Cable News Trips Over Itself to Protect Right Wing

Mainstream media pushes the right-wing talking point that Democrats are extreme. John Iadarola and Brooke Thomas break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: 

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"Cable news channels used variations of the label “far left” or “extreme” in discussions about Democrats, progressives, and their policy ideas over six times more often than they used variations of the label “far right” or “extreme” while talking about their conservative counterparts.

Over a four-week period, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News discussed extremism on the left or right a total of 547 times; 86% of these instances framed the American political left as extreme. This trend is in stark contrast to data showing that the Republican Party is further away from the political center than the Democratic Party, and it leaves viewers misinformed about each party’s position by lending undue credibility to the right-wing talking point that Democrats are extreme."

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