To all of the “neutral” folks:
Wouldn’t “neutral” mean you could swap headlines and photos and still have the same emotional response (because that is the aim of propaganda, to illicit an emotional response)?
I don’t think this would garner the same response if it was switched.
It is subtle propaganda (apparently), but biased propaganda none the less.
Not necessarily. One snip gives an example of a positive quality of the person in question paired with a positive leaning photo. The other gives no such example of quality (and in fact uses authoritarian language as a way of swaying opinion) paired with a photo doctored to (at least in my mind) resemble historically negative figureheads.
This is a form of bias and propaganda.
Exactly! Additionally, the visual cues that are obviously being used paint a very different picture.
Propaganda isn’t really difficult. It just requires a predisposed audience.
“My God! It just falls right out!! It’s you!! You are the one I turned out last night!!”
Having been the one who brought it up, (and since I got here first) I guess I will super duper reluctantly be the enforcer. I super don’t want to y’all guys! But this is for the good of the collective!
Well…yeah, but what about the “Fuck Elon Musk” initiative? YOU HAVEN’T THOUGHT OF THE “FUCK ELON MUSK” INITIATIVE YOU BITCH!!
This is the equivalent of the 5G panic, but it suits the perpetually online population better, so it’s totally not a conspiracy theory this time.
I find it important to call out any media bias no matter how “tepid” you may find it.
It’s the deluge of “tepid” examples of bias that makes us complacent when what you might consider “real bias” comes up and goes unnoticed and/or unquestioned.