How Counter-Narratives Emerge

[hollodero]

(07-12-2017, 07:59 PM)Dill Wrote: Hannity continues to repeat it though, with a laundry list of other Clinton crimes.

Yeah look, I feel there's an elephant in the room as possible answer to your questions, which is that the certain part of the right that is the Hannity audience in average is lower educated and in all probability less intelligent overall. A leftist isn't necessarily Einstein either, but what some on the right believe in large numbers is astonishing. The craziest, most debunked, most ridiculous stuff. They eat up everything completely unquestioned that fits the prejudice. That certainly is true for my country, and it seems true for yours. A certain part of the right is highly susceptible for demagogry, and there's just no comparably large group on the left. The majority isn't just quite as gullible.

Hannity is, of course, a demagogue. And even when a Hannity cheerer might realize every now and then that this show might be slightly biased, he quickly thinks, ah, CNN and Co. is far worse. Or at least the same. Of course, they really aren't. Albeit far from perfect in many instances, like everywhere.
Trump plays a similar game, just politically. But MSM equals democrats, and liberals are despicable. Just say anything to feed that, doesn't matter what. Works for that crowd. And far too many bystanders.

So, yes it's widely a right-wing phenomena, the lapses on the CNN side (which really isn't that left or agenda.driven in the first place) and company are more due to sensationalism. CNN is in no way a democratic outlet like FOX is a republican outlet. And no way Trump's conduct is in any way comparable to things Obama did, or Hillary for that matter. That so many take the "equally bad" stance in all of these instances and can actually hold that belief is astonishing to me.