• 242@lemmy.cafe
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    3 months ago

    Like CNN is ever going to mention trumps age or any doubts about his mental capacity. They were bought out years ago.

    If you ever hear a right winger whine about CNN smack them in the face for being so ungrateful. They carry trump water all day, every day.

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      3 months ago

      Shit, NPR made a noticeable shift rightward during (and since) Trump’s presidency due to some perception of having a liberal bias for simply stating the factual news.

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        3 months ago

        I think it really depends on your station. I noticed a pretty big whiplash effect sometime around 2018 where they started really pushing back on pro-Trump guests in a way which they hadn’t done previously. Recently they seem to actually be pulling fewer punches, straight up calling Trump out for telling lies (rather than just “mistruths” or “dishonesty”). This morning they called out a Trump SEC appointee who was questioning if Harris could inherit Biden’s money. They seem to go back and forth depending on what specifically is in the news cycle.

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          3 months ago

          It definitely depends on the station…

          Not exactly my local station, but I love listening to Brian Lehrer on WNYC for that very reason. He’s so good at actually asking great follow up questions that I’m usually shouting at my radio while the host allows some conservative to spew outright lies.

          Brian Lehrer is the GOAT

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      3 months ago

      They need an external enemy to hate. CNN and the rest of the “mainstream media” is one of those. They could grant Trump whatever he wanted, and they would still attack because that is CNN’s only purpose in their headspace.