Short and well worth watching.
A familiar enough viewpoint perhaps, but implications are still worth revisiting. For example, one implication is that those people who do trust the mainstream media have adopted a political viewpoint, knowingly or not. Their trust is itself a political stance.
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I wonder if there ever was a time as described when the MSM believed they were publishing unadorned truth and letting the public make up their own mind. I think it's more likely that they have always known that partisanship sells because people like to be flattered that their own worldview is treated as "news" rather than opinion or propaganda. This has become more obvious because we now have more conflicting outlets, a more superficially literate public with Blair's "graduates", and a race for sensationalism.
As ever, the BBC are the worst. I'd rather have blatant propaganda and lies than a left-liberal globalist bunch of Oxbridge tossers talking down to me in an attempt to steer the country in their direction.
Sam - that was my reaction, wondering if the MSM ever did publish unadorned truth. What caught my attention was the claim that the bias problem is mainly seen by older journalists. As if bias has always been used to sell versions of the news, but the media now focus their bias on a readership which is smaller than they think and possibly shrinking.
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