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1. conroy+fz1[view] [source] 2020-06-11 23:32:43
>>obilgi+(OP)
A friend lives in Seattle and texted me today about his visit last night:

> I was there last night and it's such a cool pseudo utopian place

> The media coverage of it is WILD

> People on the internet are convinced it's protected by armed guards and people are dying of hunger and instead its...like a music festival campground

> There are speakers, musicians, art walls. I took a group pic for a bunch of black guys last night and they were so proud of what was built because they felt like they fought for it, which in a sense, they did.

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2. collle+lS1[view] [source] 2020-06-12 02:52:45
>>conroy+fz1
> The media coverage of it is WILD > People on the internet are convinced it's protected by armed guards and people are dying of hunger and instead its...like a music festival campground

This seems like propaganda in its own right. With the exception of Fox and Sky, most news coverage I see on YouTube is neutral or positive:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=capitol+hill+au...

Most mainstream coverage of protests in general seems to be totally biased in favor of the protestors and against the police. The only big channels that show anything going in the other direction are, again, Fox and Sky.

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3. cma+G02[view] [source] 2020-06-12 04:30:25
>>collle+lS1
Fox is by far the most popular news channel in the US and pretty close to bigger than the rest combined.
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4. jiscar+WY2[view] [source] 2020-06-12 14:50:48
>>cma+G02
I've heard this explained by a comparison. If you have a block with four burger joints and one taco joint, you'd expect the taco joint to be the most popular.

Not saying this is correct, but I thought it was an interesting analogy.

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5. preinh+b43[view] [source] 2020-06-12 15:18:01
>>jiscar+WY2
So one might expect the taco joint to be the most popular.

But explicitly the parent is saying that the taco joint is more popular than all of the burger joints _combined_. Which is not what I would have guessed.

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6. seanmc+F53[view] [source] 2020-06-12 15:26:53
>>preinh+b43
If we are talking cable, I believe it. I haven’t had cable for the last couple of decades, I would venture that not many liberals, who tend to be younger, have cable. If you were going to start a cable channel now, who would you pander to: the audience that doesn’t have that much cable (liberals) or the audience that does (conservatives).
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7. jiscar+xB3[view] [source] 2020-06-12 18:27:50
>>seanmc+F53
Median age (2017)[1]: CNN 60 Fox News 65 MSNBC 65

From my peer group (around forty), rather than liberal vs. conservative breakdown, I'd say those who reluctantly subscribe to cable are sports fans.

[1]https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/heres-the-median-age-of-the-...

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