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VBNMW_Realist

(17 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 07:33 AM 11 hrs ago

The "Liberal Media" Is A Lie

Aside from universities and other actual intellectual institutions (because reality has a liberal bias), analysis shows the biggest media outlets in the US are either centrist/nonpartisan or right wing. Here's why: because those are the people the establishment and billionaires want as a bloc.

Even in outlets like MSNBC and CBS, they still went along with certain ideas like "Joe Biden sucks" and at one point even "the coronavirus is no big deal". So they are not particularly left-leaning, though many people pretend that they are because it is convenient. Also, conservatives use the "liberal media" trope to cover up when they are wrong by blaming it on bias rather than having factually incorrect takes on things like vaccines and global warming in particular.

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The "Liberal Media" Is A Lie (Original Post) VBNMW_Realist 11 hrs ago OP
Has been a lie for decades SocialDemocrat61 8 hrs ago #1
They took out the "liberal" part after Vietnam orthoclad 6 hrs ago #4
Over 30 years ago - RB77 7 hrs ago #2
The fact that Joe Biden's approval is lower than Trump's shows how badly the media is reporting facts. Midnight Writer 7 hrs ago #3

SocialDemocrat61

(8,275 posts)
1. Has been a lie for decades
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 10:09 AM
8 hrs ago

As once stated by Bill Kristol - “The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.”
https://quotefancy.com/quote/1559012/William-Kristol-The-liberal-media-were-never-that-powerful-and-the-whole-thing-was-often

orthoclad

(5,021 posts)
4. They took out the "liberal" part after Vietnam
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 12:37 PM
6 hrs ago

Journalists were showing too many upsetting but true accounts and images.

Midnight Writer

(25,967 posts)
3. The fact that Joe Biden's approval is lower than Trump's shows how badly the media is reporting facts.
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 10:56 AM
7 hrs ago

The fact that Trump got elected again after the disaster of his first term is further damning evidence.

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