Senkaku wrote:Torisakia wrote:Should I drink the Fox News/CNN kool-aid instead? Fuck me for wanting to be informed I guess.
I think if your goal is to be informed, you’d be better served by keeping up with what various outlets of all stripes are saying and trying to relate their stances to their compositions and interests, rather than limiting yourself to a very narrow slice of highly-online Yankee centrist sources. Truth is something to be arrived at dialectically; you’re not going to be better informed by restricting yourself only to the disingenuous antipolitics ideology of pundits like Nate Silver, you’ll just be passively absorbing their framing of every issue. Presenting oneself and one’s content as “neutral” is itself an ideological act.
Look, I just want to read about who's running, what platform they're running on, what they think on certain issues, and the like. I don't particularly care nor have an interest in some talking heads going on a three hour spiel about how Biden is actually a reincarnation of Charlemagne who is the savior of all humans or how Trump's immigration policy is actually a reference to Neon Genesis Evangelion. Those media outlets only exist to fling shit at the other side with no meaningful commentary or insight into anything. So far I've found those "highly-online Yankee centrist sources" to be very informative and easy to understand, unlike the Democratic/Republican circlejerk that exists on CNN, Fox, OANN, and others. Also given that I don't plan to vote for neither Biden nor Trump, I find the need to consume Democrat or Republican media to be redundant.