USA politics, recent events.

[Midwest]

The days of pioneering investigative journalists is gone Westy.

Today we have simpletons with humanities degrees who either quote Twitter as an authoritative source or just regurgitate Associated Press press releases.

Thats without even delving into partiality.

Well, perhaps they should get their teeth into Trump. -

 

[electric al]

Do I like Donald Trump on a personal level ? No
Do I think the US needed a president such as a him ? Yes
The thing with trump is he refused to play the politician and diplomat. He was predictably unpredictable and
that kept people on their toes.
Of course he said some stupid stuff but he also cut through the crap at times and got things done. He put a lot of career politicians noses out of joint and his ante establishment brash style of governance made him a hate figure for many.
I do however think that for many he was never going to be given a fair chance and any achievements were going to be scorned , quite simply he polarised opinion. Maybe history will view him in a kinder light.

 

[nicebutdim]

Yes but we have been let down over here for years, the BBC for starters only tell half the story as they see it, that's why I and most others look online for lots of sides of the story to build our own conclusion, and Sky is heavily Tory , so news is the same here as the USA, one thing trump is right about and that is fake news, problem is he spouts a lot of it himself as well.

I don't have Sky, but wouldn't consider Sky news to have a Conservative bias. Kay Burly and Adam Boulton are about as anti-tory as it is possible to be.

 

[nicebutdim]

I confess I’d not really listen to his speech, but I’d heard of his tweets etc before and he’d been suspended from some accounts, because he had gone too far. He told his supporters to gather on the 6th Jan, then spoke on and on about fraud election & the steal etc. Which IMO resulted in stirring hysteria and the resultant violent mob.

But you have to confess, that the Biden You Tube thing wasn’t really what you thought it was, was it.

As I said before, if your looking for evidence to support your claim, you sometimes aren’t subjective enough. You see what you want to see.

You guys might have valid points, but you will have to leave it to the experts to investigate. Remember Nixon and the like; they don’t always get away with things.

I'm posting for myself and not as a representative of any 'guys'. I'm not looking for evidence to support any claims, but pointing out that much news is selectively reported.

The Biden video shows what I suggested it did: that Joe Biden sat on a stage and recounted how he'd pressured Ukraine into firing the prosecutor that was investigating his son. This is 100% factually correct, regardless of whether you believe it was coincidental or by design.

I'm not sure how to reconcile you statement that "resulted in stirring hysteria and the resultant violent mob.", when in the same paragraph you admit to 'not really' having listened to his speech. Those conflicting statements could be construed as meaning you accepted news reports (that you now know to have carefully selected what they were reporting) at face value.


On a different note; Trump's twitter ban didn't actually result from him having gone too far, but was actually implemented after a surprisingly innocuous tweet. I'm not claiming that Trump didn't tweet a lot of contentious comments, but making the point that those weren't actually the reason for his ban.

 

[nicebutdim]

Maybe history will view him in a kinder light.

They say that history is written by the victors. On that basis I'm not sure how history will record his presidency, given that many people flatly refuse to acknowledge anything that might be considered remotely positive.

I'm not sure when debate spirraled to such a partisan low point, but a considerable number of people refuse to accept issues in any terms other than black and white. For people of that mindset nuance does not exist.

 

[MDJ]

I don't have Sky, but wouldn't consider Sky news to have a Conservative bias. Kay Burly and Adam Boulton are about as anti-tory as it is possible to be.

?

 

[electric al]

It may not be long into the Biden administration before some realise trump wasnt that bad after all

 

[Darkwood]

Sky is a funny cookie tbh, European Sky news is very EU centric and is anti-brexit and often sides with left wing policies and views, if you were to duck down under and watch Aussie Sky news then you would see reporting that reflects the long running coalition which hovers around centre right since 2013.

It's quite a contradictory affair if you watch EU Sky and Aussie Sky, you can often see the opposite in reporting direction on the same matter, if we take Trump for example, EU Sky always seem to have a negative skew on any Trump story whereas in contrast Aussie Sky has a positive skew even on the same matters.
This simple example with the same company goes a long way to show why you should never accept these news channels are balanced and unbiased, they are simply serving the biggest financiers from that area.

 

[MDJ]

Sky is a funny cookie tbh, European Sky news is very EU centric and is anti-brexit and often sides with left wing policies and views, if you were to duck down under and watch Aussie Sky news then you would see reporting that reflects the long running coalition which hovers around centre right since 2013.

It's quite a contradictory affair if you watch EU Sky and Aussie Sky, you can often see the opposite in reporting direction on the same matter, if we take Trump for example, EU Sky always seem to have a negative skew on any Trump story whereas in contrast Aussie Sky has a positive skew even on the same matters.
This simple example with the same company goes a long way to show why you should never accept these news channels are balanced and unbiased, they are simply serving the biggest financiers from that area.

Sky UK is definitely a Rupert Murdoch pro Tory Channel and the earlier comment from nicebutdim was so hilarious I have still not stopped laughing, to suggest Adam Bolton was not a Tory is the most hilarious post I have ever seen, a brilliant bit of Comedy from the guy pmsl hahaha. as for Kay Burley she should be sacked for going to South Africa and then having to isolate when getting home for breaking the rules, the 6 month suspension is a farce, we have the BBC who are Left wing and Sky right wing, hence my comment about Fake news over here, one thing Trump has got right about the media

 

[MDJ]

It may not be long into the Biden administration before some realise trump wasnt that bad after all

I doubt it, the Yanks may think it Pal but everyone else in the world will know otherwise, Biden is already back into the Climate situation with us all and is trying to get Iran back on board, he is also actually giving a rubbish about corona virus and not playing golf instead, he needs time, but surely cannot be worse than the big orange buffoon.