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Henges24 said:
Reuters has been left leaning for the past year, IMO. It's sad to see a once truly balanced media option turn to take a side.

It is still one of my first news sources I look to, but once they start swaying your opinion in print, I have to move on.
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Reuters can vary a bunch from writer to writer, and that's been the situation for a long time. I think the difference is, whoever is editing or choosing the stories, has changed, or is folding to some pressure. And you're right, the lean has increased more and more.

But yes, sad, as it's my go-to as well.
 
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Saw a good commercial a bit earlier on the SCOTUS situation.

More less said RGB was confirmed in 43 days, O'Connor in 30 something days, and that 8 out of 10 SCOTUSs in this situation (assuming they meant with a POTUS in the last year, and with a same party Senate) were also confirmed.
 
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drayer54 said:
Even the objective media has shown up. Reuters usually get passed off as a fair source too!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">spot the difference. <a href="https://t.co/VglkcYBwOT">pic.twitter.com/VglkcYBwOT</a></p>— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) <a href="https://twitter.com/loganclarkhall/status/1308493950542544896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Henges24 said:
Reuters has been left leaning for the past year, IMO. It's sad to see a once truly balanced media option turn to take a side.

It is still one of my first news sources I look to, but once they start swaying your opinion in print, I have to move on.
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Irish YJ said:
Reuters can vary a bunch from writer to writer, and that's been the situation for a long time. I think the difference is, whoever is editing or choosing the stories, has changed, or is folding to some pressure. And you're right, the lean has increased more and more.

But yes, sad, as it's my go-to as well.
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This is really disappointing to see. As someone who used to work within the Reuters organization (Not the news, different branch) until recently, they were adamant to avoid biased reporting for years. After the 2016 election they sent out a company wide memorandum that they would avoid playing politics and continue to report just the facts without the opinion. It looks like they're getting away from that, which is sad. It was one of the last bastions of solid reporting, hopefully they find their way again.
 
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ulukinatme said:
This is really disappointing to see. As someone who used to work within the Reuters organization (Not the news, different branch) until recently, they were adamant to avoid biased reporting for years. After the 2016 election they sent out a company wide memorandum that they would avoid playing politics and continue to report just the facts without the opinion. It looks like they're getting away from that, which is sad. It was one of the last bastions of solid reporting, hopefully they find their way again.
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Reuters referred to the shit in Louisville tonight as "mostly peaceful." The media is broken
 
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NorthDakota said:
Reuters referred to the shit in Louisville tonight as "mostly peaceful." The media is broken
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Thought you were kidding for a moment, but sure enough...

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Looks like they updated the article though. When you go to the link the title changes to "Two police officers shot amid Louisville protests over Breonna Taylor ruling" and there's no mention of the peaceful protest anymore. Looks like whoever wrote the first article jumped the gun, it was written before the 9pm curfew.

Prayers for the officers injured tonight and the family of Ms. Taylor.
 
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ulukinatme said:
Thought you were kidding for a moment, but sure enough...

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Looks like they updated the article though. When you go to the link the title changes to "Two police officers shot amid Louisville protests over Breonna Taylor ruling" and there's no mention of the peaceful protest anymore. Looks like whoever wrote the first article jumped the gun, it was written before the 9pm curfew.

Prayers for the officers injured tonight and the family of Ms. Taylor.
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I mean, it was mostly peaceful shootings and fire setting. They were the least violent shootings and arson I've ever seen.
 
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Why the need to even jump to ‘mostly peaceful’ for every single protest,... that alone....
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Let the hate begin. <a href="https://twitter.com/billmaher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillMaher</a> on Amy Coney Barrett: “A fucking nut.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealTime?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RealTime</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmyConeyBarrett?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmyConeyBarrett</a> <a href="https://t.co/Qm7BPAtkt9">pic.twitter.com/Qm7BPAtkt9</a></p>— Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentHBaker/status/1309677444199321600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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The democrats are probably going to run Barrett through the meat grinder which will be a bad look to squishy Catholics and middle aged white women. Very risky because of the wall to wall coverage and they need those two demographics to show up IMO.
 
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NEIIrish said:
The democrats are probably going to run Barrett through the meat grinder which will be a bad look to squishy Catholics and middle aged white women. Very risky because of the wall to wall coverage and they need those two demographics to show up IMO.
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I was a little surprised that Maher said what he said. We all know he's big time anti religion, but he's also been surprisingly critical of Dems doing stupid things that help the Repubs. And like you said, Dems going bat shit crazy on a woman and a Catholic will likely lose them some votes.
 
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This is going to be beautiful watching Libs get mad at her. Genuinely disgusting people who will stop at nothing in the name of slaughtering the unborn.
 
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This is going to be beautiful watching Libs get mad at her. Genuinely disgusting people who will stop at nothing in the name of slaughtering the unborn.
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They were already trying to bring her down on Twitter yesterday. Calling her Aunt Lydia or something, ties to Handmaiden's tale or some shit. I wasn't really paying attention, wasn't worth the pixels it was printed on. ACB could be Mother Theresa and they'd call her a slut. Silly stuff.
 
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ulukinatme said:
They were already trying to bring her down on Twitter yesterday. Calling her Aunt Lydia or something, ties to Handmaiden's tale or some shit. I wasn't really paying attention, wasn't worth the pixels it was printed on. ACB could be Mother Theresa and they'd call her a slut. Silly stuff.
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Yea, I saw something that promoting Notorious ACB t-shirts with ACB wearing a crown like RGB. Somebody replied saying Aunt Linda was not RGB....

And saw this too.....

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Margaret Sanger was a rabid racist, who shamelessly espoused abortion as a weapon to eradicate black Americans, so this is at the very least ironic... <a href="https://t.co/rEuZGTnlA9">pic.twitter.com/rEuZGTnlA9</a></p>— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1309905373466255361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Need to put the confirmation hearings on a fast track so we can watch a real meltdown.
 
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Irish#1 said:
Need to put the confirmation hearings on a fast track so we can watch a real meltdown.
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if you have a tweeter, just search on SCOTUS. The level of meltdown and butt hurt is already incredibly high. The debate and SCOTUS stuff should make this week truly lit.
 
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TorontoGold said:
What a world - Columbia University (Ivy League school) is too Liberal to use as a source. However, Ian Miles Cheong, who's a noted Hitler apologist is A-OK.

For those who don't know about IMC, some good background on him - https://medium.com/@dashwallkick/a-thousand-ants-a-million-faces-ian-miles-cheong-b32d8c356114

Dude, you're better than that.
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I have no idea who IMC is. His tweet is a video, not a study. There's vids up all over from a bunch of accounts about the car running over folks. Is the video wrong. Is it a Rusian deep fake? Did Hitler do it?

Good try though.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Liberal loses his mind over fear of Trump appointing a conservative judge after RBG! <a href="https://t.co/HLqeHYIXDR">pic.twitter.com/HLqeHYIXDR</a></p>— REMASCULATE! (@REMASCULATE) <a href="https://twitter.com/REMASCULATE/status/1307515645924446209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

drayer54 said:
It would be more appropriate for Mitch to call for a voice vote tomorrow to confirm.
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Do you really want to miss the next couple weeks?
 
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