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Comment Re:Trump Trying to Silence CNN (Score 1) 173

I just searched "trump coverage positive vs negative" on startpage.
(Note the effort to make search terms steelman the opponent's position rather than my own by listing his position first, and then usage of anonymizer to reduce bias from search history).

Then clicked on the first link.

You can do the same, and click on the rest of the links. Overwhelming majority of them give similar numbers.

Comment Re:Someone Ought to Stop It (Score 1) 173

What do you think happened to journalists who truthfully reported on Pakistani rape gangs in UK?

Saudis did their hit once. And have been desperate to demonstrate they got better since.

UK continues to aggressively prosecute anyone who dares to talk about what Pakistanis are doing to English right now. If anything, persecution is even more wide spread.

Comment Re:Someone Ought to Stop It (Score 1) 173

Going by the number of arrest for speech offenses in UK, yes by a massive margin.

Makes me wonder if you picked the nation with most arrests for speech on this planet by a massive margin on purpose because it's the kind of censorship program you approve of, or you genuinely didn't know.

Comment Re:Trump Trying to Silence CNN (Score 1) 173

You can use any of the couple dosen similar studies that all return similar numbers. Overwhelmingly negative coverage of Trump is a norm, has been a norm, and will likely persist as a norm.

Here's historic evidence from Pew:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewresearch.org%2Fjo...

Note the similar numbers. Only 5% positive for Trump.

This is really easy to individually comprehend too.

"What are five bad things Trump did. Are they talked about across mainstream right now and widely known on all sides of the spectrum?"

"What are five good things Trump did. Are they talked about across mainstream right now and widely known on all sides of the spectrum?"

Comment Re:Trump Trying to Silence CNN (Score 1) 173

Here's gold standard of such studies, Pew Research explaining why what you're asking for is unreasonable in their preamble of the old 2017 study:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewresearch.org%2Fjo...

They do in fact do a little bit better in terms of what they could gather and parse though, and results are even worse from "pro Trump propaganda", showing only 5% positive.

Comment Re:Someone Ought to Stop It (Score 1) 173

All nations and all peoples have plenty of "other qualities that make them highly unattractive for ownership of any news media in a Democratic nation".

Including all of "democratic nations".

Reminder: when your measuring stick returns same result of "has other qualities...", your measuring stick is unsuitable for purpose of determining what would a good fit.

Comment Re:Someone Ought to Stop It (Score 1) 173

I have bad news: values you listed are universally human. If that is your criteria for "partners", all humans are out.

For that matter, all life on this planet is out, because all life on this planet is motivated by greed and power. Because having a territory (power) from which you can gain nourishment (greed) is a prerequisite for everything else in life.

Comment Re:Trump Trying to Silence CNN (Score 1) 173

Imagine believing this when there are actual studies that show that Trump coverage is over 90% negative in US. For example, here's a recent one:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fabc3340.com%2Fnews%2Fnatio...

You're literally in the world that is diametrically opposed to reality.

Comment Re:Someone Ought to Stop It (Score 1) 173

Fun part: Saudi royal family has been trying to remove wahhabists for at least two decades at this point. If you want to see how serious they are, read up on their latest relaxing on alcohol sales in Saudi Arabia.

Current generation is desperate to get rid of the islamists. They're the single biggest threat to their rule. Most of the support is in the rank and file bureaucracy and citizenry, who are much less cosmopolitan than the rulers.

If you want to fight islamic extremism, Xers and Millenials among royals across all Gulf monarchies are pretty much your best allies. To them islamists are an existential threat.

Notably they have also been warning the West about this for a long time. Not just Saudis, but all major Gulf royalty and their immediate ruling aristocracy.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fshorts...

This is just the most famous moment. There are plenty of others, and these people have been pretty open about warning everyone else about the threat.

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