Trump will not go away because 1) despite his flaws he reaches a demographic no one else reaches and 2) the left will not want to give up the lucre of Trump click-bait.
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Bias is as much a product of what is covered as what is not, as much a product of the frequency as the content, and as much a product of the context as the facts.
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In the past the media had lost respect because they were in a bubble and the world they reported did not match the experience of many of the readers and viewers. The election of Donald Trump incited such a rage that they abandoned all precedence of journalistic integrity as long as the outrage of the day fit their narrative. Their bias became obvious and crippling.
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from Townhall Kurt Schlicter, We Should Cheer CNN’s Ritual Suicide The media babbles about “principles,” but as soon as they become inconvenient then out the window go those precious “principles.” A silly wrestling gif supporting the president “promotes violence against the
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From Fareed Zakaria in Foreign Affairs from 1997, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy: (this may require registration to read the whole article which I encourage. ) John Stuart Mill opened his classic On Liberty by noting that as countries became
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From Fareed Zakaria in Foreign Affairs from 1997, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy: (this may require registration to read the whole article which I encourage. ) Illiberal democracies gain legitimacy, and thus strength, from the fact that they are reasonably
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From Fareed Zakaria in Foreign Affairs from 1997, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy: (this may require registration to read the whole article which I encourage. ) It is odd that the United States is so often the advocate of elections
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From Fareed Zakaria in Foreign Affairs from 1997, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy: (this may require registration to read the whole article which I encourage. ) Finally, and perhaps more important, power accumulated to do good can be used subsequently
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From Fareed Zakaria in Foreign Affairs from 1997, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy: (this may require registration to read the whole article which I encourage. ) Since 1945 Western governments have, for the most part, embodied both democracy and constitutional
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An excellent summary of the difference between constitutional liberalism and democracy.
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In her book Patriotic Grace Peggy Noonan made a point I have repeated often in this blog. During the old days of three major networks we all got our news from the same sources. A small elite decided what was
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I am a fan of Fareed Zakaria and his CNN show “GPS”. Today (April 4, 2010) he had Tom Friedman (The World is Flat). While I disagree with much of Freidman, Zakaria allows different ideas to surface without the rudeness
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