thanks for you input Dave. I respectfully have to disagree. I can tell by your response we are just operating in vastly different paradigms.
Legacy media was very biased and this can easily be seen when msnbc or cnn aired a story and narrated to their leanings. If you went back and looked at long format of these videos on YouTube/X, you could see they cherry picked what they wanted to show. This is why legacy media is dying. They are not what you grew up with as a kid 30/40/50 years ago. Trump won despite all of legacy media promoting this bias.
I would assume almost all of your age demographic would disagree with everything I just said.
Being a nerd for facts, when they show the videos of what Trump says which is often provable lies and lies after lies, which can be facted checked I don't see how that is bias.
Just one simple example is Trump on video that the networks have played saying often that we "have the worst economy ever." That is a lie. If you look at the accepted international definition of "economy," it is measured by GDP growth. We are having the best economy of all major nations, other than India as measured by GDP. As the Economist and other international media ha said we are the "envy of the world". Europe is in terrible shape, The US Dollar has been mostly soaring as has the equity markets with all-time highs.
Often, the bias will be in the videos of Trump saying one thing and then saying precisely the opposite. Facts are facts not bias. And it is backed by video tape at his rallys etc, how can than be bias.
Grocery prices are higher due to, in the case of eggs, the millions of dead chickens due to bird flu. Coffee is increasing due to a lack of harvest due to extreme drought or heat, which most experts agree is due to fossil-fueled climate change. Yes, maybe 5% of scientists think it's just normal fluctuations.
Trump ran on lowering grocery prices. HOW? Harris had the only long-shot potential of going after price gouging (good luck with that and years of court fights) or being against mergers like the current Kroger case the Democratic Secretary of Commerce is fighting against. Trump has never suggested any specific way. Maybe price controls, which were a disaster the last time they were tried.
Anyway I could go on and on. Harris had specific proposals for each problem, while Trump just tears everything apart with no specific ideas other than his theory from his book, if you tell people lies enough they become facts. Just like how other dictators have rose to power. The border deal that many R's liked, but Trump told them to reject it since he would rather use it in his campaign than solve a problem. His entire life has been full of fraud (Trump U, his Charity, The Trump Org head in prison for tax fraud.etc), lies, six bankruptcies and nothing more than his ego, abuse of women, constant foul language and vicious attacks vs. any real solutions. He is an entertainer and circus act showman, not to be admired.
CNN, on most panels, had Scott Jennings always giving the Trump side of arguments. I don't see how you can argue with the facts of the fact-checkers on CNN that fact check both sides and in the debates etc have challenged Harris at times, but the truth is Trump simply lies, gives half turths and greatly exongerates far more if you fact check.
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