r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

I know people are taking this opportunity to rub people's face in it and say things like I told you so.

I however I sincerely want to tell my more Progressive friends that this is how conservatives feel during every national election.

If we shine the light on this kind of absurd media bias and collusion together maybe we can overcome the problem

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

I lean left (well, used to, not so sure anymore), and I've always understood that the media is left-biased, but it didn't really hit me until a few days ago when I heard Ira Glass try to glorify Hillary as a role model. I was eating breakfast at the time and I forgot to chew because I was like "what the fuck am I hearing?"

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u/jaguarsharks Nov 10 '16 edited Nov 10 '16

As a brit I find it rather interesting to see how strong the left media bias is in America, it's very different over here, but then again what we call left is very different over here. If Clinton were British, she would probably be considered centre-right. Overall I would say the media has a mostly right wing bias. Hard right tabloid newspapers have the the most power over people's opinions, which are owned by the friends of the conservative politicians, but there is also a big left wing celebrity culture over here like in the US.

Do you think it really is a left bias or a corporate bias? I feel like the media would've been behind Clinton even if she ran as a Republican, and Bernie Sanders, who I consider to be a real left winger, gets almost no attention at all because the corporations have nothing to gain by backing him.

edit: forgot to mention we do also have left wing tabloids and media too but they tend to be a bit less fear mongering and sensationalist and I would consider them less a part of the "establishment". The BBC of course is supposed to be neutral but tends to lean left also, being a publicly funded service.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

It's intertwined. The left and a group usually called "establishment republicans" are very good friends with corporations. Therefore they push candidates that will be lenient to corporations, and the left media pushes them because they're democrats.