I'd say for practical purposes that "mainstream media" basically means anything that reaches your eyeballs or ears easily, meaning that you don't have to dig for it a bit. Thus mainstream media includes all the sources listed above, including Fox.Cortopassi wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 10:21 am What is the pejorative "mainstream" media? ABC, NBC, CBS, and I assume FOX and CNN as well?
Or is it whatever media that doesn't have your point of view?
I hate the discourse in this country lately.
Of course, as is well known, the problem with the mainstream media is that it's controlled by big business. The problem with that is that the interests of big business are generally unaligned with the interests of me, an upper middle class American. And how could they be aligned? Big business isn't even a person, except as a legal fiction. Really the only interest of big business is to make money. My interests as a human being are much wider than that. And even and especially in the sphere of money, big businesses interests are often unaligned with my interests.
All I'm saying is that we should all take essentially everything we hear from just about any news source with a huge grain of salt. Of course, we all know that, but then we get busy with our lives and sort of forget it, and before you know it we're commenting about some news story and hardly stopping to wonder whether what the story says is in fact correct and not hugely skewed. We may think, "Oh, this news story has little to do with something that big business is interested in, so therefore there's no reason to think that it could be biased," when in fact, if we thought about it a bit deeper, we would realize that big business does have an interest in that subject and the story very well may be biased.