kalm wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 7:31 am
Mostly true. (Two words or less is limiting)
O’Donnell is a good example of corporatism and legacy news propaganda.
MSNBC’s niche is left leaning/neo-liberal infotainment…hosted by fair percentage of Republicans and former Republicans. Their job is profit and support of corporate owners and sponsors fit within a center left framework.
I know it is limiting and that limit was deliberate as it forces one to think holistically about an article and really distill down what it means to a reader.
My word or two to describe that particular article was "satisfaction". In that there are consequences in betraying the trust people have in a particular institution and that at least some people are willing to question the government scrip and push back.
You say "mostly true", I say it is above that (again just my opinion) and the article indirectly (I doubt the author meant to do this) highlights what I consider victories that happened during COVID and that the only people health officials have to blame is themselves.
This is pretty basic, and I am sure you know this from reading my posts, but I am in favor of less government and more freedom to choose. You are have a big heart towards others and that concern influences your beliefs in what role the government should play and how you interpret data. Both viewpoints are needed and while we will not agree in most areas, the discussion we will have makes us both better.
Again, depends on how you define those "Republicans". They may have called themselves that and stumped under that banner but it doesn't mean they are that. I am a firm believer that definitions of a word need to be considered very closely to see if those words should be used (and I am not a fan of big buckets, I like nuance
), to me they just used that term out of convenience, because they had to choose, and depending on where they were from, they chose who gave them the best odds of winning (Half of ND state "Republicans" are really neo-liberals at best and vote in line with the "Democrat" reps 75% of the time).
I like the term neo-liberal because that describes them much closer than Republican, I wouldn't call them conservative in anything but the very broadest sense of the word. The term Republican or Democrat, IMHO, shouldn't be used to describe a person except in the most basic of senses as it really doesn't describe that persons beliefs nor how they vote. MSNBC knows its audience (and it is why O'Donnell is there) and that leans very corporate (like you said) but it also is barely center (again per my left, center, right definition). I know there was a long couple of posts on that very topic (how one defines left, center, right) but for most people I know MSNBC is seen as a shill for the Democratic party first and big corporations second. Nothing in their reporting the last 8+ years has shown me otherwise.