On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:48:27 -0800 (PST), GM wrote:

> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 11:29:34 AM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
>>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:07:43 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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>>> > On 1/28/2021 9:23 AM, Leo wrote:
>>> >> On 2021 Jan 28, , Cindy Hamilton wrote
>>> >> (in >):
>>> >>
>>> >>> Disgruntled, uneducated whites have a nearly constant stream of Fox News
>>> >>> on televisions in salons, bars, and other workplaces. In the car they have
>>> >>> talk radio, which is where the right-wing media really got its start. Their
>>> >>> local television station is likely owned by Sinclair, so they get another dose
>>> >>> if they watch the evening news.
>>> >>
>>> >> While the cognoscenti listen to ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN. And they´re
>>> >> more believable because...
>>> >>
>>> >> leo
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > You left out this line
>>> > Take your pick. Fox News, OANN, Newsmax, Breitbart, ad infinitum.
>>> >
>>> > There is no doubt the ones you mention are left leaning.
>>> Only if you are a right-winger! To the rest of the world, CNN, the NYT and
>>> WaPo are to the right of centre.
>> Since we're talking about the U.S. and U.S. media, we might as well use
>> U.S. left/right conventions. Otherwise, we'd have to talk about right,
>> far right, and so far right it has an event horizon.
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> Good point - we are not "the rest of the world", we are the US...otherwise the conversation pointlessly "wanders"...

As it does when USians inevitably use the terms "socialist", "Marxist" or
"Communist" without having a clue what those terms really mean.