Big *sigh* for now....but a huge problem persists - false equivalence in the media. So, our turn...

[NRaleighLiberal]

What we have at DU is lots of smart people who spell things out clearly - cut through the bullshit. So that is the raw material each of us can do.

Whether it is use of Facebook, Twitter, news websites - both local and national - communication with our local politicians - carrying what a few good sites (like MediaMatters, TPM, etc) do but personalizing it - each of us doing our parts to call out the bullshit false equivalent practices each and every time, incessantly. Write letters to the editor, use the phone, do whatever it takes.

I know - they are owned by their wealthy, right wing corporate owners. But I am sure there is more each of us can do. And in just reading local news website reporting, the freeper flavored, hate inspired information gets out there in droves - it is hard to read. Somehow, the truth needs to be sitting there taking on the lies.

Because that to me is a root cause of the problem of the lazy, apathetic, uninformed low information, vote-against-best interest voters. The bullshit that they are being fed on radio, TV, print. It gets embedded, and puts them in the bubble of disinformation and misinformation.

I don't have the answers, but I think it is a problem, and somehow, it is part of the equation to getting the right people in place in elections.

[TwilightGardener]

1. The problem is that everyone wants to promote the idea that there are good people

in both parties who just want what's best for America and disagree on how to get there. And that's just not true. The Republican party is full of truly awful people. No one wants to admit that.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. the way that I think about it is sometimes a point of view is just plain wrong -

the right wing's use of religion to instill fear/drive lock step behavior, when the leaders act in the opposite way, is just one example.

This is where the Fairness Doctrine (or some sort of evolution of such) would be helpful. Citizens United means so much money pouring in to the right wing hate.

[gopiscrap]

3. No kidding, that's because the media is nothing but a corporate whore

and giant corporations spawned the tea party and financed them.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. agreed. so we know what we are up against.

[Xyzse]

5. It is false equivalence guised as being apolitical/non-political.

Many, even I have been trying to be as non-political as possible, through their way of speech and so forth, with the idea of trying to be seen as not to play favorites.

Unfortunately, I fear that many news media have gone too far with that, to the point that it has become political. Perhaps even without them fully understanding how.

In trying to maintain their tone in saying "Congress" rather than "Congressional Republicans" they suffer from lack of accuracy. In doing so, they lay blame equally through generalization rather than going in to specifics to find the actual root or the cause.

I agree it is a big problem.