Why do you disbelieve me? Do you think that PBS news wouldn’t focus on the political beliefs of a political activist without actually mentioning what those beliefs are when eulogizing him? They talked about how he was big in the Maga movement and how he was close to trump, but they didn’t mention any of his horrible views that he got flack for. When you don’t mention what his actual horrible views were and instead focus on a bunch of politicians’ generic condemnation of political violence, It’s not exactly a stretch to think that a viewer could think he was killed for his opinions or his political stance. PBS didn’t say that directly, but they don’t have to for people to take that message away.
One was Fox News
Shocking
the other was PBS news
No, it wasn’t. Bullshit.
don’t forget the 247 (/s) random politicians who condemn political violence.
Okay. That’s just what they feel they have to do for appearances. Even the ones who actively wish for political violence (Trump) say that shit. No one should be surprised there.
AndiHutch@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
PBS is a respectable news source that I trust. Some internet rando is not.
AndiHutch@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Sorry to break it to you, but PBS Newshour is not immune to corporate and political bias, just because it is(was? Idk honestly) partially publicly funded. They have sponsors to please and viewers to pander to just like other stations. I do generally think they are better than most broadcast news but they are still biased towards a general pro-corporate sanitized viewpoint. If a CEO (or any important western figurehead) dies they aren’t going to focus on harms they did, they will focus on telling how they were such a great loving family man regardless of if it is true.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sounds like you don’t know much about PBS but confidently wanna mansplain it to me
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sounds like a personal failing to me.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I watched PBS news tonight as well, and what AndiHutch said was pretty much right on.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Then that would be out of character for the network. No group of people is perfect. Which is seemingly what a lot of lemmings expect. They will always be disappointed.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I’ve been watching PBS, listening and donating to NPR for decades. I don’t know if it’s me, but it really seems in the past couple years they’ve really bent over backwards to not seem partisan. Which has made their reporting and coverage somewhat lackluster.