funkervogt wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 3:18 pm
I finally clicked on this thread to see what it was about. Instead of it being full of articles that show the perspectives of politically conservative people, it's full of articles that criticize them and make them look bad.
The thread should be renamed "Anti-conservative news and discussions".
I think that it is certainly true that a majority of news sources cited in this thread are liberal. Still, the thread does include citations from
National Review and
The Bulwark. More open to question are
Newsweek,
The Business Insider and various local news channels. Are those sources liberal or conservative? There was a time where I thought of
Newsweek as being a mildly conservative news source.
While most of the news sources cited (excluding the above) are more to the left, they often sympathetically cited conservatives such as Laura Boebert uncharacteristically criticizing Marci Greene, Liz Cheney, conservative scholar Henry Olsen, Mitt Romney, Lindsay Graham, David Jolly and Kevin Down.
Of course, a lot depends on what you define as "conservative". In most cases, these "conservatives" were criticizing more right-wing extremist views.
A thesis I have been trying to push, regrettably largely ignored by other posters in this thread, is the Trump and the MAGA crowd are so extreme that they do not deserve to be considered "conservative." Nihilist perhaps, fascists maybe, or just plain batshit crazy, but not "conservative" in any sensible sense of the word. Citation of the conservates I list are often very much an effort to reassert the philosophical doctrine of conservatism in the face of that word being hijacked by folks who are anything but "conservative." Sometimes by spokespersons who are very inconsistent in that regards. Certainly, Laura Boebert and Lindsey Graham have suffered from such inconsistency.
Yes, more often than not, coverage of these "conservatives" involved citing "liberal" sources.
Edit: Removal of the word "not" before liberal in first sentence of my reply to reflect my original intent. Also, to correct the spelling of "inconsistent" "inconsistency" and "regards."