On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 12:30:14 -0700, Graham > wrote:

>On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:48:27 -0800 (PST), GM wrote:
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>> 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:
>>>>
>>>> > 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"...
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>As it does when USians inevitably use the terms "socialist", "Marxist" or
>"Communist" without having a clue what those terms really mean.

Cindy knows, but generally speaking that's true.