CNN’s Ryan Girdusky fiasco is part of a much bigger problem in mainstream media
CNN’s Ryan Girdusky fiasco is part of a much bigger problem in mainstream media
By obsessively trying to have ‘balanced’ discussions, mainstream television news keeps platforming extremists
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Yeah, the whole point of extremists is to get their message out, loud, often, and to as many people as possible. The average person will ignore them, but they are not aiming their rhetoric at the average person.
Issue is that if people start ignoring it, those who get pulled in feel emboldened in their actions
You are describing kamala zealots in politics news subs on lemmy.world?
People who want basic human dignity & rights = zealots
May not be the perfect candidate but it's the best we got this side of tearing the whole shit down....but that's another post/discussion