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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
There's an implied corollary of Poe's Law that says that if you spout the extremist lines often enough, you become one whether you truly believe them or not.
*snerk* *guffaw* Oh, gods, you're serious, aren't you? Fox is a propaganda network expressly intended to hold viewers inside the right-wing information bubble. Any resemblance to real journalism is a coincidence.
edited 5th Apr '17 11:12:22 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Fine, then, just the Federalist. A lot of conservative voices here, fake news not invited:
http://thefederalist.com/blog/
There isn't much, if any, because there doesn't need to be. The substance of the Democrat platform is fine, people who look at substance tend to vote Dem, where we are weak is out soundbites, it's our messaging. The target group is low information voters, that means we don't need more depth or substance, what we need is more flash and glamour.
Yes my list is basically all flash and no substance, that's because we're doing fine on substance, but we're doing terrible on flash and flash is what the voters we need look at.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThe Economist, Forbes and WSJ are pretty good for intelligent right-wing thought. Personally, I actually like the Economist and WJS(usually).
If you want what the masses believe then Breitbart and the Drudge Report would be what you should be looking at but I really recommend that you not. Both are awful. Breitbart is much worse though.
edited 5th Apr '17 11:19:12 AM by MadSkillz
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For town halls and the like where you need to expand, look at my earlier post: [1]
Anyway, the only thing that will convince me that Trump voters can be reached and that the majority of them are not like the people in the posted articles that set us off is a reliable poll indicating Trump's approval becoming so low that it indicates a crumbling floor in his voter base. Maybe something along the lines of 25% or less.
Disgusted, but not surprisedThe Wall Street Journal is a Rupert Murdoch mouthpiece that shills free market ideology without the slightest shred of journalistic or intellectual integrity. Paul Krugman, Brad DeLong, and many other mainstream economists have called it out repeatedly for its malfeasance and outright lying, including the publication of pieces that are founded on discredited papers like the Reinhart/Rogoff "Growth in a Time of Debt
" study. They're also big fans of the Heritage Foundation, which has produced some legendary whoppers.
As with Fox News, any accurate journalism found in the WSJ is by coincidence, not design.
edited 5th Apr '17 11:29:14 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I'd actually favor Fox News over the Federalist. Pundits aside, the actual news broadcasters on Fox at least try to maintain journalistic integrity. The Federalist blog, which should apologize at the graves of Hamilton, Madison, and John Jay, is just wannabe O'Reilly's and Hannity's without Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace.

Silasw's list seems like good soundbites. Wondering what the substance is behind them.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman