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Nsoper194y ago
I would say that this is mostly true. Personally I believe that 'left' and 'right' wing are meaningless, but for argument's sake I shall use the nebulous and popular understanding of them. Also I'm interpreting 'media' as mainly referring to News Media thought my points apply elsewhere as well. In the UK the majority of newspapers are 'right-wing' both in number and print volume. Newspapers account for a tiny fraction of all media today however. TV, Radio and Internet sources are overwhelmingly woke and left-biased. For instance if I Google 'newspaper', Google gives the first newspaper result as the The Guardian which is so lefty that it sounds more like a Student Union activist pamphlet than a news publication. It's the 11th most circulated newspaper in the UK yet google puts it first. I wonder why? lol The BBC buys 135 copies of the Guardian a day and is their 2nd most bought newspaper despite it being the public's 11th favourite? Sky, BBC, Channel 4 etc haven't shown anything with even remotely conservative views for about 20 years now. Notice how almost every news report is "calling on" government to get larger and take more control of citizens lives. If there is a news report about any issue the proposed solution will always be more state intervention and control. 'Scientists call on government to implement X' or 'Economists call on government to stop Y'. None of which is news as such it is just being a mouthpiece for invariably left-wing opinions. Someone proposing abortions or same-sex relationships is praised and fawned over without challenge despite the detriment to society they are advancing. Family values, hard-work and self-responsibility are treated with suspicion at best or outright hostility. The way Jordan Peterson was treated by Cathy Newman on Channel 4 has now become almost the quintessential display of this. The fact this woman still has a career in TV shows how entrenched this mindset is. There are a few sources of balanced or conservative opinion but they are few and far between. For now that is.
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