Posted on 09/08/2022 8:51:56 AM PDT by rktman
MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan called for media outlets to not cover both sides of what he called “major issues” during a Wednesday forum.
“There are two words we need to remove from our media vocabulary right now and that is ‘both sides,’” Hasan told Semafor’s Ben Smith, a former New York Times reporter, in a video posted on Twitter and YouTube. “This fundamental crutch, this reliance on ‘both sides’ as a kind of lazy way of covering our political moment is deeply dangerous.”
“There are a bunch of major issues on which there are not both sides,” Hasan continued. “There are not both sides on climate change. There are not both sides on white supremacy. There are not both sides to democracy. Ben, there are not both sides on the Holocaust.”
Hasan referenced comments by an administrator at the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, in October 2021 that said students should learn opposing views about the Holocaust.
“That’s not what the bill says,” Republican State Sen. Bryan Hughes of Texas, who wrote the legislation that required providing contradictory views on controversial issues, told NBC at the time.
“On the big issues of our time, on whether people should be able to vote, on whether they should be able to get to a ballot box, on whether one party should be able to overturn elections, no there are not both sides,” Hasan said.
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Islamist pr**k
I thought the media (at least the MSM) already had quit covering both sides of a whole lot of issues.
Hasan says the Plan outloud.
There is only one State narrative on
Holocaust
Climate Change
Multiple genders
Ivermectin.
They cover both sides. Far left and extremely far left.
They cover the left side and far left side
Unless the right side can be made to make Republicans look bad.
…about 50 years ago.
If it’s not crushed or contradicted it’s considered coverage. Basically, “ghost” any conservative view point. You know that’s how they see everything. THEY are correct since the “truth” is on their side. Facts? They don’t need no steenkin’ facts.......
We’ve got both kinds of political ideology here: Marxist and Leninist.
Whatever happened to the loyal opposition? Dissent is patriotic?
Demanding only a single point of view is a threat to our nation. Those making those demands are the terrorists. Those helping them enforce it are part of the conspiracy against our Constitution.
Didn’t they stop doing that decades ago?
“There are a bunch of major issues on which there are not both sides,” Hasan continued. “There are not both sides on climate change. There are not both sides on white supremacy. There are not both sides to democracy.”
Moron.
Oral flatulence, and here I thought methane was a contributor to climate change?
Hypocrites(what else is new).
Guess you missed the memo. Narrative deniers are the new alquida/isis/muslim brotherhood. Oh wait. They’re also good guys now and no concern. White Christian fundamentalist violent extremist militia types are the threat. Silly me. 😵💫🤬
Its a false narrative, just more gas-lighting for an already propagandized sheeple being taken to the next step.
Any issue is not 2 dimensional.
At best, issues are “spherical.” Most are just blobs that extend in various directions.
I’ve just reread “1984” and “Animal Farm”... and today’s news.
I can’t tell them apart.
Is this from 1975?
Functionally, yes.
But now there is only one approved narrative, and all the rest will be branded hate speech.
I could go on all day, listing the things the Left does really, Really, REALLY well, SO well that we can trust it all to their judgement and put the decisionmaking and implementation of all of these things DIRECTLY and UNIVERSALLY into their hands.
Insanity runs deep on the totalitarian Left. I guess this means we don’t have to hear Hasan’s side of things. Fine by me.
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