LamieRobertson
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The Squad and who are they?
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Listen to this podcast if you are interested in a little more of what led up to the spat
https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=a...0NXNLd3BUNlgtUGNRYlpUU3hleU0&at=1563462178886
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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Who would be at all surprised to know that they were reported on the BBC? Who would be surprised to know that their coverage explained the facts and what both sides were complaining about rather than choosing to make an attack on either side?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47923753
There is a difference between news reporting and news entertainment. Enjoy Fox if you like, but don't pretend that its doing the same job as news outlets.
symyjym
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So basically I can hear that it was Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, who first highlighted these four women "of colour" and named them The Squad within her own party and basically accused them of being troublemakers, which could also, according to the podacast, be considered as racially motivated in itself.
symyjym
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Don't watch BBC these days, just Channel 4 and Al Jazeera. However the news channel doesn't change what the person in question says believe it or not? and I could have found similar clips but for using the first ones in the search.
I am not here to tailor my posts to suit certain individuals. You get what you are given.
Stato
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Amazing that you don't watch the BBC, but claim to know what it is permitted to report on. You get what you are given. Ask yourself who is giving it to you and why they are giving this and not something else.
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Free the people
Stato
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Insults and rudeness don't hide the fact that you haven't understood my criticism. There is no need to get cross. It's not my fault that nobody was interested in the outrage that you tried to stir up.
Stato
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No it isn't. Guess again.
Stato
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No pivoting, have another go.
LamieRobertson
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Hmmm...and the rest ...there is a heck of a lot more that refers to why Trump got involved which was your query ..you seemed to have admitted that ..or really you weren’t bothered anyway ..anyway i’m moving on..enjoy your thread
symyjym
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All it tells me is something that is already very well understood. Politics is a dirty game and this is nothing more than handbags and blown out of all proportion with people playing the race card including The Squad. You too should learn something and listen to what the American was saying in the video I posted.
Stato
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Okay, it looks like I'll have to explain it:
Fox News is a business. It has made billions by selling fear. It does this by finding people who will say the things that will make their audience scared or outraged, pointing cameras at them and asking loaded questions. They then say things that confirm the viewers worst fears and prejudices. The world is a scary place. The immigrants are not like us, they are our enemies. We better be aware or they will get us. How can we be aware? Watch Fox News. Oh, the world is a scary place. Repeat ad nauseum.
I've watched it occasionally and, like Jerry Springer, it has a certain perverse attraction. However. It is not news. It is not created to inform. It has an obvious agenda. Now the latter is true of journalism too, and whenever we read it, or watch it, we should be asking ourselves 'Why has this been created?' 'Who made it?' 'How do they expect/want me to react?' However, those who have asked themselves these questions and come up with different answers to yours are not sheeple, or 'idiot(s)', they are merely people with different views.
Nobody in the mainstream media is conspiring to keep secrets from us. The clue is in the word 'mainstream'. If they think that a lot of people will be interested, they will report it. Pretending that a point of view is banned or suppressed in a capitalist media industry is transparently dishonest. Fox can sell it, Breitbart can sell it, so they do. This doesn't mean that other outlets can or want to sell it, or that it's important, of interest to the general public, or actually true.
My criticism was that you suggested that people are not interested because it's not 'permitted to be reported' when this wasn't true. It had been reported. You just hadn't noticed the reporting, presumably because you didn't think it mattered until Fox set the new agenda.
LamieRobertson
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Erm I wasn’t the one who was asking...so i think i’ll pass on that invite ta very much
rogersix
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