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Jim Wright
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US media reports "US satellite captures images of new Chinese military blimp at remote base..."
Except the picture posted with the story is of US Navy Sailors on the deck of a US Navy LCAC hovercraft, likely at the LCAC base just north of San Diego.
It's mentioned in the article, BUT NOT THE SOCIAL MEDIA POST
KNOWING that most people get their "news" from sound bites and social media posts and don't read the article or attribution, posts like The Hill's are a big part of the problem.
This being the point of my comment.

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Both parties trust the Weather Channel ... and that’s about it

The good news, such as it is, is that trust in news outlets increased across the board in YouGov’s national polling this year relative to 2022. It’s not entirely clear why: maybe it’s a function of increased trust or maybe it’s something about how the data was collected. But, still, in an era where trust in the media is near a nadir, who are we to rush to dismiss movement in the other direction?

Which brings us to the bad news. The media outlet that has the most robustly positive perception among the American public is the one that is most explicitly and structurally apolitical: the Weather Channel. On pretty much everything else, the pattern is heavily saturated with partisanship — like most other things in America.

According to the new data, the Weather Channel is viewed with more trust than distrust by a 53-point margin among Americans. The next most-trusted outlet on net is PBS, which has a 30-point advantage on trustworthiness. But less than half of respondents overall said they found PBS trustworthy or very trustworthy.

Partisanship also comes into play with PBS. The Weather Channel is trusted by most Democrats and most Republicans. But PBS is viewed as trustworthy by two-thirds of Democrats and only one-third of Republicans. Why? Oklahoma offers some indications: There, Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) has attacked PBS for “overly sexualiz[ing] or indoctrinat[ing] children” — his office citing the fact that the show “Clifford the Big Red Dog” showed a lesbian couple as evidence of this effect.

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HawaiiDelilah™ 🟦 @HawaiiDelilah wrote: Yes, Joe Biden loves his only surviving son who had some problems & is trying to turn it around, & who is not involved in the governing of this country. But apparently loving your son too much is worthy of the newspaper of record.

P.S. The phrase "in your face" is just...nasty

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt wrote: In the nation’s capital, where such things are rarely accidental and always noticed, Hunter BIden's appearances at a state dinner and Camp David came across as an in-your-face message of defiance by a president determined to show that he stands by his son. https://nytimes.com/2023/06/27/us/polit ... crats.html

RVInit wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 9:11 am Here we go again. Just like 2016. Media is all Trump all the time. And not a single other Republican running for President is getting airtime.