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Republicans work to recast Democratic protests as out-of-control anarchy: ‘An angry mob’:

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When thousands of furious, screaming protesters marched toward the Capitol over the weekend as Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh was confirmed, Republican staffers peered out at the scene from the windows above. They were not alarmed but elated.

Weeks ahead of the midterm elections, Republicans have cast the Trump resistance movement as “an angry mob,” a term used by many of them to describe a faceless amalgamation of forces that they say threaten the country’s order and, they hope, energize their voters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli..._term=.5dd351c235a7&wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1
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This could be posted elsewhere but I chose the Bias In The Media forum because of the headline ... and because of other WAPO headlines today.
You can tell where a story is going by the headline.

Today's top WAPO headlines as sent to my INBOX ...

Republicans work to recast Democratic protests as out-of-control anarchy: ‘An angry mob’: (They were mobs. They were angry. There were arrests. No one stopped them from roaming the halls. They stopped elevators. They shouted down speakers at hearings. They were paid. But they weren't "recast" as an angry mob. They were an angry mob. An angry mob organized by paid professionals to direct paid players and others there to vent and claw at the doors to the Supreme Court.)
President Trump, ‘angry mobs’ and ‘very fine people’ - The Fix • Analysis -(this one is accompanied by a picture of a tiki torch march)
Trump stokes tensions over Kavanaugh confirmation battle - (WAPO is pissed Trump apologized to The Kavanaugh family.)
Pack the Supreme Court? Why we may be getting closer. - The Fix • Analysis - (WAPO has Fingers crossed, amiright?)
Susan Collins’s wrong claim on Planned Parenthood and Supreme Court justices - Fact Checker • Analysis - (It's Kessler, waddyagonnado)
McConnell signals he would push to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 despite 2016 example - (And they don't like it one bit)
Amid Kavanaugh uproar, changes to Congress’s sexual harassment rules stall - (Get the message?)
Trump says he likes Taylor Swift’s music ‘25 percent less’ after midterm endorsements - (That's certainly an important story)
President says he is ‘concerned’ about missing Saudi journalist - (He shouldn't be concerned? Oooooh, the single quotes printed around the word because no one can see air-quotes ... I get it now)
After selling off his father’s properties, Trump embraced unorthodox strategies to expand his empire - (Unorthodox strategies. They must be pissed this story has no legs yet.)
Ryan predicts ‘big fight’ over Trump’s border wall, says he doesn’t know how it will be resolved - (No one knows but we know where WAPO will stand, don't we.)
Bernie Sanders plans nine-day blitz for Democratic candidates on midterm ballot - (What? ... Bernie Sanders doesn't plan nine-day blitz to recast Socialists candidates as Centrist?)
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Headline bias is a thing. Ever wonder how many readers get their news from the headline?
 
I took a look at WaPo, they have this story up about Swift:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...endorsement-democrats/?utm_term=.a92bec076c07

In scanning the article, a few terms appear: #MAGA, Instagram, sexual fantasy, systemic racism, homophobia, kitten-naming contest, neo-Nazi, Adolf Hitler, Daily Stormer, Christmas tree farm, alt-right incels, dieselnut, groping, MartianSpaceCat, and last but not least, Pepe the Frog.

Basically tabloid-class.
 
bubbabgone said:
This could be posted elsewhere but I chose the Bias In The Media forum because of the headline ... and because of other WAPO headlines today.
You can tell where a story is going by the headline.

Today's top WAPO headlines as sent to my INBOX ...

Republicans work to recast Democratic protests as out-of-control anarchy: ‘An angry mob’: (They were mobs. They were angry. There were arrests. No one stopped them from roaming the halls. They stopped elevators. They shouted down speakers at hearings. They were paid. But they weren't "recast" as an angry mob. They were an angry mob. An angry mob organized by paid professionals to direct paid players and others there to vent and claw at the doors to the Supreme Court.)
President Trump, ‘angry mobs’ and ‘very fine people’ - The Fix • Analysis -(this one is accompanied by a picture of a tiki torch march)
Trump stokes tensions over Kavanaugh confirmation battle - (WAPO is pissed Trump apologized to The Kavanaugh family.)
Pack the Supreme Court? Why we may be getting closer. - The Fix • Analysis - (WAPO has Fingers crossed, amiright?)
Susan Collins’s wrong claim on Planned Parenthood and Supreme Court justices - Fact Checker • Analysis - (It's Kessler, waddyagonnado)
McConnell signals he would push to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 despite 2016 example - (And they don't like it one bit)
Amid Kavanaugh uproar, changes to Congress’s sexual harassment rules stall - (Get the message?)
Trump says he likes Taylor Swift’s music ‘25 percent less’ after midterm endorsements - (That's certainly an important story)
President says he is ‘concerned’ about missing Saudi journalist - (He shouldn't be concerned? Oooooh, the single quotes printed around the word because no one can see air-quotes ... I get it now)
After selling off his father’s properties, Trump embraced unorthodox strategies to expand his empire - (Unorthodox strategies. They must be pissed this story has no legs yet.)
Ryan predicts ‘big fight’ over Trump’s border wall, says he doesn’t know how it will be resolved - (No one knows but we know where WAPO will stand, don't we.)
Bernie Sanders plans nine-day blitz for Democratic candidates on midterm ballot - (What? ... Bernie Sanders doesn't plan nine-day blitz to recast Socialists candidates as Centrist?)
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Headline bias is a thing. Ever wonder how many readers get their news from the headline?
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It's an old, old trick.

For them, story isn't that the protesters were pounding on the doors of the Supreme Court trying to get in, or screaming in the Senate chamber trying to disrupt the vote, or accosting people in elevators, or any of that stuff. The story is that Republicans are criticizing it.
 
bubbabgone said:
This could be posted elsewhere but I chose the Bias In The Media forum because of the headline ... and because of other WAPO headlines today.
You can tell where a story is going by the headline.

Today's top WAPO headlines as sent to my INBOX ...

Republicans work to recast Democratic protests as out-of-control anarchy: ‘An angry mob’: (They were mobs. They were angry. There were arrests. No one stopped them from roaming the halls. They stopped elevators. They shouted down speakers at hearings. They were paid. But they weren't "recast" as an angry mob. They were an angry mob. An angry mob organized by paid professionals to direct paid players and others there to vent and claw at the doors to the Supreme Court.)
President Trump, ‘angry mobs’ and ‘very fine people’ - The Fix • Analysis -(this one is accompanied by a picture of a tiki torch march)
Trump stokes tensions over Kavanaugh confirmation battle - (WAPO is pissed Trump apologized to The Kavanaugh family.)
Pack the Supreme Court? Why we may be getting closer. - The Fix • Analysis - (WAPO has Fingers crossed, amiright?)
Susan Collins’s wrong claim on Planned Parenthood and Supreme Court justices - Fact Checker • Analysis - (It's Kessler, waddyagonnado)
McConnell signals he would push to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 despite 2016 example - (And they don't like it one bit)
Amid Kavanaugh uproar, changes to Congress’s sexual harassment rules stall - (Get the message?)
Trump says he likes Taylor Swift’s music ‘25 percent less’ after midterm endorsements - (That's certainly an important story)
President says he is ‘concerned’ about missing Saudi journalist - (He shouldn't be concerned? Oooooh, the single quotes printed around the word because no one can see air-quotes ... I get it now)
After selling off his father’s properties, Trump embraced unorthodox strategies to expand his empire - (Unorthodox strategies. They must be pissed this story has no legs yet.)
Ryan predicts ‘big fight’ over Trump’s border wall, says he doesn’t know how it will be resolved - (No one knows but we know where WAPO will stand, don't we.)
Bernie Sanders plans nine-day blitz for Democratic candidates on midterm ballot - (What? ... Bernie Sanders doesn't plan nine-day blitz to recast Socialists candidates as Centrist?)
​

Headline bias is a thing. Ever wonder how many readers get their news from the headline?
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Those are ‘news’ headlines, rather than titles of opinion columns?
 
mpg said:
Those are ‘news’ headlines, rather than titles of opinion columns?
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No, some were clearly marked “analysis,” meaning they cover someone’s opinions of the significance of events referred to. The others were straightforward factual headlines.

Paranoia strikes deep.
 
mpg said:
Those are ‘news’ headlines, rather than titles of opinion columns?
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They are WAPO news headlines ... allegedly not opinion columns.
Except for Kessler's fact-checker ... don't get me started on Kessler.
 
bubbabgone said:
Headline bias is a thing. Ever wonder how many readers get their news from the headline?
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Ever think that maybe "YOU" should?

But thanks for the rant.
 
Nickyjo said:
No, some were clearly marked “analysis,” meaning they cover someone’s opinions of the significance of events referred to.
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You might think so but nooooo. There's a whole nuther section of the website with a whole nuther set of writers for opinion. That's where they really let the loons take over unmolested.
Those were opinion disguised as news analysis. Readers, you see, are not capable of doing their own analysis if they're presented with the facts.

The others were straightforward factual headlines.
Paranoia strikes deep.
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Bias strikes deeper.
Trump stokes tensions and Republicans recast protests as angry mobs?
 
Rickeroo said:
I took a look at WaPo, they have this story up about Swift:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...endorsement-democrats/?utm_term=.a92bec076c07

In scanning the article, a few terms appear: #MAGA, Instagram, sexual fantasy, systemic racism, homophobia, kitten-naming contest, neo-Nazi, Adolf Hitler, Daily Stormer, Christmas tree farm, alt-right incels, dieselnut, groping, MartianSpaceCat, and last but not least, Pepe the Frog.

Basically tabloid-class.
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Aww poor baby. You got butt hurt by a pop star. Don't worry Chachi still loves you.
 
bubbabgone said:
You might think so but nooooo. There's a whole nuther section of the website with a whole nuther set of writers for opinion. That's where they really let the loons take over unmolested.
Those were opinion disguised as news analysis. Readers, you see, are not capable of doing their own analysis if they're presented with the facts.


Bias strikes deeper.
Trump stokes tensions and Republicans recast protests as angry mobs?
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By definition analysis means the examination of something to determine its meaning. How you keep opinions from creeping in from any examination is beyond me.
 
bubbabgone said:
You might think so but nooooo. There's a whole nuther section of the website with a whole nuther set of writers for opinion. That's where they really let the loons take over unmolested.
Those were opinion disguised as news analysis. Readers, you see, are not capable of doing their own analysis if they're presented with the facts.


Bias strikes deeper.
Trump stokes tensions and Republicans recast protests as angry mobs?
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Do you think the president’s comments, unlike Kavanaugh’s conciliatory ones, stoked tension and division. Seems that what it was about. Pretty obvious difference, plus a falsehood here or there.

Did republicans call protestors angry mobs and ignore what they were concerned about? Seems obvious. As Trump might say, there were good people on both sides.

The headlines reflected reality. Send your complaints to Donald “Mexican Migrants are Rapisrs” Trump and tell him to stop dividing us.
 
bubbabgone said:
No. I never think reading a headline is enough.
That's what you do?
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If you only knew...

However, reading a headline through biased eyes, as you did in this case, is equally as limiting.
 
Nickyjo said:
By definition analysis means the examination of something to determine its meaning. How you keep opinions from creeping in from any examination is beyond me.
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You can do a deeper examination of items in the news without inserting your own opinion.
When you do that it can be called analysis.
When you do insert your own opinion you're an opinion writer and it gets put in the Opinion section.
None of those headlines were from the Opinion section.
Don't get me wrong, the whole point was that opinions are all over WAPO news stories and it can start in the headlines.
 
Nickyjo said:
Do you think the president’s comments, unlike Kavanaugh’s conciliatory ones, stoked tension and division. Seems that what it was about. Pretty obvious difference, plus a falsehood here or there.

Did republicans call protestors angry mobs and ignore what they were concerned about? Seems obvious. As Trump might say, there were good people on both sides.

The headlines reflected reality. Send your complaints to Donald “Mexican Migrants are Rapisrs” Trump and tell him to stop dividing us.
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Cool.
You just demonstrated what can happen when someone (in this case ... you) never gets past the headlines they read ... or what they've heard someone else say.
This has worked out better than I imagined.
 
It's the handiwork of the Brander-in-Chief. He appropriated MAGA from 41, dog whistles from white nationals and nativists. That he trolls using his twitter account with virulent hashtags, brands our most sacred rights to assemble and malign the Free Press, his rallies reminiscent of despots and incites his crowds to join into his hate fests should be an obvious sign that he has succeeded in dividing our citizenry.


Calling those who disagree with him "angry mobs" and the GOP Senate and House leadership and members taking up the phrase shows that they are scared. And dangerous.
 
noonereal said:
If you only knew...
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That's why I asked.

However, reading a headline through biased eyes, as you did in this case, is equally as limiting.
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Your eyes didn't see bias in the wording of "Republicans work to recast Democratic protests as out-of-control anarchy: ‘An angry mob’: "
I don't know why not ... if I only knew.
 
bubbabgone said:
That's why I asked.



Your eyes didn't see bias in the wording of "Republicans work to recast Democratic protests as out-of-control anarchy: ‘An angry mob’: "
I don't know why not ... if I only knew.
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Bias would be ignoring the fact that the GOP is falsely creating a narrative that Dem protesters are an out of control angry mob or worse yet, like on Fox, promoting this false narrative.
 
:lamo

Ain't no one "recasting"

:lamo

They are an out of control angry mob...

and with HRC explicitly promoting civil unrest, i.e. a continuation of the appalling, low rent, sub human behavior exhibited by the nihilistic death cult that is the Unthinking Left, you can believe that the anarchy will increase, and the out of control mob will not cease.

Things are only going to get worse. (for the Unthinking Left)
 
noonereal said:
Bias would be ignoring the fact that the GOP is falsely creating a narrative that Dem protesters are an out of control angry mob or worse yet, like on Fox, promoting this false narrative.
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So your answer is that you believe there was no bias contained in the wording of the headline "Republicans work to recast Democratic protests as out-of-control anarchy: ‘An angry mob’: "?
Is that right?

You never saw the videos of Angry mobs of protesters roaming the senate halls stopping elevators to corner Senators, shouting down speakers at hearings, organized by paid professionals to direct paid players and others to vent for the cameras and claw at the doors to the Supreme Court? You never saw that?
But you do have a point if it's that the anarchy wasn't really "out of control" and spontaneous like with your anitifa thugs. Maybe that's your point.
While it's well organized by paid pros and encouraged by sitting Congress people like Spartacus and Maxine, it's still anarchy and in their effort to build on the blue wave they blew it badly with this tactic.

Then again there have been out of control street attack episodes that didn't need organizing and the tactic that anything is justified all falls back on Dem shoulders.
Even poor sad sack Hillary is trying again to be relevant by endorsing it.
 
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