07-17-2016, 09:22 AM
Ah, the magic of biased "news reporting" where anyone with a microphone, a camera, and editing software can fool rubes into thinking their side has good ammunition.
I don't need to watch anything to know that what has occurred to create this question is using selective sampling and then editing to create the illusion of more than a slim minority of the group being dumb asses. It's a common tactic with these. We saw it with the TEA Party rallies where the media made the crowd look like dumb hicks.
Then, of course, you have the pundits that selectively sample videos from wherever they can and show snippets of them to do the exact same thing. Doubling down on the confirmation bias.
Any time you see something like this, any time at all, just take it with a salt cellar full of salt because it is likely to be intentionally biased. Especially from a media source that is known to have biases.
I don't need to watch anything to know that what has occurred to create this question is using selective sampling and then editing to create the illusion of more than a slim minority of the group being dumb asses. It's a common tactic with these. We saw it with the TEA Party rallies where the media made the crowd look like dumb hicks.
Then, of course, you have the pundits that selectively sample videos from wherever they can and show snippets of them to do the exact same thing. Doubling down on the confirmation bias.
Any time you see something like this, any time at all, just take it with a salt cellar full of salt because it is likely to be intentionally biased. Especially from a media source that is known to have biases.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
