideation.
Black people are less likely than their White counterparts to
receive mental health care because of barriers such as stigma;
lack of insurance; limited access to mental health services;
When victimization of Black people is publicized in the mass
media, collective trauma affects members of Black communities,
even among those who are physically distant from the event.
Black people recognize that these are not just random events but
are possible in their own lives and the lives of their families
and friends. This experience of vicarious trauma can trigger a
sense of helplessness and hopelessness, but it can also motivate
people to engage in activism, protest against injustice, and
move toward empowerment.
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