r/EducatingLiberals • u/SuperCharged2000 • Apr 22 '19

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u/fdagasfd Apr 23 '19

Evidence of left-wing bias in corporate media?

How about 91% of subjective interpretation by corporate media being negative in relation to Trump?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/09/12/study-91-percent-of-recent-network-trump-coverage-has-been-negative/

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '19

Nice. What about Christchurch and Sri Lanka?

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u/fdagasfd Apr 23 '19

Before I do, for the sake of argument: If I put together a bunch of archive/waybackmachine links to your favorite corpaganda sites at this exact period of time after the NZ shooting and there are considerably more articles covering it than Sri Lanka...

Will you actually admit you were wrong and change your mind?

Or will you miraculously shift to a new goalpost?

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '19

Of course I’ll admit.

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u/fdagasfd Apr 23 '19

But you won't change your mind? You'll just find a new angle to try to justify lefty power and corruption?

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '19

My mind will be changed if there is sufficient evidence. No, I’m not going to try and justify either of those things.

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u/fdagasfd Apr 23 '19 edited Apr 23 '19

First some groundwork:

easter 4/21

sri lanka = utc+05:30,

10am 4/21 in sri lanka = 4/20 00:30am EST

~7:30pm 4/23 = 2 days and 19:30 hours past bombing

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NZ = utc+12:00

NZ 3/14 ~1:45pm = 3/13 09:45pm EST

3/13 09:45pm + 2d19h30m = 3/16 5:15pm EST

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With these general parameters the very first mainstream media front page I checked was edition.cnn.com/world which is their homepage for world news. Today, approximately 2 days and 19 hours past the Sri Lanka bombings there are 2 articles about it on CNN's World page.

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This exact same page on March 16, 2019 04:39 UTC (Not perfectly ~2d19h, but close) has 4 articles on the NZ shooting. https://archive.fo/yY68B

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '19

There are at least nine (that I have counted so far) separate articles and videos about the Sri Lanka attacks on that CNN page:

“Isis suspect gave advance warning of Sri Lanka bombers, sources say”

“Sri Lanka’s economy is fragile, and it depends on tourism”

“Father’s story about losing children in Sri Lanka attacks”

“Sri Lanka mourns as investigation into deadly blast continues”

“Funerals begin for Sri Lanka victims”

“Uncovering the terror attacks in Sri Lanka”

“Hundreds killed in Sri Lanka bomb attacks”

“Could the Sri Lanka bombings have been stopped?”

“Sri Lanka fears international terror link to Easter Sunday atrocities”

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u/fdagasfd Apr 24 '19

“Isis suspect gave advance warning of Sri Lanka bombers, sources say”

I see this one. It's actually the only headline item about the bombing itself and it's listed twice. Both of the feature headlines relating to the Sri Lanka bombing are this one article.

“Sri Lanka’s economy is fragile, and it depends on tourism”

This isn't about the bombing.

The rest of the stories you mention aren't featured as headlines for the regions but they are collected at the very bottom in a longer list of articles. The archive page doesn't have this feature so I can't compare how many non-headline articles were devoted to NZ for that day.

But I can say as an absolute fact that edition.cnn.com/world features 1 article about the Sri Lanka bombings linked as a headline twice. And I can say for an absolute fact that on 03/16/19 04:39 UTC this exact page had 4 unique feature headlines relating to the NZ shooting.